Biden administration officials announced Wednesday that they will reimpose punishing sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector, saying that the Maduro regime failed to uphold its commitments to hold free and fair elections. The Treasury Department had issued a six-month sanctions reprieve for Venezuela’s oil and gas sector last October. The authorization allowed the country’s […]
Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher has been accused of obstructing the investigation into him by bipartisan leaders of the state House Ethics Committee. Some state legislators claimed witnesses did not testify because they feared the Republican leader would retaliate and that others could not be reached because Plocher controls who testifies, according to the Missouri […]
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) criticized the White House on Wednesday for refusing to respond to the committee’s requests related to the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Comer reiterated his demands in a letter to White House counsel Richard Sauber, asking that Sauber notify him by next week if the White […]
The House passed a bill from Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) on Wednesday that prohibits the federal government from purchasing U.S. citizens’ data from third parties, a win for privacy hawks that brings an end to House Republicans’ uphill battle to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The bill, introduced by Davidson and House Judiciary Committee […]
A mother living in Fairfax County, Virginia, gave a passionate plea on Tuesday, calling on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors not to go ahead with its budget proposal to raise taxes and fees on residents. “Unlike the board who has received a 20% salary increase effective 2024, it is typical of citizens in Fairfax […]
Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) have both written letters to the Biden administration, calling for an investigation into Chinese-owned online retail sites Shein and Temu. Cotton argued that Temu, in particular, poses a similar risk to Americans as TikTok does. In their respective letters, the senators point to the two websites allegedly […]
A student at a North Carolina high school was suspended for three days for using the term “illegal alien” in class. Leah McGhee, the mother of a Central Davidson High School student, says her son’s teacher assigned various vocabulary words to students in English class last week, with one of the words being “alien.” Her […]
Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ) suffered a heart attack 11 days ago and has remained on a ventilator in the intensive care unit at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Payne has been hospitalized since April 6 and has not regained consciousness since his heart attack. The congressman’s condition is at odds with a previous update from […]
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is asking for a 5% cut of funds from candidates who fundraise off of his image and likeness. In a letter sent to Republican digital vendors, obtained by Politico, Trump campaign co-managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles requested the funds be sent to Trump National Committee JFC. All candidates or […]
A watchdog group is calling on the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for using video of House proceedings in the promotion of her election campaign. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust’s report highlighted four instances in which Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign social media account reposted videos of herself speaking on the […]
