(The Center Square) — Maine lobstermen are making a last-ditch push to scuttle a federal monitoring program seeking to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, lawyers for five lobstermen argue that new federal fisheries monitoring rules violate the Fourth and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. […]
(The Center Square) – Colorado health officials are taking public comments on the state’s plan to reduce PFAS chemicals. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment scheduled virtual meetings and will accept public comments to gain input on how the chemicals can be reduced. The chemicals are used to make coatings and products that resist heat, oil, stains, […]
BEIJING (AP) — China’s space agency said Wednesday that its latest lunar explorer had arrived at the launch site in preparation for a mission to the moon in the first half of this year. State broadcaster CCTV posted photos on its website of the unit under wraps as it was unloaded from a large cargo […]
If Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley are to thwart former President Donald Trump in the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses, they’ll have to win over key counties that Trump lost in his first White House run. Republican pollsters and political experts told the Washington Examiner that a possible pathway to stop Trump runs […]
President Joe Biden is on pace to outveto his recent predecessors. Biden has already issued nine vetoes during his presidency, on pace to best former President Donald Trump, who issued 10 during his four years in office, and Barack Obama, who signed 12 vetoes across two terms. Biden has issued more than two dozen veto […]
House Republicans concluded interviews with Anthony Fauci on Tuesday, saying the former White House COVID-19 policy adviser discussed weaknesses in the policies implemented on his watch during the pandemic and future preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks. “We found out a lot of things over the last couple of days,” Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on […]
The first Supplemental Security Income payment of 2024, worth up to $943 for individual filers, will go out to recipients in just over three weeks. The payment will be released on Feb. 1, and it marks the first payment of 2024 as no payment was issued in January. Recipients were given two payments in December […]
The first round of January Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for top earners who retire at 70, went out to the first group of retirees on Wednesday. Retired seniors born between the 1st and 10th of a month should receive their first payment of 2024 on Wednesday, Jan. 10. Those born on or […]
BETTENDORF, Iowa — Nikki Haley is the reason Julie Meyer is ready to change her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican before the Iowa caucuses. The 64-year-old voter from Bettendorf, a suburb of Davenport, said she’s been a lifelong Democrat, but this election is different. “Biden is getting too old. I’m not a Trump person, so she’s next in […]
EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans are scrutinizing the tax-exempt status of four elite universities as part of a new investigation into the schools’ alleged “failure to adequately protect Jewish students from discrimination and harassment,” the Washington Examiner has learned. The investigation, which focuses on Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, and […]
