New York Democrats in the state’s Senate rejected a bipartisan congressional map on Monday, setting up the opportunity to redraw House districts that could give Democrats control of Congress. On the New York Senate floor, Democrats criticized the maps for splitting counties. The party will now have the opportunity to draw their own lines, but […]
Talk show host Phil McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, resisted The View co-hosts’ defense of school shutdowns during the coronavirus. While discussing the increase in mental health struggles among youth in recent years due to a greater reliance on media connectivity, McGraw pointedly noted that the “mismanagement of COVID” has only caused greater spikes […]
Harris County, Texas, officials will have alerted which low-income applicants have been chosen for its pilot basic income program by Monday. The Uplift Harris program received roughly 83,000 applicants, officials announced earlier this month, and the county would notify all those selected to participate in the pilot program through Monday, according to the Houston Chronicle. To be eligible for the pilot […]
California’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which issues benefits to low-income households, will be sent out for March in four days. The SNAP program began issuing payments on the 1st of the month and will continue until the 10th. Payments are distributed to qualified low-income households depending on recipients’ case numbers. For example, California recipients with case numbers ending […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling amounts to “empty threats,” Poland’s top diplomat argued during an appeal for Congress to authorize new aid to Ukraine. “If he was to use these [nuclear] weapons, he would have to withdraw his troops from the front line, and the Ukrainians could take advantage of that,” Polish Foreign Minister […]
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) is reconsidering his decision to retire after the end of his term, a source familiar confirmed to the Washington Examiner. Green is reconsidering whether to step down from office less than two weeks after the Tennessee Republican announced he would not seek a fourth term in office. […]
President Joe Biden said Monday that he hoped that Israel and Hamas could agree to a new ceasefire deal by the end of the coming weekend. The United States, Egypt, and Qatar have continued to broker conversations between Israel and the terrorist group in recent weeks and months. Biden himself has come under increasing domestic […]
A group of California veterans calling themselves “Border Vets” are trying to do their part to fix the immigration crisis by filling gaps in the border with razor wire to prevent immigrants from illegally entering the United States. The group helps install metal stakes to fix razor wire in sealing the border in the Jacumba […]
A member of the Republican National Committee who circulated two draft resolutions opposing picking up former President Donald Trump’s legal bills said the organization’s job is to win elections. “We should spend our finite resources on political operations and actually winning elections, and paying any candidate’s legal fees — or frankly, any other outside fees […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took to the Senate floor late Monday afternoon, calling on their colleagues to work together to pass funding bills for several key government agencies before a Friday deadline to prevent a government shutdown. Funding for the departments of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, […]
