President Joe Biden will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, next month after promising to visit the community devastated by an environmental disaster caused by a toxic train derailment a year ago. Biden was widely criticized for traveling to Ukraine when residents of the village, near Ohio’s border with Pennsylvania, were forced to relocate after the […]
John Angelos and the owning family of the Baltimore Orioles have purportedly reached an agreement to sell the team to a group led by billionaire David Rubenstein. The price of the deal is approximated to be close to $1.725 billion, and Rubenstein, himself a Baltimore native, will serve as the new controlling owner, according to […]
EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-OR) will vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when articles come to the House floor as early as next week. Bentz, who initially voted in November to refer a resolution to impeach Mayorkas to the Homeland Security Committee along with seven other Republicans, now believes there is enough […]
Eric Schwerin, a longtime business associate of the Biden family, testified to Congress on Tuesday about the free financial services he provided several years ago to then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to sources familiar with the testimony. Schwerin told lawmakers in a closed-door interview that he performed bookkeeping, bill paying, tax preparation, and other financial […]
A former Trump administration official is in critical condition after being shot during a carjacking in Washington, D.C., on Monday night, as the city is dealing with a spike in crime rates. Mike Gill, who worked for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the Trump administration, was the first victim of the hourslong carjacking spree […]
The House is set Wednesday to consider a major bipartisan proposal that would expand the child tax credit and renew key business investment deductions. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) added consideration of the legislation, H.R. 7024, the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act, to the schedule for Wednesday. The floor vote was highly anticipated and […]
A voting rights group founded by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is drastically cutting back and laying off staff amid significant debt as contributions fall. Fair Fight was started in 2018 to advocate less restrictive voting laws, particularly in the court system. The group’s previous CEO, Lauren Groh-Wargo, who left to manage Abrams’s second […]
EXCLUSIVE — A South Dakota state legislator is taking aim at a key argument in favor of legal abortion by combatting misinterpretation and confusion of the state’s restrictions on abortion. Republican state Rep. Taylor Rehfeldt, who holds a doctorate in nursing and practiced as a nurse anesthetist until she took office in 2021, introduced the […]
Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee pushed forward two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas early Wednesday morning, setting up a full House vote on the matter. The GOP has called for Mayorkas’s impeachment for months, alleging he has neglected his duty to secure the southern border, but impeaching the head […]
(The Center Square) – A group of Democratic senators is calling on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates as a way of addressing housing affordability. U.S. Sens. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., sent a letter to Chair Jerome Powell on Monday, just before the Fed is scheduled to meet on […]
