Actor Matthew McConaughey has reflected on the last 10 years of living in Texas, praising the Lone Star State’s “hospitality” since leaving California. The Interstellar actor revealed that he and his wife, Camila Alves, decided to move to Texas after a family emergency required them to visit his mother, Kay. “Time slowed down,” McConaughey said […]
Prominent Democratic economics advisers are arguing that the Biden administration and Congress must revamp rules regarding drug price negotiation to lower the price of new wonder drugs for obesity, such as Ozempic, or run the risk of bankrupting the federal government. “The magnitude of potential benefit and potential cost … posed by these drugs suggests […]
An extensive Himalayan art collection that belonged to the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum, is set to be auctioned off on March 20 in New York. “Accumulated over a 30-year period, the 42 works on offer worth more than $3 million from the prominent couple’s collection are representative of the […]
In his third State of the Union address, President Joe Biden on Thursday evening railed against so-called dark money. Biden, before a joint session of Congress, urged lawmakers to pass legislation that Democrats say would make it easier to vote in elections. Almost 60 years after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the […]
Former President Donald Trump met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday, an unconventional move since Orban did not meet with President Joe Biden during the trip. Trump’s presidential campaign claimed the pair met to discuss a “wide range of issues affecting Hungary and the United States, including the paramount […]
Three people were killed and one other person was injured in a National Guard helicopter crash in Texas on Friday, according to a statement from the Defense Department’s joint task force. The crash occurred near the small border town of La Grulla, Texas, in East Starr County, according to Lt. Chris Olivarez with the Texas […]
A U.S. district judge in Texas rejected a challenge from Republican states on Friday against a Biden administration policy that sponsored thousands of immigrants each month. Judge Drew Tipton argued that the 21 states, led by Texas, failed to prove that the program, which allows up to 30,000 immigrants a month to enter the country, […]
President Joe Biden garnered an audience for his Thursday State of the Union speech that was 18% bigger than last year’s. Nielson’s Ratings released Friday revealed 32.2 million viewers tuned in to listen to the president’s speech. This was a 5 million person increase from the year before across all 14 television networks, including cable. […]
GOP lawmakers are defending the Gold Star father arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday for heckling President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address. Police say that Steve Nikoui, 51, was arrested for violating the D.C. Code after continuing to yell at the president despite officers warning him to stop. His son, […]
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled in favor of the Texas law requiring age verification for online pornography sites. The 2-1 decision lifted an injunction against HB 1181 that has been in effect since August. Pornhub and the adult industry group Free Speech Coalition challenged the legislation in court to slow […]
