Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) is holding ground with independent voters against his Republican opponent, Tim Sheehy, in what’s expected to be a close race for Montana’s up-for-grabs Senate seat. The Democratic incumbent gathered support from 44% of independent voters compared to Sheehy’s 34% in the latest survey from Emerson College Polling and the Hill. Overall, […]
A panel of North Carolina superior court judges unanimously sided with Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) to strike down a law looking to strip his authority over appointing election boards in the state. The three-judge panel ruled the law passed by the Republican-led legislature last year was unlawful in that it attempted to override powers given […]
A Seattle-area sheriff has directed her police force not to implement a new City of Burien order on homeless encampments. The order outlaws homeless encampments within 500 feet of places like schools and parks. King County Sheriff Patti Cole-Tindall told deputies not to enforce the order until the constitutionality of the law was sorted. “We […]
Many libraries have been struggling to deal with the rising costs of e-books and audiobooks as the demand at local libraries has seen an uptick in recent years. Connecticut’s West Haven Public Library is one of many grappling with the high cost and demand for e-books. When a new book is released, a hardcover copy […]
It was a press conference President Joe Biden never should have given. On the same day the Justice Department released special counsel Robert Hur’s report concluding that Biden should not be prosecuted for illegally handling classified documents because a jury would find him to be “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Biden […]
Video platform Rumble has offered to partner with social media platform TikTok ahead of Congress moving forward with legislation that could ban the massively popular application. The legislation in question would require TikTok to divest completely from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or else get banned in the United States. The offer from Rumble, a […]
The cost to rebuild the scientific infrastructure destroyed during the first two years of Russia’s war with Ukraine will cost more than an estimated $1 billion, UNESCO reported Monday. UNESCO reported that 1,443 buildings and labs owned by 177 universities and organizations have been demolished or damaged by the war, and 750 parts of equipment […]
Republican Voters Against Trump launched a $50 million campaign spreading messages from voters who previously backed former President Donald Trump but say they never will again. The campaign features video testimonials from hundreds of former Trump voters and will be aired across various digital media platforms. The ads launched in the battleground states of Arizona, […]
Supporters of former President Donald Trump who organized an effort in Wisconsin to oust the State Assembly speaker did not gather enough signatures Tuesday to force a recall election, despite claiming they gathered more than required. Republicans are seeking to remove Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, also a Republican, for not decertifying President Joe Biden’s victory […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Four years after the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the world, a bicameral, bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a plan to ensure the United States would not be caught off-guard and rendered helpless at the mercy of a contagious disease. But health experts who track fungi and spoke at the SXSW Conference on Monday evening […]
