Vice President Kamala Harris has a daunting challenge ahead with former President Donald Trump facing her in this year’s election. In the past, she has had the support of many Democratic power brokers and figures in her forays into electoral politics. She has hand-picked every person in her inner circle she will find useful for […]
(The Center Square) – Illinois took center stage in national politics this week after former President Donald Trump made comments about Vice President Kamala Harris’ race. Trump made headlines for comments about Harris in Chicago with the National Association of Black Journalists Wednesday. “Because she was Indian all the way and then all of a […]
(The Center Square) – The Washington Association of School Administrators launched a new website last month that makes the case for increased state spending on K-12 education, even as the state’s public schools now spend $19,000 on average statewide for the education of each student, a dramatic rise over the pre-McCleary level of $10,000 per […]
(The Center Square) — The federal government cut its first check for a multi-state experiment to build a hydrogen-based manufacturing and energy hub in Appalachia, sending $30 million to ARCH2. The team behind the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub expects up to $925 million from the Department of Energy to spearhead development. “This federal funding […]
(The Center Square) – Including a bill supported by 148 of 157 lawmakers, three vetoes from North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper are in the process of being tested by the override process. The House of Representatives on Wednesday sent all three pieces of legislations to the Senate. The governor’s 102 vetoes are a state record, […]
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris greeted the U.S. citizens freed from Russia as they arrived back on American soil at Joint Base Andrews late Thursday night. The United States secured the release of 16 people from Russia on Thursday, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, […]
(The Center Square) – A low-oxygen “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico was larger than average and what was predicted, a recent survey found. The “dead zone” with little to no oxygen can kill fish and marine life is approximately 6,705 square miles, or 4 million acres, the 12th largest found in 38 years of […]
The economy added 114,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Investors had expected roughly 176,000 new jobs and for the unemployment rate to hold steady at 4.1%. This story is breaking and will be updated.
Melting down as the climate candidate The most significant pivot for Vice President Kamala Harris between her first and second presidential runs has been going cold on running as a climate warrior. As a long-shot candidate in 2019, Harris hitched her campaign wagon to the Left’s biggest climate policy ideas imaginable. Now that she’s unopposed […]
(The Center Square) — Virginia lawmakers Rep. Rob Wittman and Sen. Tim Kaine introduced legislation this week to fortify the U.S. against China’s growing influence. Wittman’s legislation, which he co-sponsored with Republican and Democratic representatives from Florida and Massachusetts, seeks to safeguard America’s ports from interference by the Chinese Communist Party for both economic and security […]
