A House panel’s Wednesday vote to approve articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas brings Republicans one step closer to deposing President Joe Biden’s border chief. Shortly after midnight, the Republican-controlled committee approved two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas by a party-line vote of 18-15. The articles charge Mayorkas with willful and systemic […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) addressed his colleagues in lengthy remarks on Wednesday, accusing President Joe Biden of maintaining a “deliberately opened” border that has caused record-high immigration numbers. In his first floor speech since being elected speaker, Johnson railed against the Biden administration’s handling of the southern border, calling on the president to use […]
President Joe Biden is optimistic about his odds in Florida, former President Donald Trump‘s home state, even as Democrats have floundered there in recent elections. Biden touted the urgency to win races up and down the ballot in November at a campaign reception on Tuesday at the Pelican Club in Jupiter, Florida. He also joked […]
Former President Donald Trump won’t appear on Nevada’s 2024 GOP primary ballot, choosing to stand with the state GOP’s caucus, where delegates will be awarded. Down to a two-person race ahead of next week’s presidential nominating contest, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley will be on the primary ballot but left off the caucus. Nevada’s dueling […]
President Joe Biden is facing a possible mutiny among progressive Democrats in Congress, who are threatening him over a major border deal. Tensions between progressive Democrats and Biden, along with his more centrist Democratic allies in Congress, escalated dramatically in October when the party split over stances on the Israel-Hamas war. Tensions are poised to […]
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it would hold its interest rate target steady, a pause ahead of an expected move this year to lower rates in reaction to signs that inflation is cooling. Following a two-day meeting of its monetary policy committee in Washington, D.C., the Fed announced that it will keep its rate target […]
Maryland lawmakers are set to hold a hearing on Wednesday on legislation that would prohibit the participation of biological males in girls sports throughout schools in the state. Known as the Fairness in Girls’ Sports Act, the legislation has at least 17 sponsors in the Maryland General Assembly and would require “certain interscholastic and intramural […]
President Joe Biden is prepared to veto a Senate resolution that would repeal the administration’s rule compelling public companies to make certain cybersecurity disclosures. If passed, the resolution, introduced by Sen. Tom Tillis (R-NC), would rescind the Securities and Exchange Commission rule, which covers cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosures, after it was […]
A trucking convoy traveling across the United States is seeking people upset over the influx of illegal immigrants entering the country to join its protest, with the southern border as the destination. The Take Our Border Back convoy is a two-week demonstration organized by the self-proclaimed “God’s Army,” coming from across the U.S. The convoy […]
A judge in Dane County ordered the Wisconsin Elections Commission to vote on regulations regarding the acceptance of absentee ballots missing witness address information, which, if passed, could result in more ballots being counted in the 2024 election. Wisconsin law requires every absentee ballot to be signed by an adult witness, which opposers argued violates […]
