The Biden administration has set new federal standards for cutting emissions, creating tax credits and subsidies for electric vehicles, and investing billions in swing states to boost EV manufacturing. Former President Donald Trump is taking a different approach to the technology. Trump is raising concerns that the EV push will boost manufacturing for Chinese companies […]
President Joe Biden greenlighted about $1 trillion toward tax credits, grants, and loans for clean energy when he signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. While the 2022 law was popular among U.S. voters at the time, many aren’t seeing the value of Biden’s green spending spree. In light of poor economic polling figures, the […]
The House will postpone its plans to send articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate after concerns from Republican senators that Democrats would push to table a trial if brought to the floor too soon. After a request from a group of GOP senators on Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson […]
The first of April’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest income earners who retire at 70, will go out to a group of retirees in just one day. The payment will go out on Wednesday, April 10, to beneficiaries who were born on or before the 10th of the month, […]
The Maryland congressional delegation said it expects to introduce bipartisan legislation to include federal funding to rebuild the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge during a joint press conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Sens. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) stood alongside the rest of the congressional delegation and with Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) and […]
San Francisco, projected to have a billion-dollar deficit by 2027, has left millions in revenue on the table over the past decade because law enforcement has been forced to cut back on the number of traffic citations they issue, which has dropped a staggering 96%, according to a new analysis. The decision to stop focusing […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has suffered a series of indignities to get in Donald Trump’s good graces. In fact, his transformation from unapologetic critic to sharp-elbowed booster of the former president is one of the most dramatic in American politics. Yet a Monday spat between the two, in which Trump laid into the senator for […]
James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of Ethan Crumbley, who killed four students and shot seven others at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021, were sentenced to 10-15 years in prison. In separate trials, the Crumbleys were charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. Each charge of involuntary manslaughter faces a punishment of up to […]
President Joe Biden condemned the Arizona Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday that upheld an 1864 law banning most abortions in the state. The law only makes exceptions for abortions in which the mother faces immediate life-threatening conditions while mandating a prison sentence of between two and five years for a healthcare provider who performs the procedure unlawfully. “Millions of […]
There are just over three weeks until the first of two May Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $943 for individual filers, goes out to millions of beneficiaries. The first installment will go out in 22 days, on May 1, to people with a serious debilitating disability that results in a limited income, according […]
