British oil major Shell indefinitely suspended all its shipments through the Red Sea on Tuesday, following in the steps of other shipping giants who have paused or rerouted operations away from the Suez Canal amid strikes by Houthi militants. Shell’s decision, reported by the Wall Street Journal, cites unnamed individuals who said the decision was […]
North Carolina residents who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are set to receive their payments over the next five days before the program wraps up for January. SNAP benefits are sent out to North Carolina residents from Jan. 3 to Jan. 21 on odd days. Food stamps are allocated based on the final digit […]
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider a dispute surrounding an Indiana transgender student’s bid to use preferred bathrooms on Tuesday, leaving in place an appeals court ruling favoring the student. The Metropolitan School District of Martinsville asked the justices to conclude that there should be no requirement to allow transgender students to use bathrooms […]
Former President Donald Trump sailed to victory in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, but a surrogate for President Joe Biden‘s campaign was also celebrating the result. Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) claimed on MSNBC on Monday that Trump winning 51% but also losing nearly half of the Republican base shows his weakness and argued that it […]
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry appeared to lose his temper Tuesday after he was confronted about the size of his carbon footprint at the World Economic Forum. “What’s the carbon footprint of these events every single year that you come here?” a reporter asked Kerry while the former secretary of state and ex-presidential […]
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson suspended his 2024 presidential campaign Tuesday morning, just one day after the Iowa caucuses, in which he garnered 0.2% support and finished in sixth place. “My message of being a principled Republican with experience and telling the truth about the current front-runner did not sell in Iowa,” he said in […]
A top defense lawyer involved in over 50 cases stemming from the January 6 Capitol riots said the Justice Department is overreaching in its prosecution of some 1,300 cases on Tuesday, many against bystanders. Kira Anne West, who volunteered to defend dozens of suspects, said in an interview that cases Justice would typically handle as […]
Former President Donald Trump won all but one of Iowa’s 99 counties during Monday night’s caucuses, with a single vote in Johnson County blocking Trump from a clean sweep of the Hawkeye State. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley won Johnson County by 1,271 votes, just one more than Trump’s 1,270, according to results from the […]
You can tell why President Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination through a simple glance at the RealClearPolitics 2024 Republican presidential nomination poll average chart. It shows Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) steadily gaining support right up until the end of March. At that point, DeSantis was in striking distance of Trump, 30% to 45%. But […]
(The Center Square) — The Virginia Senate Education and Health Committee recommends legislation to boost teacher pay, following the committee’s first meeting of the 2024 legislative session. SB 104, sponsored by longtime senator and committee member Sen. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, would deeply impact teachers’ livelihoods in the commonwealth and require an ongoing commitment from the state. […]
