Republican senators slammed Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) call to crack down on the Zyn nicotine pouch, saying the possible health concerns dwarf the hazards of fentanyl trafficking at the southern border. Schumer urged the Federal Trade Commission and Food and Drug Administration over the weekend to investigate the health effects and marketing of the […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) shared a Taylor Swift-themed social media post to promote her sixth State of the State address on Wednesday, and both praise and disdain poured in to react to the message. “Are you ready for it? Join me live tonight at 7pm for Michigan’s 2024 State of the State address,” the governor […]
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley relished being home in South Carolina on Wednesday, taking fresh digs at former President Donald Trump one day after her second-place finish in New Hampshire‘s 2024 Republican primary. Haley, a former two-term governor, tailored her remarks to the more familiar crowd, relative to her audiences in the other GOP early […]
A high-speed passenger train plan connecting Las Vegas and Southern California came one step closer to reality with support from the Biden administration on Tuesday. The Department of Transportation approved $2.5 billion in tax-exempt bonds for Brightline West to build the $12 billion Brightline West Passenger Rail project. The DOT allowed Brightline West to receive […]
Colorado low-income residents will receive their February payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in eight days. SNAP households will receive food stamps from Feb. 1 through Feb. 10 in the Centennial State. Those who join the program after Feb. 10 can still receive benefits for the month and will not need to wait until March. Benefits are distributed […]
The Washington Examiner’s Sarah Bedford suggested voters’ concerns regarding the ages of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump don’t compare. While appearing on Your World with Neil Cavuto, Bedford said there is a marked difference between how voters perceive the cognitive ability of Biden, 81, versus that of Trump, 77. “I don’t think […]
Every Alaska household collecting benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will receive their February payments in eight days. Alaska sends payments to every SNAP-participating household, regardless of case number or last name, on the 1st of each month. North Dakota, Rhode Island, and Vermont also send out all payments on Feb. 1. In the Last Frontier State, households are split into three […]
New information about the House Ethics Committee’s investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was revealed on Wednesday after the committee reportedly reached out to a woman the congressman allegedly had sexual relations with when she was a minor. The GOP-led committee contacted a woman who allegedly had sex with Gaetz when she was 17 years […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov predicted that Ukraine would resist Donald Trump’s insistence on ending the war with Russia in the event that the former president returns to the White House. “Time will tell,” Lavrov told reporters at the United Nations. “I doubt that the Ukrainians will be prepared to agree to any kind of settlement.” […]
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against an Alabama inmate’s eleventh-hour request to halt his execution by nitrogen hypoxia, the first time the method would be used, calling it cruel and unusual punishment. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted of stabbing a woman to death in 1988 in a murder-for-hire scheme, will be executed Thursday […]
