Surfing retailer Rip Curl has wiped posts on its social media pages that featured a transgender woman after receiving criticism from followers. Rip Curl, a company known for selling swimming clothes and surf gear, had uploaded photos featuring Sasha Lowerson, a transgender surfer, on its social media sites on Thursday. However, the photos have since […]
Washington drivers will receive a $100 fine if they drive, park, stand, or stop illegally in bus lanes starting Monday. The new fine is the second phase in the District Department of Transportation’s and Washington Metro’s Clear Lanes program, which hopes to decrease travel times for Metrobuses by ensuring that bus lanes remain clear. The […]
EXCLUSIVE — A new congressional proposal would prohibit federal dollars from being directed to a Hamas-linked United Nations agency dishing out Palestinian aid. The State Department revealed Friday it paused funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency and is reviewing allegations that 12 of the office’s employees may have participated in the Hamas-led Oct. […]
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — President Joe Biden‘s recent campaigning in South Carolina saw him meet repeatedly with black churchgoers in the Columbia area, foreshadowing a clear effort by the president’s team to leverage religion in contrasting Biden with former President Donald Trump. Biden, who is a Catholic, attends Mass weekly and routinely discusses how his faith […]
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling on Monday instructing a lower court to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of a decades-old state law barring the use of Medicaid dollars for abortion costs. The 3-2 decision overturns the lower court’s ruling to dismiss the complicated case and upends a 1985 precedent in which the […]
A judge grilled a Department of Justice prosecutor on Monday over why the government charged Charles Littlejohn with just one count of unauthorized disclosure of taxes after Littlejohn admitted to leaking the private information of more than a thousand taxpayers to the media in 2020. “The fact that he is facing one felony count, I […]
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, once a 15-year-old gold medal phenom, was announced on Monday to be disqualified from the 2022 Beijing Olympics figure skating competition after having been found guilty of an anti-doping violation by Switzerland’s Court of Arbitration for Sport. Valieva will be banned from Olympic competitions for four years, backdating to Dec. […]
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed on Monday that President Joe Biden has “blood on his hands” after a Saturday night attack in Iran killed three U.S. troops and injured 34 others. The Iran attack was conducted by an Iraqi militia that is supported by Tehran, according to Biden, and has resulted in multiple Republican lawmakers, including […]
A retired judge who heard arguments about whether former President Donald Trump should be allowed on the Illinois primary ballot sided with a group’s allegations that he took part in an insurrection on Jan. 6, according to a decision that will be considered by state officials this week. The Illinois State Board of Elections is […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he would focus on telling voters about the “extraordinary successes” of President Joe Biden’s administration if he was in the president’s shoes. The California governor claimed Biden had “the best three-year record” of any modern president, and that Democratic and independent voters needed to be more aware of those successes […]
