Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced on Wednesday he will convene a special session of the Florida legislature in April to redistrict the state’s congressional map. DeSantis entered the national mid-decade redistricting battle in December, 2025, signaling he intended to redistrict, but would begin the process after the Supreme Court weighs in on race-based congressional districting laws. In […]
(The Center Square) – Michigan’s unemployment rate once again dropped, but still remains one of the highest nationally. That comes as the national unemployment increased over the same period, from September to November. “Although the state lacked several key labor metrics for October, data for the two-month period from September to November revealed continued trends of […]
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin is expecting more people and higher costs from its Medicaid program in the coming year. The state’s Department of Health Services this week wrote a letter to lawmakers explaining that costs will be $213 million more than expected. “Several factors are contributing to the projected deficit,” Health Department Secretary-designee Kirsten […]
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized the recent operation in Venezuela because it did not “put the American people first.” Greene appeared on ABC News’s The View on Wednesday for her first television appearance since leaving Congress. As a self-proclaimed “MAGA Republican,” Greene speculated that most Americans don’t believe the “narrative” behind the Operation Absolute […]
A woman was shot dead on Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis while attempting to run over agents attempting to enforce immigration law, according to the Trump administration. The shooting came as anti-ICE activists swarmed the streets, attempting to block federal agents from conducting immigration enforcement activities, resulting in tear gas […]
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) engaged in a heated back-and-forth during the first hearing on the Minnesota fraud scandal on Wednesday after Lee accused Republicans of “cherry picking” the state’s massive fraud scandal over other instances of fraud in the nation. Lee, while questioning former special counsel Brendan Ballou, […]
The U.K. military provided “enabling support” to the United States in its seizure of a sanctioned oil tanker registered in Russia, British officials said on Wednesday. The Marinera tanker, originally known as the Bella 1, was intercepted in the joint U.S.-U.K. operation after a two-week pursuit. The British Armed Forces provided “pre-planned operational support” to […]
As Venezuela‘s former dictator Nicolás Maduro left his country, captured by U.S. military forces, Maduro’s cabinet and regime officials made it out of the operation largely unscathed, still holding onto their positions of power. President Donald Trump has opted to work with Maduro’s former vice president Delcy Rodríguez, whom the Venezuelan Supreme Court tapped to […]
President Donald Trump‘s State of the Union address is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 24 House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on Wednesday that they are still considering alternative dates and working with the White House on final plans, but the end of February is most likely. The State of the Union is the address a […]
Top Los Angeles officials edited a public report on the city’s response to deadly fires that burned through Pacific Palisades to paint their handling of the crisis in a more favorable light. Multiple drafts of the report assessing the city’s handling of the fires were “edited to soften language and reduce explicit criticism of department […]
