Vice President Kamala Harris‘s vow to create a carve-out for the filibuster to pass abortion legislation has cost her support from Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV). Manchin, a centrist senator who has fought to maintain the filibuster, had been indicating he may support Harris’s bid for president after he left the Democratic Party earlier this year, […]

Former President Donald Trump appears to be riding off the backs of ticket splitters in Arizona, according to a major poll released Monday.  Ticket splitting, a phenomenon where voters support one party’s candidate for president and the other’s for Congress, could change the game this November in the battleground state. The latest New York Times/Siena […]

Maryland filed a lawsuit against the shipping company responsible for the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, which left six workers dead.  Maryland’s lawsuit mirrors other recent filings alleging the Singapore-based ship’s owner and manager, Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Group, knowingly sent a faulty ship into American-controlled waters. Earlier this year, the […]

Embattled Mayor Sheng Thao of Oakland, California, issued an executive order on Monday directing the city to start aggressively clearing homeless encampments.  “Being unhoused is not a crime in Oakland, but it doesn’t give individuals the right to break other laws,” Thao said in a video statement posted on her YouTube page. “We must protect our critical […]