The executive government in Washington, D.C., led by Mayor Muriel Bowser, asked on Friday for $500 million for public safety in its fiscal year 2027 budget proposal. Among the budget’s items to strengthen public safety in the federal district are $46 million to improve youth rehabilitation facilities and $75 million to build a new jail […]

New Jersey residents have a slightly lower approval of the job Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) is doing compared to that of her predecessor, former Gov. Phil Murphy, according to a new poll. The first Rutgers-Eagleton poll on Sherrill’s approval rating comes as the Garden State governor, elected in November by a 14.4% margin, approaches her […]

A liberal government watchdog group is accusing Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito of abusing his role by openly supporting the president’s agenda, something it says could run afoul of federal ethics law, but which D’Esposito maintains was apolitical.  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint against D’Esposito on Wednesday. In […]

NEW YORK — Former Vice President Kamala Harris confirmed she is considering running for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination. “I might,” Harris said in a fireside chat with Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention in New York. “I am thinking about it.” Harris’s statement that she is mulling another presidential run comes after months of rumors […]