Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde has pledged to donate his salary to charity if he is elected. Hovde, a Madison-area businessman, announced in February that he would challenge Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) for the seat, handing the GOP one of the final pieces to its 2024 map puzzle in the key swing state. Hovde...
The Republican nominee in North Carolina for superintendent of public instruction has a history of violent comments toward Democrats, including former President Obama and President Biden, a CNN investigation uncovered. Michele Morrow called for the executions of Obama and Biden in 2020, CNN found, along with other comments on social media between 2019 and 2021...
Tough-on-crime tactics persist despite history and research repeatedly showing that they are ineffective and detrimental to the very communities they seek to protect.
GOP Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno has blamed a former intern for a “prank” after a report that his email account was linked to an adult website profile. After a leaked database from the website Adult Friend Finder (AFF) and other available records were reviewed by The Associated Press, the newswire reported that someone with...
President Biden on Friday offered support for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after the senator called for new elections in Israel and criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war with Hamas. Biden told reporters during an Oval Office meeting with the prime minister of Ireland that Schumer gave senior White House staff a...
MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann called on Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney prosecuting the election interference case against former President Trump and his allies, to resign from the case. A judge ruled on Friday that Willis or Nathan Wade, another prosecutor on the case she had a romantic relationship with, must step down given...
Dozens of college swimmers and volleyball players are suing the NCAA over its transgender policies, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday. The lawsuit alleges the athletes' Title IX rights were violated when transgender woman Lia Thomas was allowed in the 2022 national championships. Thomas was on the men’s swim team at the University of...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted new rules Thursday requiring cable and satellite television providers to clearly display their “all-in” prices, as part of the Biden administration’s effort to crack down on so-called “junk fees.” Under the new rules, providers will have to include the total cost of video programming, including any additional programming-related fees,...
The story of Israelis slaughtering Palestinians Arabs in response to the slaughter of Israelis is the latest chapter in rivalries going back through the ages.
Morel mushrooms have been linked to a deadly outbreak in Montana last year, a study in the Center for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report said Thursday. According to the study, between March and April of last year, 51 people reported “mild to severe gastrointestinal illness” in the wake of eating at a restaurant...
The Biden administration announced on Friday it is looking to take action against junk fees for college students and student loan borrowers. The White House said it is targeting four kinds of junk fees in its initiative: student loan origination ones, college banking junk fees, automatic charges for textbooks and colleges keeping leftover money...
Building economic engagement around radical transparency would defang the corruption, surveillance and secrecy that form the backbone of China’s global development strategy — building a stronger, fairer and more open global economy in its place.
The Supreme Court clarified when public officials can block critical constituents from their personal profiles without violating their constitutional protections in a unanimous decision on Friday. After hearing appeals of two conflicting rulings — one filed against school board members in Southern California and another filed against the city manager of Port Huron, Mich. —...
New York's top court ruled Thursday that laws banning workplace discrimination cover people who are applying for jobs in New York but live elsewhere. The New York Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that New York City and New York State Human Rights Laws protect nonresidents who are not yet employed in the city or state...
It isn’t easy being a working parent in America. Take child care for example: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a baseline of affordability which states that childcare is considered affordable when it costs no more than seven percent of household income. In reality, according to a recent survey, the average...
Three people have died in fierce storms that made their way through Ohio and several other states Thursday night. The three deaths were reported in Logan County, Ohio, northwest of Columbus. “3 people have been confirmed dead. We are working on identifying the victims,” Chief Deputy Joe Kopus of the Logan County Sheriff’s Office said...
A group of Democratic senators representing Maryland and Virginia wrote a letter pushing back on adding any long-haul fights to the “already overburdened” Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). The letter thanked the chairs and ranking members of transportation committees in both the House and the Senate for their work on a bipartisan Federal Aviation...
Former President Trump has won the GOP caucuses in the Northern Mariana Islands, according to a Decision Desk HQ projection. Trump has already hit the delegates he needs to secure the Republican nomination for 2024, and his win in the U.S. territory adds to his winning streak on the GOP side. There are 9 delegates...
An attorney representing former President Trump in his Georgia election interference case argued a judge did not go far enough after ruling Friday the case can move forward if either Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) or the prosecutor she had a romantic relationship with step aside. "While respecting the Court’s decision, we believe that the...
It will now be more difficult to engage in freelancing, gig work or certain types of independent work.
We must question conflicts of interest. We must ponder whether those who distribute government grants might be swayed to favor companies that offer them royalties. The push for royalty transparency has been a long time coming.
Former President Trump endorsed Sen. John Barrasso to become the next Senate Republican whip, saying the Wyoming lawmaker "will never let you down." “John Barrasso is a fantastic Senator for the incredible people of Wyoming,” Trump said in a Thursday evening post on Truth Social. “He is running to be the next Republican Whip for...
Former Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean said in an interview late Thursday that former President Trump is the candidate for the “gazillionaire class." "I don’t think there is going to be any limit to dollars spent in this race. Trump has got every gazillionaire in the country, apparently is now breathing heavily whenever Trump walks...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Thursday posted a video promoting a South Dakota business, even as she faces criticism and a lawsuit for a previous video. Noem posted a video on X, formerly Twitter, promoting Fit My Feet, who built her custom insoles for tennis shoes and cowboy boots. She wrote online that...
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) said in a new interview that he’s still planning on retiring despite Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s reported entreaties that he reconsider his decision not to run for reelection. “I think that’s a long, long, long-shot scenario,” Manchin told CNN’s Manu Raju. “So I don’t anticipate that happening. "I...
