Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) on Monday signed the state’s first income tax on residents making more than $1 million annually. The “millionaire’s tax,” which advanced by the state Legislature last Wednesday and will impose a 9.9 percent annual tax on qualifying earners, is expected to boost the state’s budget by $4 billion. The funds...
California Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla sent a letter Monday to top immigration officials, requesting more information on data sharing between the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a woman was arrested in front of her child at San Francisco International Airport last week. “The reporting following this...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson broke with her two fellow liberal justices Tuesday as she dissented alone from the Supreme Court’s decision backing a challenge to Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban. “To do anything else opens a dangerous can of worms,” Jackson wrote in her 35-page dissent. “It threatens to impair States’ ability to regulate the provision...
Attorneys for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) are warning the FBI against releasing files in a decade-old case related to an investigation into a Chinese spy. The cease and desist letter comes amid reports FBI agents and other personnel in California have been directed to gather and redact sensitive information from documents in preparation for sharing...
The Iranian military struck a Kuwaiti oil tanker off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday morning, just a day after President Trump issued a stark warning against such a move. The Dubai Media Office said in a Tuesday post on social platform X that there were no reported injuries or oil leaks...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters on Tuesday morning, in the fifth week of the Iran conflict, that regime change "has occurred" in Iran and echoed the president in pushing U.S. allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at allies over their reluctance to help secure Iran’s Strait...
President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at allies over their reluctance to help secure Iran’s Strait of Hormuz, telling them to either buy U.S. oil or get it themselves from the critical waterway. “All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to...
President Trump is losing the bros, endangering Republicans in the midterms and reshuffling their coalition as vibes change on the right. The so-called bro vote — referring to young men — was critical to helping Trump win back the White House in 2024, giving the right what they thought was a blueprint for sustained electoral success in years...
The average price of standard gas in the U.S. hit $4 as of Tuesday morning, after hovering right under the dollar mark for about a week. This is up by over a dollar from a month ago after the onset of the Iran conflict at the end of February spiked fuel prices. The average price...
Eric Trump, President Trump’s son, unveiled the first renderings of his father’s presidential library and museum on Monday, which will be built in downtown Miami. The younger Trump wrote on the social platform X that he has “poured my heart and soul into this project” with his team at the Trump Organization. “This landmark on...
