The Arizona Police Association announced Monday it is throwing its weight behind Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) in the Arizona Senate race, despite endorsing Republican Kari Lake in her gubernatorial bid last cycle. “As a Marine combat veteran, we know Congressman Gallego understands the complexities of modern policing in American society today, while at the same time...
Congressional funding chiefs on Monday pressed U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for more information on what they’re describing as a “food shortage crisis” facing tribes nationwide. House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) led the letter requesting the information, along with the ranking members on each committee and subcommittee...
The 2024 Republican Party platform promises to protect financial privacy, opposing the Biden administration's crackdown on crypto, the creation of a central bank digital currency, and the Consolidated Audit Trail system, which collects data on every stock and options trade made in the U.S.
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), who left the Democratic Party in 2022, announced Monday she was endorsing former President Trump in November's election. Gabbard, who has become a regular presence in conservative media, made the announcement during a National Guard Association gathering in Michigan where Trump was also speaking. "This administration has us facing multiple...
Kim Kardashian is making an appeal to President Biden to "make clemency a significant part of his legacy" before he leaves office next year. The reality TV star, a criminal justice reform advocate, posted on the social platform X on Monday that last week she visited the Justice Department in Washington and met with U.S. Pardon Attorney...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will by 2027 power data centers using geothermal energy storage, according to a power purchase deal announced Monday. Meta’s partner in the deal, Sage Geosystems, is a company run by three former Shell Oil executives who have sought to use their experience in drilling and fracking wells...
A Democrat trying to take one of the GOP’s most coveted Texas districts is at the center of an election-year probe by Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in what the nation’s oldest Latino rights group calls a campaign of “intimidation.” State authorities on Wednesday searched the home of Democratic party organizers in Bexar County, the state’s...
Extreme heat killed more Americans in 2023 than any other year over nearly a quarter century of records, according to research published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. At least 2,325 people died from the heat last year, according to the study, which included deaths with heat as both an underlying and...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) took aim Monday at Vice President Harris’s foreign policy chops, saying Harris does not elicit fear in the country’s adversaries overseas. “The only person that our adversaries fear less than Joe Biden is Kamala Harris,” Johnson said in an interview on “Fox & Friends” with Brian Kilmeade, saying that’s true “whether...
Billy Baldwin says he's ending his decades long friendship with Robert Kennedy Jr. over the ex-White House hopeful's support of former President Trump, blasting him for having "sold his political soul." "I have known Bobby Kennedy Jr. for decades. We were friends. I loved his politics. His speeches inspired me," Baldwin wrote in a Sunday post...
Political scientist Larry Sabato dismissed a potential boost for former President Trump after independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed him last week. Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and editor-in-chief for election forecaster Sabato’s Crystal Ball, suggested on Friday that not all of Kennedy’s supporters will vote for Trump....
