In a matter of just eight days, the U.S. political landscape has changed completely. President Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 race was the culmination of a head-spinning series of events that began with an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and ended with Vice President Harris as the frontrunner to be the Democratic...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has proposed cutting the corporate income tax rate from 21 percent to 15 percent, which would improve economic growth and give the U.S. a competitive advantage.
Republican-led states on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to block the Biden administration’s effort to cut planet-warming emissions from the power sector. Twenty-five states sent a petition to the high court arguing for the Biden rule to be stayed while their case against it plays out after a lower court declined to pause it. The...
A California environmental group on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the Port of Los Angeles, accusing the defendant of unleashing toxic pollutants into the San Pedro Bay. The activists — from the organization Environment California — claimed that the port has violated the federal Clean Water Act with more than 2,000 illegal discharges in the past...
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) threw his hat into the ring to be the next governor of California on Tuesday, joining an already crowded field in the race to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). Villaraigosa announced his candidacy for the 2026 contest in a video, calling himself a “proven problem solver.” He previously...
A pair of House Republicans are raising concerns about Supreme Court justices’ safety following the recent attempted assassination on former President Trump. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who chairs one of the panel’s subcommittees, on Tuesday sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding a staff-level briefing about steps taken...
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough is slamming Republicans for attacking Vice President Harris as a "DEI candidate" now that she has become the likely Democratic presidential nominee with President Biden's exit from the race. DEI stands for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives meant to increase diversity in employment and other institutions. “You’ve got Republicans being just total...
Vice President Harris on Tuesday condemned the police killing of Sonya Massey, who was shot in the face by an officer earlier this month after she called 911 for help. “Sonya Massey deserved to be safe. After she called the police for help, she was tragically killed in her own home at the hands of a responding...
Arlington, Va. and Washington D.C. are America’s fittest cities, according to a 2024 ranking compiled by the American College of Sports Medicine and the Anthem Foundation. Seattle, San Francisco, and Seattle rounded out the top 5 cities, and Oklahoma City ranked last out of 100. The ACSM American Fitness index ranks America’s 100 largest cities...
President Biden on Wednesday night will deliver his first on-camera remarks since deciding not to seek reelection, he announced. “Tomorrow evening at 8 PM ET, I will address the nation from the Oval Office on what lies ahead, and how I will finish the job for the American people,” Biden posted on the social platform...
It’s been a while since we had one, but positive campaigns can work under the right circumstances. Reagan’s Morning in America campaign theme earned him one of the biggest landslides in American history.
