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New Jersey's governor on Thursday called on the state's lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, to resign by Friday after a law firm hired by her office concluded he violated the state's ethics and discrimination rules.
TRUMP, THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, CONGRESS, AND THE WAR. In 2002, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, President George W. Bush went through a long and elaborate process to secure the approval of Congress for going to war. On Oct. 10, 2002, the House passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force by a […]
Chukwunonso Eze entered the U.S. on a tourist visa in 2015 and received deferred action under both Biden and Trump before he allegedly killed a UMass Dartmouth football player.
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lambasted the Supreme Court amid its ethics controversies, raising the question of whether Chief Justice John Roberts has "gone rogue." Asked in an interview on CNN whether she has confidence in the high court, Pelosi said "No." "I think they've gone rogue," she replied. "It's most unfortunate." "But it's unfortunate...
A bipartisan group of 51 lawmakers in both the House and Senate is calling for increased oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) in Medicare Advantage (MA) coverage decisions. In the letter addressed to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the group of lawmakers said that they are “concerned about MA...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) railed against the "poisonous populism of the Right" on Tuesday, describing the Golden State as "the antidote" to fear-mongering policies prevalent across red states. "The California way of life we recognize is under attack," Newsom said in his pre-recorded State of the State address. "For conservatives and delusional California-bashers, their success...
New York Times senior political correspondent Maggie Haberman said she expects former President Trump to be “very mean” to President Biden during the first presidential debate Thursday but interrupt him less than he did four years ago. In an interview Monday night on CNN's "AC360," host Anderson Cooper played a clip from a recent Trump...
It would be a dangerous mistake for any political strategists and leaders in the Democratic party to overlook the significance of these voters in Wisconsin.
Today, supplies of more than 300 commonly used drugs in the U.S. are experiencing shortages. That's compared to supplies of maybe 40 or 50 commonly used drugs in the U.S. experiencing shortages 20 years ago, according to Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.), vice chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. The shortages, combined...
President Biden announced Tuesday that an international police force led by Kenya has deployed to Haiti to fight armed gangs and that the troops will provide "much-needed relief" to the crime-stricken Caribbean island. An initial wave of 400 Kenyan forces arrived Tuesday, the first phase of the eventual deployment of 1,000 troops. The police force...
The Human Rights Campaign on Tuesday announced Democratic heavyweight Guy Cecil will serve as chief strategist for its Equality Votes PAC’s 2024 electoral efforts, managing a multimillion-dollar paid media budget to reelect President Biden in November. Cecil chaired the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA for eight years before stepping down last March. He led the Democratic...
Unless federal law enforcement officials adopt a tougher stance and start treating Boeing like the felony recidivist it is, the company will not change.
The approval of the nation's first publicly funded religious charter school was struck down as unconstitutional by the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday. “The St. Isidore Contract violates state and federal law and is unconstitutional,” the court ruled. Oklahoma's Charter School Board has been ordered to rescind the contract with St. Isidore of Seville...
Business and advertising groups are demanding “significant changes” to a landmark data privacy bill slated for a markup on Thursday. House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and ranking member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) last week circulated a discussion draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), which would allow individuals to opt out...
