Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra clashed nonstop for an hour Wednesday in the sole televised debate in their contest for California governor, presenting sharply contrasting visions for how they would deal with homelessness, soaring household costs and high taxes in the nation's most populous state.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has subsidized the manufacturing and export of materials used to make fentanyl through tax rebates, a House select committee alleged in its report. A monthslong investigation into Chinese websites, government documents and data points for narcotics companies has led the House Select Committee on China to believe that the country,...
Federal agencies and state and local health departments are investigating reports of reactions to injections of counterfeit or mishandled botulinum toxin, commonly known as Botox, across nine states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 19 people across nine states reported harmful reactions after receiving botulinum toxin shots from unlicensed or untrained individuals...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday accused House Republicans of impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over “policy disagreements” and warned it sets an “awful precedent for Congress.” “Impeachment should never be used to settle a policy disagreement. Talk about awful precedence. This would set an awful precedent for Congress,” Schumer warned on...
Democratic Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.) on Tuesday said he is "deeply concerned" about Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)'s new plan for foreign aid, calling on the Speaker to instead bring the Senate-passed security supplemental to the floor to secure funding for Ukraine. "We've already waited weeks too long. And I do also want to go on...
After already soaring to record peaks, book bans in U.S. schools have hit a new high, according to free speech advocacy group PEN America. In the first half of the current school year, the group found more than 4,000 instances of book bans, beating the number found in the entire 2022-2023 academic year. The...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) pushed back on the growing ouster effort against him Tuesday, calling it “absurd” and “not helpful.” The comment came shortly after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced he would co-sponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) motion to vacate resolution, becoming the first lawmaker to publicly back the Georgia Republican’s measure. “It is,...
A union representing pilots for American Airlines warned over the weekend that there has been a “significant spike” in safety problems at the airline. “APA has been tracking a significant spike in safety- and maintenance-related problems in our operation," the safety committee of the Allied Pilots Association (APA) wrote in a memo dated April 13....
Congress can stop the federal student aid program from pushing families into poverty by banning earned income tax credit, child tax credit and Social Security seizures as a method of collecting debt.
Former President Trump will be back in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday for the continuation of jury selection in his criminal hush money trial. The process is expected to last a minimum of several days as hundreds of New Yorkers will be whittled down to 12 jurors with six alternates. More than half of the...
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) raised a controversy after he encouraged those dealing with streets blocked by protesters to “take matters into your hands,” appearing to encourage violence. Protesters against the American response to the Israel-Hamas war shut down multiple highways across the country Monday, including blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and Brooklyn...
The Labor Department on Tuesday issued long-awaited rules governing acceptable levels of exposure to silica dust, a compound linked to terminal breathing issues in miners. Under the final rule, the exposure limit will be lowered to 50 micrograms per cubic foot of air over the course of an eight-hour shift. It also requires metal and...
With former President Trump’s first criminal trial officially underway, most Americans don’t think he acted illegally in the hush money case, according to a recent survey. The survey, published last week by The Associated Press / NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found that 31 percent believe the former president’s actions were “unethical, but not...
