Democrats are currently on track for a good midterm election year, maybe a great one, but Democratic excitement has likely reached the overhyped stage.
A pro-Israel Democratic advocacy group on Thursday released a framework intended to help the party better articulate its vision for the U.S. relationship with Israel, an issue that has deeply fractured Democrats this year and could lead to further divisions heading into the next presidential campaign.
President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance will both hit the campaign trail on Thursday, but they will be heading to heavily Republican areas to shore up lagging enthusiasm in their party ahead of next month's midterm elections.
The Small Business Act tells the federal government why small business contracting exists: to preserve free competitive enterprise, ensure small businesses receive a fair proportion of federal contracts, and strengthen the nation’s economy. If firms with $500 million in revenue are allowed to position themselves as “small” to access set-aside contracts, it would undermine the core […]
Leon Panetta, former defense secretary for the Obama administration, said it’s “not surprising” that Israel admitted mistakes after an airstrike killed aid workers earlier this week, because in his experience, “the Israelis usually fire and then ask questions.” “You have to be able to verify to take time to make sure that information that you’re...
The warning signs for this outbreak have been here for a very long time, and we must start paying closer attention to them to prevent more in the future.
This year’s women’s National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division I basketball tournament has become a viral sensation, with players like the University of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark and the University of South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso becoming household names across the country. Iowa and South Carolina are set to go head-to-head Sunday afternoon for the championship. Here’s...
Ben Rhodes, former national security adviser for the Obama administration, said he thinks the war in Gaza is reaching a “tipping point,” after seven aid workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike earlier this week. “I mean, it certainly feels like we’re approaching some kind of tipping point,” Rhodes told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Friday. “We’ve...
The NCAA Women’s basketball championship game is on Sunday. The University of Iowa Hawkeyes will take on the University of South Carolina Gamecocks in the final game of the 2024 women’s March Madness tournament. Iowa, and its star player Caitlin Clark, narrowly beat Connecticut in the Final Four Friday evening, ultimately beating the Huskies 71-69...
The surging popularity of women's college basketball is growing, as the average ticket price for this weekend's NCAA championship has reached about $2,900, according to StubHub. Logistix also reported that tickets for women's college basketball sold earlier this week for the semifinals doubled compared to the men's semifinals ticket prices. As this year's women's NCAA...
The body of a hostage held in Gaza has been recovered, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Saturday. “The body of hostage Elad Katzir was rescued by security forces overnight from Khan Yunis and returned to Israeli territory,” the IDF said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Katzir was taken on...
The Biden campaign on Saturday announced a staggering haul of $90 million in the month of March, buoyed by a major New York City fundraiser and another strong month of grassroots donations. The campaign closed out the first quarter of 2024 having raised $187 million total, and it enters the second quarter of the year...
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign has been “hijacked by MAGA” Friday. Kennedy referred to rioters in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as "activists" and suggested they were victims of an "outrageous miscarriage of justice," in a Thursday statement. “His campaign has been...
Story at a glance Microschools have experienced a boom in popularity since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tiny schools, which have a median student body size of 16, have been described as a modern reinvention of the one-room school house, where children of varying ages receive personalized instruction from a teacher in...
A three-judge panel in Tennessee heard arguments Thursday in a case seeking to have the state’s near-total abortion ban declared unconstitutional. The nine plaintiffs include seven women who say their health and fertility were threatened by their doctors refusing to perform medically necessary abortions due to fear of prosecution, as well as two Tennessee OB-GYNs who say...
