On Oct. 1, a new half-cent per dollar sales tax took effect across LA County. It will cost families hundreds of dollars a year. But that's not even the...
Former President Trump claimed Friday he has nearly $500 million in cash, conflicting with messaging from his attorneys who claim he won’t be able to post the $454 million bond for his civil fraud case. “THROUGH HARD WORK, TALENT, AND LUCK, I CURRENTLY HAVE ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN CASH, A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has filed a motion to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from power over his endorsement of a bipartisan spending deal that’s expected to pass through Congress this week. Greene filed a motion to vacate the chair, the same procedural move that led to the ousting of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy...
Conservative commentator Candace Owens is out at the Daily Wire, the company announced Friday. In a social media post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing wrote "Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship." Boreing did not provide any additional details on what led to the separation....
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) says Republicans who vote for the spending package set to hit the floor Friday are putting the GOP majority at risk in November, as the hard-line conservative launches a last-ditch effort to convince his colleagues to vote against the $1.2 trillion bill. The comment came during a House Freedom Caucus press...
The U.S. reduced carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector by more than 15 percent from 2005 to 2022 as natural gas replaced coal as the primary fuel type for power generation.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said late Thursday that she would be voting against the latest government funding package, citing the “complete failure” of the Republican majority in the House. “Our Republican majority is a complete failure,” Greene said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “We have the power of the purse,...
The House is expected to vote Friday on a package of six funding bills totaling $1.2 trillion, a necessary measure to prevent a partial government shutdown Saturday. Among the departments included in the legislation are Defense, Labor, State, the IRS, Education and Homeland Security (DHS). Of these, funding for DHS has presented one of the...
Majorities of voters in Michigan and Pennsylvania, two key swing states that helped President Biden win in 2020, are dissatisfied with their choices this year, new polling has found. CNN surveys, conducted by SSRS, found that majorities of voters in the two battleground states aren’t happy that Biden and former President Trump are the leading...
It’s time for my colleagues to put up or shut up. If they are serious about the threat from China, then they need to get serious about investing in America.
Congress has one day left to avert a government shutdown, and this morning’s expected vote in the House is set to kick off the whirlwind process to make sure the lights stay on in Washington. Congressional leaders rolled out a sprawling $1.2 trillion legislative package to fund swaths of the government in the wee hours...
Former President Trump and his campaign’s pitch to voters is simple: Are you better off than you were four years ago? But when Trump posed the question himself on Truth Social this week, he was met with derision from Democrats and other critics. “March 2020 was famously a great time for everyone,” Sen Tim Kaine...
