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Bruce Blakeman announces his run for New York governor, setting up GOP primary clash with Elise Stefanik

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman announced on "Fox & Friends" that he would run for the Republican nomination for New York governor.

Federal judge refuses to release pro-Trump clerk convicted in 2020 election scheme

A federal judge denied a release request for former clerk Tina Peters, who is serving nine years for scheming to breach Colorado voting systems in 2020.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will vote ‘NO’ on proposed NDAA, blasts foreign aid spending

While House Speaker Mike Johnson has spoken highly of the proposed NDAA, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia noted in a post on X that she will vote against it

Albuquerque voters to decide mayoral runoff as law-and-order challenger takes on incumbent in blue city

Crime and homelessness take center stage as Albuquerque voters choose between incumbent Mayor Tim Keller and challenger former Sheriff Darren White in a runoff election.

Trump’s 2020 election pardon blank checks 

The broad language in President Trump’s pardons for dozens of allies who helped challenge his 2020 presidential election loss could hand unexpected beneficiaries a blank check. The president granted unconditional pardons to more than 70 lawyers, aides and so-called “fake electors” for efforts to provide an alternate slate of Electoral College votes in his...

Does a smaller government make America better?  

What the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attempted to do with a sledgehammer, Congress succeeded in doing with gridlock and an unwillingness to compromise. 

Legalize marijuana to ease the opioid crisis

We also found that states that legalized recreational marijuana earliest (for example, in the early 2000s) experience larger decreases in opioid deaths.

House returns to Washington to end shutdown saga

The House is set to vote on a bill to end the government shutdown, while Democrats are in a stronger position to respond to Republican redistricting efforts.

Fetterman: ‘No one really knows’ who’s running the Democratic Party in Senate, House

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Tuesday that “no one really knows” who’s heading up his party in both chambers of Congress as tensions flare among Democrats over the ongoing government shutdown. “Who is running the show now in the Democratic Party, in the Senate, in the House?” Fox News’s Lawrence Jones asked Fetterman on “Fox...

Raskin blasts ‘blatantly corrupt’ Senate deal allowing suits over secret phone record subpoenas

The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee slammed a Senate-approved plan to reopen the government that would also pave the way for eight GOP senators to earn significant sums from litigation challenging the search of their phone records related to Jan. 6. Tucked into the GOP proposal, which eight Democratic senators also approved, the...

Federal action may end fight over intoxicating hemp products in Texas

A proposal to reopen the U.S. government that passed the Senate on Monday contains language that would outlaw the sale of intoxicating hemp products across the nation.

Duffy warns of ‘massively more disruption’ in air travel if shutdown extends to weekend

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday warned of “massively more disruption” in air travel if the ongoing government shutdown, which has lasted for more than a month, continues into the weekend. “You're going to see this Friday, Saturday and Sunday — big disruption thus far — massively more disruption as we come into the weekend,...

Jeffries, Democrats will offer 3-year extension of ObamaCare subsidies

House Democratic leaders on Tuesday will propose a three-year extension of the soon-to-expire ObamaCare subsidies at the center of the shutdown fight. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.), the Democratic whip, will offer the legislation as an amendment to the Senate-passed spending agreement during a meeting of the Rules Committee...

Federal THC ban send hemp companies scrambling

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Federal THC ban send hemp companies scrambling The hemp industry is scrambling to stave off what representatives are saying could be an extinction-level event engineered by Republicans in Congress. © Associated Press The Senate late Monday passed a...

Newsom blasts reported Trump plan to drill off California’s coast as ‘dead on arrival’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) blasted the Trump administration’s reported plans to open up new drilling off California’s coasts as “dead on arrival.” “As it relates to offshore oil drilling, it's overwhelmingly opposed by members of all political parties in the state of California,” Newsom said during a press conference at the COP30 climate conference...

Trump’s 50-year-mortgage proposal highlights problems in housing market

The controversy over President Trump’s proposal for a 50-year mortgage is highlighting deep affordability concerns in the housing market. The president kicked off a debate over housing costs last weekend when he floated on social media a longer-term mortgage — which would presumably mean lower monthly payments for the average homeowner, compared with a standard 30-year home...

Kansas officials to pay $3M over raid on Marion newspaper

Officials in Marion County, Kansas, agreed Monday to pay over $3 million in damages following a police raid on a local newspaper and two homes in August 2023. The newspaper, the Marion County Record, said the county admitted wrongdoing in the incident. The raids were conducted by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office on the newspaper’s...

FDA announces agency veteran will become top drug regulator after Tidmarsh resignation

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced 26-year agency veteran Richard Pazdur will replace a top regulator who resigned earlier this month amid accusations of abusing his power. Pazdur will be the director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Pazdur's appointment comes just more than a week after former CDER Director...

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