Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke (D) was indicted on bribery charges on Friday following a monthslong state investigation into a campaign finance scandal. Luke was accused of accepting campaign finance contributions in 2022 while she was a state lawmaker in exchange for securing funding for COVID-19 testing sites. A Hawaii grand jury returned a 12-count...
A federal appeals court on Saturday ruled against the Trump administration's efforts to implement stricter mail-in voting rules before midterm elections in the coming months, with control of both the House and Senate up for grabs. The 1st U.S. Circuit of Appeals declined to lift a lower-court injunction from June that ruled parts of President...
As a former Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and cattle producer, I’ve seen firsthand the devastating effects of animal disease outbreaks. Few threats concern me more than the return of New World Screwworm, a dangerous parasite that poses a serious risk to U.S. livestock and wildlife if we fail to act promptly. The United […]
The Trump White House has made clear it will move to eliminate race-consciousness, a.k.a. “DEI,” in federal policy and regulation. A May Office of Personnel and Management memo to all federal department and agency heads advised that hiring decisions had “overemphasized discriminatory ‘equity’ quotas” and ordered an end to “the hiring of individuals based on […]
Employers may have added just 73,000 jobs in the month of July, according to the latest Labor Department jobs report published Friday. But that same survey found that the number of native-born workers with jobs rose by 383,000, bringing the total number of native-born jobs gained to over 2 million since President Donald Trump took […]
Judging from the media, you could be forgiven if you thought President Donald Trump’s job approval ratings are in a free fall. Not only are they actually on the rise, but the major polling averages underestimate his true standing with voters. That’s because Trump currently suffers from the largest gap in at least over a decade between approval ratings as measured […]
