Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said Tuesday that the GOP pressure campaign to elect Rep. Jim Jordan as Speaker backfired after the Ohio Republican failed to clinch the necessary votes on the first ballot. “I believe it was. I've talked to a couple of members where they felt that — that's just not what they needed,”...
A Georgia judge Tuesday rejected a variety of attempts by Trump-aligned lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell to get their 2020 election interference charges thrown out. The ruling from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee — which found that the defendants did not establish a “defect in the substance or form of the indictment” —...
Rep. Jim Jordan and his allies took Tuesday afternoon to regroup after a vote in the House earlier in the day had 20 Republicans come out against his bid to become Speaker. Jordan (R-Ohio) secured 200 of the necessary 217 votes, while Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) got the full backing of Democratic members, with...
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Hamas the “new Nazis” on Tuesday at a press conference alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “This is the savagery of, that we only remember from the Nazi crimes in the Holocaust,” Netanyahu said, after describing a list of Hamas’s brutal tactics deployed against Israelis. “Hamas are the new Nazis....
Story at a glance Utah is the most energy efficient state in the United States, according to a new WalletHub analysis. The personal finance company compared home energy and vehicular energy consumption among 48 states, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, to come up with their recent ranking of most and least energy efficient states. ...
President Biden is expected to arrive Wednesday in Israel with the task of showing the United States’s unwavering support for the Jewish state in its fight against Hamas amid a humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza, a risky task for the president that could define his response to the Israel-Hamas war. Also complicating matters are fresh...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to launch a pilot program that would allow taxpayers in 13 states to electronically file their taxes directly with the agency for free during the 2024 tax season. Four states — Arizona, California, Massachusetts and New York — have agreed to work with the IRS to integrate their state...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a probe Tuesday into the city of Trenton, N.J., and the Trenton Police Department (TPD). “The investigation will seek to determine whether there are systemic violations of the Constitution and federal law by TPD,” the DOJ said in a press release. “The investigation will focus on TPD’s use of...
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen warned Monday that “deceleration” of artificial intelligence (AI) development could “cost lives." “We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives,” Andreessen said on a web page titled “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” on the Andreessen Horowitz website. “Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is...
Democratic Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim has denied under oath that he shared information about absentee ballots with a campaign volunteer accused of stuffing papers into a drop box.