Texas stopped charging sales tax on menstrual and baby products starting Friday, becoming the 24th state to do so as women’s rights groups argue the taxes are discriminatory. The products — including menstrual pads and baby diapers — were previously taxed as “luxury goods” in Texas at a 6.25 percent rate, but will now be...
A Gallup analysis released on Friday found the U.S. partisan gap in religious identity is widening. In an aggregate of five Gallup surveys conducted from May 2021 to May 2023, 26 percent of people who say they have no religious identity “identify or lean towards the Democratic party.” In comparison, the aggregate found that only...
Proud Boy Ethan Nordean on Friday was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack — a tie for the longest sentence handed down in connection with the riot. A Washington state chapter leader of the right-wing extremist group, Nordean was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Friday said he would only open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden with a full House vote — shutting down talk of Republicans potentially moving forward without one. “To open an impeachment inquiry is a serious matter, and House Republicans would not take it lightly or use it for political...
The White House on Friday argued that if Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) moves forward with an impeachment inquiry, it would be to throw ‘red meat’ to the ring wing of the GOP. The comments come after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) warned Thursday that she would not vote to fund the government if the House...
Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola sobbed in a Washington, D.C., courtroom Friday as he asked a federal judge for leniency in his Jan. 6 sentence and vowed to stay out of politics in the future. However, after receiving a 10-year prison sentence, Pezzola reportedly raised his fist and shouted, “Trump won,” as he left the courtroom,...
New Jersey's Democratic governor says the state cannot take any more migrants from New York City amid reports the federal government is looking to house them.