Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su said on Thursday that she has no "intention of going anywhere" as her Senate confirmation is stuck in limbo more than six months after she was first nominated by President Biden. “I'm all in for doing it,” Su said in an interview with The Messenger. “I don't have an intention...
Ohio authorities on Friday released body camera footage of the fatal police shooting of Ta'Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black woman. The footage, posted in a video with retired Sheriff Russ Martin’s analysis, came from the body camera of the two officers involved in the shooting, which took place at a grocery store in Blendon...
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s obsession with pulling Virginia out of RGGI will only drag the state backwards and jeopardize Virginians’ pocketbooks, health and economy.
President Biden is slated to appear Friday in the White House Rose Garden to comment on the August jobs report, which generally showed a steady labor market. Unemployment, which was expected to hover at July’s 3.5 percent, inched up to 3.8 percent according to the data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report...
Trump’s rhetoric offers an opportunity for Biden to draw a clear line between the Democrats and Republicans on international trade and economic competence.
President Biden will award the Medal of Honor at the White House Sept. 5 to a former Army helicopter pilot who rescued four of his fellow comrades in a daring mission during the Vietnam war. Biden will extend the nation's highest military service award to retired Capt. Larry L. Taylor, of Chattanooga, Tenn., a veteran...
The special visa program to get Afghan citizens who assisted the American military into the U.S. faces lingering challenges despite years of reviews and oversight, according to a report from the State Department Inspector General. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) report said there is a “significant and growing Afghan [Special Immigrant Visas] applicant backlog,”...
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing a law requiring pornography sites to implement age-verification measures, after finding the law unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra found that the law, which was set to go into effect Friday, violates the First Amendment because it “substantially regulates protected speech, is severely underinclusive,...
FAIRFAX, Va. — When recent Fairfax High School graduate Beatrice Stotz considers Virginia’s new education policies on transgender students, she thinks about a friend of hers whose parents aren’t supportive of her gender identity. Among Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) recently finalized policies restricting the rights of transgender students is a prohibition on school districts...
Rep. Jamie Raskin is asking Oversight Chair James Comer to subpoena Jared Kushner's investment firm over accusations of monetizing his influence as a former White House official.