Abortions in North Carolina dropped 31 percent in a single month after the state's 12-week abortion ban took effect, according to a new analysis, the largest of any state. After the law took effect on July 1, there were 1,310 fewer abortions performed in the health system that month compared to June, the analysis from...
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday defended her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic, citing statistics on recent firearms seizures, reduced reports of gunfire in the Albuquerque metro area and an uptick in jail bookings, while awaiting a crucial court ruling on a signature effort to suspend gun-carry rights in public parks and playgrounds.
Kevin Phillips, the author, commentator and political strategist whose landmark book, "The Emerging Republican Majority," became a blueprint for Republican thinking in the 1970s and beyond, has died. He was 82.
House Republicans are tasked with finding a new speaker of the House after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted on Oct. 3. As of now, two people have emerged as the leading candidates to replace McCarthy, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA). Both are fine candidates and would do a fine job. However, if the GOP wants to make an impact, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) should be the next speaker.
Former President Trump endorsed Kari Lake, an ardent supporter of his, in the Arizona Senate race on Tuesday evening. "When I'm back in the White House, I need strong fighters like Kari in the Senate. She is a fighter. She's strong and she's good. She's got a great heart by the way," Trump said in a...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) donned a red “A” on her shirt on Tuesday after her vote to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) left her feeling “demonized” on Capitol Hill, she said. “I'm wearing the ‘scarlet letter’ after the week that I just had, last week, being a woman up here and being demonized for...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the North Carolina Democratic Party on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Election immediately after a pair of GOP-backed election laws went into effect when the state legislature voted to override the Democratic governor’s veto on Tuesday. The lawsuit challenges Senate Bill 747, which...
Former President Trump insinuated former President Barack Obama is President Biden’s boss at an event in New Hampshire Monday. “You've been ripped off by everybody and betrayed by the corrupt globalists, Washington, Wall Street people, those combinations of Washington, Wall Street, they’re the worst of all. And it's never been worse than it is now...