Texas is investigating more than 100 people who may have illegally voted as noncitizens in the 2020 and 2022 elections, state Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson raised more than $18 million for House Republicans over the second quarter of the year, pushing his total election cycle haul above $50 million.
In a way, Benjamin Disraeli, 19th-century founder of Britain’s Conservative Party, got it wrong when he said, “Finality is not the language of politics.” What he meant was that politics keeps moving along, changing things, so no referendum, election, or other isolated event is the last word on any matter of public opinion or policy. […]
Eat your heart out, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA). The best-run state in the country is still Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Florida. For the third year in a row, CNBC ranked Florida as having the top economy in the country, based on factors such as GDP and job growth, credit ratings, spending, revenues, pension obligations, and the residential real estate market. Florida also ranks […]
Twelve hardline House Republicans tanked a procedural vote on Tuesday over concerns with cryptocurrency legislation the chamber is preparing to consider, bringing the floor to a standstill and dealing a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and GOP leadership. The vote on the rule — which governs debate for legislation — fell short of the majority...
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told reporters after meeting with Senate Republicans Tuesday that the White House is on board with a substitute amendment to the rescissions package that would exempt PEPFAR, the global anti-AIDS initiative from cuts. Vought said that the president could accept the substitute amendment to exempt the President’s...
The latest attempt by House Democrats to force a vote on releasing files related to the disgraced, late financier Jeffrey Epstein failed on Tuesday. Democrats unsuccessfully urged the chamber to oppose a routine procedural vote — known as the motion on ordering the previous question — since failure would have triggered a vote on Rep. Ro Khanna’s...
Just three percent of Americans say they’re satisfied with the amount of information the federal government has released in the case involving disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a CNN/SSRS survey released Tuesday. Meanwhile, 50 percent of U.S. adults say in the poll that they are dissatisfied with the amount of...
The frigid waters that surround Antarctica may be inhospitable to human inhabitance, but they are churning with the manmade relics of toxic chemical production, a new study has found. Certain types of “forever chemicals” are present in ocean areas west of the Antarctic Peninsula at levels comparable to those in the North Atlantic, according to...