The White House on Monday seized on reporting that Republican lawmakers are preparing to extend tax cuts from the first Trump administration and lower rates for corporations if the GOP wins control of the White House and Congress in November. In a memo from deputy press secretary Andrew Bates, the White House cited a Washington...
A majority of American Jews support President Biden’s reelection campaign and say they trust him over former President Trump to combat the “serious” problem of rising antisemitism, according to a survey published Monday. The American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) 2024 survey of American Jewish Opinion — conducted March 12 to April 6 — shows Jews largely...
A new poll of Puerto Rican voters found striking similarities in most political positions among respondents who live in the U.S. territory and the millions of Puerto Ricans on the mainland. The survey, conducted by progressive pollster Izq Strategies for La Brega y Fuerza, a project to increase the diaspora’s civic engagement, found that both...
A circuit court judge who represented a local affiliate of Planned Parenthood announced on Monday that she’s launching a bid for a vacant seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which is up for grabs next year. Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford is vying for outgoing liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley’s seat on the...
Federal agencies are ramping up efforts to crack down on the sale and distribution of illicit electronic cigarettes, intent on stemming the flood of products on the market that continuously skirt government regulation. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday a new task force of agencies aimed at bringing “all available criminal and civil tools...
Former President Trump, the presumptive Republican 2024 nominee, hauls in big bucks during a fundraising swing through blue-state California in his election rematch with Biden
An investigation by the federal HHS inspector general found California over-reimbursed tens of millions of dollars in Medicaid expenditures for "noncitizens with unsatisfactory immigration status."
President Biden is believed to be eyeing more liberal immigration moves after a controversial asylum measure was rolled out last week that angered many on the left.
The Biden administration is calling for the opening of an ICE detention facility that was shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic and has yet to reopen.