The Commerce Department on Monday announced it will put $2.6 billion toward coastal climate resilience in funds from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The funds, announced on a call with press Monday, will include about $400 million for tribal communities in support of habitat restoration, fish hatcheries and Pacific salmon. and those in the direct...
A spark of initial interest in forcing a vote to remove Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his position as Speaker over the debt limit deal he negotiated with President Biden has not caught on in the House Freedom Caucus, the hardline conservative group known for exerting pressure on GOP leadership. Multiple members leaving a Freedom Caucus...
Despite nearly every one of his supporters’ claims to the contrary, former President Donald Trump seems obsessed with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. It comes across as if Trump fears DeSantis’s candidacy, again, despite nearly every one of Trump’s supporters' comments to the contrary.
A younger generation of Republicans is committed to making theirs the parent party, and getting creative to do it. Take, for instance, Sen. J.D. Vance's (R-OH) amendment that didn’t make it into the $2.5 trillion debt limit deal Congress passed last week, which would have eliminated the marriage penalty on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program.
The greatest art exhibition of the 21st century has just closed. Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum stayed open until 2 a.m. on its final nights, June 2 and 3, to admit 2,600 additional lucky ticket winners. And “lucky” really is the word. The original half-million tickets had sold by the second day.
A spark of initial interest in forcing a vote to remove Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his position as Speaker over the debt limit deal he negotiated with President Biden has not caught on in the House Freedom Caucus, the hardline conservative group known for exerting pressure on GOP leadership. Multiple members leaving a Freedom Caucus...
The pilot of the unresponsive plane that sparked a military response after it flew into unauthorized airspace was seen slumped over by a fighter jet pilot, the Washington Post reports. A pilot of one of the F-16 jets sent to intercept the private aircraft described the pilot, identified as Jeff Hefner of East Hampton, N.Y., as...