House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday quipped the reports Congressional leaders ganged up on him during this week's meeting at the White House are “pretty accurate.” Johnson, along with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) met at the White House with President Biden and Vice President Harris on Tuesday for...
Anheuser-Busch and the Teamsters union reached a tentative deal on Wednesday to avoid a potential strike. The Budweiser brewer and Teamsters each announced the tentative five-year agreement on Wednesday, which the union said would “significantly” raise pay, improve health care and retirement benefits and provide job security for 5,000 of its union members across the...
A bill mandating that Asian American history be taught in Wyoming state schools inched closer this week after a state Senate committee voted to advance the bill. The state’s Senate committee on Tuesday voted 6-1 to advance the legislation, SB240, which would mandate teachings on Asian and Hmong Americans for grades K-12 in the Equality State. Current state...
Nintendo Inc. is accusing the developer of a Switch emulator of copyright violations and pirating its video game software in a new lawsuit filed this week. The lawsuit was filed in the District of Rhode Island federal court on Monday by Nintendo Inc., which is accusing Tropic Haze LLC of being aware that the use...
President Biden and former President Trump are both set to visit the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday, trips that come amid a recent buildup of U.S. National Guard troops in Texas. The simultaneous trips — Biden’s to Brownsville, near the Gulf of Mexico, and Trump’s stopping roughly 300 miles north at Eagle Pass — are intended to...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday said he is hopeful the U.S. Supreme Court "puts a stop" to what he called an "abuse of power" aimed against former President Trump after the high court announced it will weigh whether the former president can be criminally prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the election. "I'm glad...
Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said the Supreme Court’s decision to weigh former President Trump’s claims of presidential immunity was “a gift” to him, regardless of the outcome. “#SCOTUS ruling is a gift to Trump, even if the Justices ultimately rule against him on immunity. A decision in late June makes a DC trial on 1/6...
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) was sworn into the House on Wednesday, reclaiming the seat he previously held and shrinking the GOP’s already slim majority in the chamber. Suozzi won a special election in New York’s 3rd Congressional District earlier this month to replace former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) in the House after the GOP lawmaker was...
Marion, Ohio is set to honor former Treasurer Mary Ellen Withrow this week, with the 93-year-old Democrat making six planned appearances across town to commemorate her 1994 swearing-in.