A Democratic sponsor says he is cautiously optimistic the House will pass a bill Wednesday that would force a Chinese parent company to divest itself of TikTok, the massively popular video platform.
With almost all candidates in contested Republican primaries nationwide frenetically trying to associate themselves with former President Donald Trump, one stands out for openly doing the opposite. In a 12-way Republican race to replace retiring Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup in Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District, longtime local official Phil Heimlich is running in the state’s March […]
Mere days after President Joe Biden boasted during his State of the Union address that inflation is dropping, the Labor Department revealed that the consumer price index rose by 3.2% in the year ending in February, well past economist expectations and up from 3.1% in January. Worse still, both headline CPI and core CPI, that […]
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) announced Wednesday that she intends to pardon misdemeanor marijuana possession charges, a move which could impact hundreds of thousands of Bay State residents. “Nobody should face barriers to getting a job, housing or an education because of an old misdemeanor marijuana conviction that they would not be charged for today,”...
The U.S. Army has sent four Army boats loaded with equipment toward the eastern Mediterranean Sea as Washington plans to construct a port off the coast of Gaza to alleviate a humanitarian crisis in the territory. The 7th Transportation Brigade Army ships James A. Loux, Monterrey, Matamoros and Wilson Warf left Joint Base Langley-Eustis in...
Lawmakers took home their sixth consecutive win in the Congressional Hockey Challenge on Tuesday, riding a second-period scoring streak to shut down any hope of a lobbyist comeback. “There’s no such thing as a Republican or Democrat when you get on the ice,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer () said in a video released to...
Nearly 30 percent of Generation Z women identify as a member of the LGBTQ community, according to a new report. The Gallup survey, released Wednesday, found that 28.5 percent of women and 10.6 percent of men born between 1997 and 2012 identify as LGBTQ. In comparison, the same report found that only 12.4 percent of...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) cited her previous ban on Twitter, the platform now known as X, in opposing legislation that could ban TikTok on Wednesday. “I rise today as the only member of Congress that has ever been banned by social media,” Greene said on the House floor, as the lower chamber prepared to...
A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for sending a bomb threat to an Arizona election official in 2021, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. James W. Clark, 40, pleaded guilty in August to one charge of making a threatening interstate communication to the election official’s office. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said that...