The Kansas House on Thursday passed a bill to restrict diversity-oriented hiring practices at Kansas universities, making the Sunflower State the latest to try to limit DEI initiatives in educational settings. The bill passed in the Kansas House of Representatives in an 81-39 vote on Thursday, with five lawmakers absent from the vote. The bill would prevent the...
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., dismissed a lawsuit challenging a district law that allows noncitizens to vote in local elections, ruling the plaintiffs did not prove the law violates their rights. In an opinion issued Thursday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled against a group of seven plaintiffs — all of whom are U.S. citizens and registered...
The US announced sanctions on Thursday against Nicaraguan Attorney General Wendy Carolina Morales Urbina, accusing her of assisting the “ruthless oppression of peaceful opposition members” in the country. The Treasury Department dubbed Morales Urbina a "key actor in the Nicaraguan regime’s unjust persecution of political prisoners," according to a press release announcing its sanction. Morales...
A group of 16 Republican attorneys general from around the country sued the Biden administration on Thursday over its pause on federal permits for new liquid natural gas (LNG) exports. The states, led by Louisiana and Texas, demand the Department of Energy overturn the ban, which was announced in January. They claim the administration lacks...
Tennessee became the first state to protect its residents’ voice rights on Thursday when Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed the ELVIS Act, designed to protest musicians from artificial intelligence replication. "There are certainly many things that are positive about what AI does,” Lee said. “It also, when fallen into the hands of bad actors, it...
Rep. David Trone, D-Md., the Democrat frontrunner in Maryland's contentious Senate race, dropped a racial slur during a House Budget Committee hearing.
An obscure congressional rule could force the House to vote on Ukraine aid without Speaker Johnson's blessing, but the last time it was used successfully was under Reagan
A discharge petition are methods for a majority of House members to bypass the House Speaker, some members of Congress are looking to use the rarely successful parliamentary tool.
Those cheering the Biden administration’s electric-vehicle mandates or Gov. Hochul’s offshore wind farms would be wise to heed a painful and embarrassing lesson New...
New York City's high property taxes aren’t the result of discrimination; they’re just one example of a dysfunctional tax-assessment system that burdens homeowners and...