The advent of electric vehicles is providing the Democratic Party with new ways to spit in the face of the working class and embrace corporations. On Tuesday, Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly shot down an effort by Republicans and Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) to repeal a law requiring that 35% of new cars sold […]
Fourteen Democrats voted with Republicans to denounce President Biden’s “open-border policies” on Wednesday, delivering a rare legislative rebuke to the leader of their party on the politically prickly matter of immigration and border policy. The GOP-led resolution — which also urges Biden to “end his administration’s open-border policies” — cleared the chamber in a 225-187 vote, with...
Google is cutting 100 employees at YouTube, the world’s most popular video platform, adding to the hundreds of other layoffs recently announced by the parent company, multiple outlets reported Wednesday. Google, which owns YouTube, told employees at YouTube’s operations and creator management teams that their jobs were eliminated, The New York Times reported, citing an...
A pair of bipartisan senators is urging President Biden to address the disparity in access to contraceptives between female service members and civilians. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) wrote a letter to Biden on Wednesday asking him to expand access to Food and Drug Administration-approved contraception for service members in his budget...
Former Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg announced Wednesday that she will step down from the company’s board of directors this year, shifting roles to an internal adviser. Sandberg, who served as the company’s COO from 2008 to 2022, is leaving to focus on philanthropic work but will remain on the board to “help ensure...
A Democratic target of Roger Stone's alleged death threats against lawmakers said he first learned of the episode from media reports. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said he has been in discussions with the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI, both of which he says are conducting investigations into the alleged threats. But before talking with...
Insurgent presidential hopefuls Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dean Phillips are seizing on former President Trump’s blowout victory in Iowa to bolster their case to an electorate that is overwhelmingly against another Biden-Trump race. Nonconformist aspirants see Trump and Biden as flawed choices for millions of disgruntled Americans, with Monday’s caucus results previewing what many...
Former President Trump after his day in court Wednesday accused the presiding judge of making rulings against him because the judge is an appointee of former President Clinton. Trump made headlines throughout the day as he attended a trial proceeding that will determine how much he owes writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her after she alleged...
Vice President Harris said clearly that the U.S. has racism in its history, bucking remarks to the contrary from GOP presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “There is no denying that we have, in our history as a nation, racism,” she said in an ABC News interview Wednesday. “I think we all...