NIKKI HALEY’S UNFIXABLE PROBLEM. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is already in South Carolina, campaigning for the Feb. 24 Republican primary, four weeks from Saturday. As she ratchets up her campaign in South Carolina, where, as an ex-governor, she should have a strong advantage, Haley faces a number of problems. The most […]
Montana Sen. Steve Daines (R), the head of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, said the Republican Party has its best recent chance to win the Senate majority in 2024. “The good news is: We have the best map in a decade,” Daines said this week in remarks before a luncheon meeting of The Ripon Society, a...
Imagine if every jail and prison across our great nation were equipped to provide medications for opioid addiction and provide people with the tools they need to succeed after reentry.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) said the standoff between President Biden and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) over the border is a “powder keg worth of tension." “This is a powder keg worth of tension,” Stitt said Thursday in an interview on Newsmax highlighted by Mediaite. “So, it’s very — it’s a very weird situation....
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) announced Friday a plan to overhaul the higher education system in the state, pointing out that Pennsylvania ranks 48th for affordability and 49th for investment for its universities. The four-point plan has been in development for a year under the Higher Education Working Group, which Shapiro created to generate suggestions....
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a Friday letter to his colleagues that Senate legislation addressing the border and aid to Ukraine and other countries would have been “dead on arrival” in the House, if reports about its terms are true. The letter follows separate signals from House leadership aides and conservatives in the House...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a defiant tone on Friday after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to throw out a genocide case against Israel, saying troops are carrying out a "sacred mission" to defend the country and vowing to continue the war in Gaza. Netanyahu said "Israel has an inherent right to...
Former President Trump walked out of the Manhattan federal courtroom where his sexual abuse defamation trial is ongoing, just after a lawyer for writer E. Jean Carroll had begun issuing closing remarks Friday. It's unclear why Trump left the courtroom, though it occurred shortly after Carroll lawyer Roberta Kaplan said the former president “has tried...
Tesla is recalling almost 200,000 of its electric vehicles to fix a software problem that may prevent their rearview cameras from working when the cars are in reverse. The recall includes certain 2023 Tesla Models S, X and Y that possess full self-driving technology. According to a report released this week by the National Highway...