Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is getting a primary challenger in his reelection race for his House seat representing the state’s 20th congressional district. David Giglio, who previously lost a congressional bid for the state’s 13th district, is running as an “America First Republican” who will “fight alongside President Donald Trump in 2024 as he...
The Biden administration is putting $1.3 billion toward bolstering the nation’s power lines while emphasizing the investment’s importance for carbon-free power. The funds will go toward three proposed transmission lines, the administration announced Monday. One transmission line would bring renewable energy from New Mexico to Arizona. The second would connect Vermont and New Hampshire to Canada. The third...
A weeklong hearing on a lawsuit seeking to bar former President Trump from the ballot in Colorado under the 14th Amendment is underway this morning in Denver. The suit was filed last month by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated voters in Colorado that include former federal,...
The Senate Republican campaign arm launched a new 30-second ad spot Friday labeling Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) a “Biden Democrat.” “You know what they say: If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's a duck. Same goes for Joe Manchin,” the narrator began in the ad from the National Republican Senatorial...
At least a dozen people are dead and many more are injured after numerous mass shootings took place across the United States over the Halloween weekend. There were 13 mass shootings — defined as when at least four victims are injured or killed — that took place between Friday and Sunday, according to the Gun Violence...
Elderly Black Americans are on the front lines of a coming spike in deaths from climate change, a new study has found. Between 2008 and 2019, extreme heat drove at least 1,600 Americans — disproportionately Black and elderly — to an early death from heart attacks. Without aggressive action on climate, that number could more than...
They share a toxic view that the government does more harm than good, and they are not in Congress to solve people’s problems, but to use a “scorched-earth” strategy to hasten the demise of the federal government.
Ethnic studies faculty at the University of California say calling attacks on Israeli civilians "terrorism" is making Palestinian students and community members "unsafe."