Lawmakers shared their thoughts on social media following reports that Democrats in the House and Senate are discussing how to create conditions for future military aid to Israel. The discussions, first reported by Politico, are preliminary, and it's unclear if they will evolve into congressional action. A House Democrat who was granted anonymity by the...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republicans swept three runoff races for powerful statewide offices in Louisiana — attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer — Saturday night. The GOP success, in a state that has had a Democrat in the governor’s office for the past eight years, means that come January, Republicans will control the...
More details regarding a possible deal between Israel and Hamas, facilitated by the U.S., emerged on Saturday. A tentative deal to pause the conflict for at least five days in exchange for the release of dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza is near agreement, according to The Washington Post. The outlet previously...
Bob Graboyes explores a very interesting connection — between Émile Zola’s J’Accuse and the talk that writer Bari Weiss gave recently to a Federalist...
Former President Donald Trump lauded Speaker Mike Johnson for rolling out footage captured during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, saying the move took "courage and fortitude."
Speaker Mike Johnson is gearing up for a fight in the Empire State in 2024 to help maintain the handful of seats flipped by GOP lawmakers during last year's election cycle.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison condemned a group of neo-Nazis that marched through the streets of Madison on Saturday. According to reports and videos posted on social media, the neo-Nazi group called the Blood Tribe was spotted marching through downtown Madison carrying swastika flags and doing the nazi salute. Evers...
A U.S. postal service employee and two others have been charged over a scheme involving stolen checks worth more than $24 million, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday. Nakedra Shannon, 29, the postal worker, and Donnel Gardner, 27, and Desiray Carter, 24, all of Charlotte, N.C., have been charged with one count of conspiracy...
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) went on the defensive amid the Republicans' release of Jan. 6, 2021, footage, saying the tapes from the attack on the Capitol will prove that it was an insurrection. “I was in the Capitol on January 6th, and all these extra hours of footage will show that January 6th was an...