Texas and Mississippi hit back at President Joe Biden after he called them “neanderthals” for lifting all coronavirus restrictions.
President Biden said allowing Mississippians to decide how to protect themselves is “neanderthal thinking.”
Mississippians don’t need handlers. As numbers drop, they can assess their choices and listen to experts. I guess...
A new bill in the Tennessee General Assembly would make obstructing a highway a felony.
The legislation would also provide immunity to drivers who accidentally injure or kill a pedestrian blocking a highway.
The House Criminal Justice Committee recommended passage for HB 513 on Wednesday.
Under the new law, if a driver...
(Headline USA) House Democrats passed sweeping voting legislation over unanimous Republican opposition, advancing to the Senate what would be the largest overhaul of the U.S. election law in at least a generation.
House Resolution 1, which touches on virtually every aspect of the electoral process, was approved Wednesday night on a...
(Headline USA) House Democrats hustled to pass the most ambitious effort in decades to overhaul policing nationwide, able to avoid clashing with moderates in their own party who are wary of reigniting a debate they say hurt them during last fall's election.
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act was approved...
The ranking minority member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee grilled the nominees for two top environmental posts over insulting West Virginia stereotypes.
Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said that Brenda Mallory (nominated to be chair of the Council on Environmental Quality) and Janet McCabe (nominated to be deputy...
(Headline USA) Republicans opposing a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that passed the House have pointed to two transportation projects as examples of pork that would politically benefit Democrat leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
Now those projects are out of the bill.
Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for House Speaker Pelosi, said...
A California sexual-harassment scandal has been revisited given the Biden administration's promotions of the two attorneys general who helped cover it up: Vice President Kamala Harris and Xavier Becerra.
Becerra, the pending nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, was moved out of the Senate Finance...
Congressional Democrats announced this week they would be introducing a bill to formally make Puerto Rico a state.
Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-NM, and Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., said on Tuesday the bill would set up a process to admit Puerto Rico as the nation’s 51st state if such a plan...
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have remained silent on the three credible allegations of sexual harassment against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, even though both have claimed to be vocal advocates of the #MeToo movement.
Harris, especially, was a vocal proponent of the women's...
A Minnesota Republican introduced a bill this week that would require transgender athletes to compete on the team corresponding with their biological sex, or else face criminal penalties.
State Rep. Eric Lucero introduced the bill on Thursday, arguing that the legislation is necessary to keep women’s sports safe.
The bill defines...
UPDATE 11:45 AM: The Los Angeles Times reported that the nomination of former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as President Biden's Health and Human Resources secretary will go to a full Senate vote after the Finance Committee deadlocked on a party-line vote, which means it proceeds without a recommendation....
New York state lawmakers voted on Tuesday to strip Gov. Andrew Cuomo of his pandemic-related emergency powers as he faces two disastrous scandals and calls for his resignation.
State Senate Majority Leader Andrew Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, both Democrats, announced thelegislature plans to pass a bill immediately removing...