(Headline USA) Prospects for an ambitious infrastructure deal were thrown into serious doubt late Friday after the White House reduced President Joe Biden's sweeping proposal to $1.7 trillion.
Republican senators rejected the compromise as disappointing, saying "vast differences" remain.
While talks have not collapsed, the downbeat assessment is certain to mean...
(Headline USA) New York's attorney general said Friday that she's assigned two lawyers to work with the Manhattan district's attorney's office on a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's business dealings.
Attorney General Letitia James said her office is working alongside and cooperating with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance...
(Headline USA) A judge on Friday agreed to unseal absentee ballots to allow for an audit of November election results in Georgia's most populous county.
Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero said the specifics of the audit of more than 145,000 absentee ballots from Fulton County would be outlined in...
(Associated Press) The White House is pushing a new reason to swipe right: vaccination badges and “super swipes” for people who've gotten their coronavirus shots.
The Biden administration said Friday it's teaming up with dating apps to showcase the benefits of getting a shot.
Apps like Hinge, Tinder, Match and Bumble are...
(Associated Press) Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, a Republican trying to unseat U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney next year, disclosed that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, describing the relationship as “like the Romeo and Juliet” story and saying it was coming to light because of "dirty politics."
Bouchard...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Texas Senate approved House Bill 1925, which would outlaw vagrant camping in public places across Texas.
The bill passed with bipartisan support in the Senate after passing the House on May 6.
The bill now heads back to the House to approve amendments added by the...
(Headline USA) CNN said Thursday it was “inappropriate” for anchor Chris Cuomo to have been involved in phone calls with the staff of his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, where strategies on how the governor should respond to sexual harassment allegations were allegedly discussed.
The network was responding to a...
The Treasury Department released a new tax compliance initiative in which the Internal Revenue Service will hire nearly 87,000 new agents to collect an additional $700 billion over the next decade.
The American Families Plan Tax Compliance Agenda aims at fixing the "tax gap"—the difference between the federal government's expected...
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has proposed spending $30 million to fix three speedways in the state, including a large handout to the thriving Charlotte Motor Speedway, WSOC-TV in Charlotte reported.
Cooper plans to fund the repairs with a small portion of the $5.7 billion that the federal government has granted...
(Tim Gruver, The Center Square) A bipartisan bill intended to protect personal COVID data from third parties was vetoed by Gov. Jay Inslee this week, making waves across the political aisle.
Lawmakers filed House Bill 1127 to address data collection from contact tracing or the process by which investigators retrace an...
Indiana Republican Rep. Greg Pence, brother of former Vice President Mike Pence, claimed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wanted to leave the U.S. Capitol after the Jan. 6 riot.
“Nancy Pelosi said we can’t come back for two or three days,” Pence said. “He said as soon as the Capitol...
(Associated Press) In the early days of the pandemic, New Jersey Rep. Tom Malinowski scolded those looking to capitalize on the health crisis, saying it was “not the time for anybody to be profiting” from selling goods to combat the pandemic.
The two-term Democrat did not heed his own admonition.
Since early...