BATON ROUGE, La. — Despite pleas from Democrats and gut-wrenching testimony from doctors and rape survivors, a GOP-controlled legislative committee rejected a bill Tuesday that would have added cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban. In the reliably red state, which is firmly ensconced in the Bible Belt and where even […]
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith‘s team urged the Supreme Court on Monday night to reject former President Donald Trump‘s claim that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The brief from prosecutors was submitted just over two weeks before the […]
ATLANTA — Georgia Republicans shot down a last-ditch attempt by Democrats to expand Medicaid on Thursday in a state Senate committee, frustrating Democrats who say GOP leaders broke a promise to advance the bill. The Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee rejected the plan on a tie 7-7 vote, after two Republicans and five Democrats […]
Leadership with the Teamsters blasted brewer Anheuser-Busch’s latest contract offer Wednesday, just two days before thousands of union members could strike. According to a Wednesday statement, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien said the beer giant’s proposal hasn’t addressed the union’s most important demands. “The new offer that Anheuser-Busch put on the table this morning continues to […]
The National Federation of Independent Business is calling on a Senate committee to reject the nomination of Julie Su for secretary of labor. The nomination of Ms. Su, who is currently the acting labor secretary, will get a vote Tuesday by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Jeff Brabant, NFIB vice president […]
Democrats embody the old saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again.” Whether it’s in the courts or among electoral authorities, Democrats will keep pleading and litigating until they get the result they want. Such is the case of the redrawing of congressional district maps for New […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — Democrats in the New York Legislature on Monday rejected a congressional map drawn by the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission, setting the stage for the party to craft lines that help Democrats in battleground House races that could determine control of Congress. The Democrat-dominated state Legislature will now have to submit and approve […]
DAKAR, Senegal — West Africa’s regional bloc on Sunday called for dialogue to resolve the political crisis in Senegal as opposition leaders rejected the decision by the country’s leader to postpone the Feb. 25 presidential election over an electoral dispute between parliament and the judiciary. Senegalese politicians must “prioritize dialogue and collaboration for transparent, inclusive […]
Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is likening President Biden and former President Donald Trump to the crotchety characters from the rom-com “Grumpy Old Men.” The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has ratcheted up her age-based attacks against Mr. Trump in the GOP nomination race in the hopes of weakening him before the Feb. […]
Consider this the one point of agreement between Israel and the terror network that has conducted war against it for nearly 20 years. Although perhaps there could be another point of agreement now as well — that October 7 changed everything. For Israel, it finally woke them from their fantasy that Hamas would turn into a […]
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