Former President Donald Trump still maintains a strong lead in Iowa ahead of the GOP presidential caucus on Monday with strong enthusiasm from supporters, unlike former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, whose backers lack the same enthusiasm, according to a new poll released by the Des…
Read More Nearly Half Of Iowa Trump Supporters Are ‘Extremely’ Enthusiastic
Congress intends to vote on a stopgap funding bill next week that would fund the government through early March, according to multiple reports. Punchbowl News reported that congressional leaders agreed on a continuing resolution (CR) to prevent a government shutdown from happening on Friday. The…
Read More Congressional Leaders Reach Agreement To Fund Government Until March
A New York judge ordered former President Donald Trump Friday to pay $392,638 in legal fees to The New York Times. New York Supreme Court Justice Robert Reed awarded the fees Friday after dismissing last May a lawsuit Trump filed against the outlet and three of its…
Read More Judge Orders Donald Trump To Pay New York Times Nearly $400,000
Border Patrol agents are quietly applauding Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to seize property along the border, several of them told the Daily Caller News Foundation on the condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak publicly. The Texas Department of Public Safety seized the…
Read More US Border Patrol Agents Quietly Support Texas Move To Seize Area Of Border
Top Biden administration officials recommended that marijuana be classified under the much less regulated Schedule III class of banned substances instead of its current Schedule I classification, in documents released to the public on Friday. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary for health at the Department of…
Read More Biden Regulators Request Marijuana Restrictions Be Eased
Federal tax revenues, federal spending and the federal deficit were all higher in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 than they were in the first quarter of fiscal 2023, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released on Thursday. In the first quarter of fiscal 2023 (October-December 2022),…
Read More Federal Taxes, Spending, And Deficit All Up From First Quarter Of FY2023 To FY2024
Taiwan voters on Saturday elected Democratic Progressive Party candidate William Lai over objections and pressure from China, according to multiple reports. The election of Lai, who the Chinese foreign ministry called in August a “separatist through and through,” could increase Chinese Communist Party pressure on Taiwan, Axios reported.…
Read More Taiwan Voters Ignore China’s Warnings To Pick Next President
Several U.S. government departments will shut down in less than one week unless Congress passes legislation to fund them. Under the terms of a continuing resolution passed on Nov. 15, funding for the departments of Agriculture, Energy, Veterans Affairs, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development…
Read More Time Is Running Out To Fund The Government. Here’s What Could Happen Next
The Biden administration proposed a new regulation Friday that would impose fines on oil and gas companies for methane emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced. The policy would require companies to pay a penalty of $900 per every ton of methane emitted beyond limits…
Read More Biden Admin Unveils ‘Natural Gas Tax’ Proposal
Police are looking into a potential arson outside the home of a blue-city mayoral candidate who has positioned himself as being tough on crime. Rene Gonzalez is a Portland commissioner running for mayor in 2024 with a campaign focused on tackling “skyrocketing crime and out-of-control homelessness” in…
Read More Portland Police Open Arson Probe After Car Set Ablaze Outside Tough-On-Crime Mayoral Candidate’s Home