The Senate voted Thursday to advance development of a controversial spying tool, clearing it for final passage ahead of Friday's deadline. In a 67-32 vote, the Senate invoked cloture, allowing debate on the bill to begin. Senate leaders and intelligence officials have stressed the need to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Authority (FISA) or else “America will go blind.” “With less than a week until FISA authorities expire, time is a luxury the Senate does not...
Julie Mayberry takes a jab at Sarah Huckabee Sanders with an attempt to clarify that the rules apply to the governor, too.
More than 1 million people keep Oregon Health Plan benefits due to efforts to expand coverage options SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — With more than 90 percent of the state’s 1.5 million renewals complete, more than 4 out of 5 Oregonians are keeping their Oregon Health Plan or other Medicaid benefits. During the COVID-19 Public Health
The estimate is about double earlier estimates. 'The cost has not just risen. It has exploded'. The US and Israel Defense Forces engineers are partnering to get in more aid
Calls for the National Guard to stop campus protests are not about safety.
The Republicans’ House majority is teetering on the brink of collapse, but the dysfunction doesn’t appear to have put much of a damper on their 2024 prospects. Republicans lead in the generic congressional ballot, which measures which party respondents would prefer to see in the majority, by 1.6 points, according to the latest RealClearPolitics polling […]
The Senate’s newly passed $95 billion package does next to nothing for Americans and does much more to fund endless war — especially with the billions in the package going toward Ukraine. “It does not secure our border; it goes in and takes more money and straps your children and your grandchildren with another $95 billion. It gives money to Taiwan, which hacks off the Chinese,” Glenn Beck explains. However, the blame can’t be laid entirely at the feet of the Democrats. Republicans are...
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is fighting a proposal that would give federal authorities control over the Ohio National Guard.
Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD used their special clearance more often in 2023, as reported by the Investigatory Powers Commission (TIB) in its annual report. The regulator received 3,383 requests from the services to use these clearances, just under 17 percent more than in 2022.The services can follow or observe people, use officers, or tap data traffic in their investigations. On most occasions, they need permission from outgoing minister Hugo de Jonge (Interior Affairs), whose...
If, as promised, former President Donald Trump were to change thousands of civil service jobs into politically appointed positions at the start of a second term, huge numbers of federal workers could face being fired, warn policy experts.
If, as promised, former President Donald Trump were to change thousands of civil service jobs into politically appointed positions at the start of a second term, huge numbers of federal workers could face being fired, warn policy experts.
Kanawha and Monongalia counties received good scores.