It was a big day for a local non-profit.
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags The 2024 federal budget announced on April 16 included plans to introduce “halal mortgages” as a way to increase access to home
Despite pleas from House Speaker Mike Johnson that he stay on, Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher followed through on his plans to resign from Congress on Saturday. The direct result of Gallagher’s departure is that Johnson can now afford just a single GOP defection on any given vote. That in turn means Johnson, who is already heavily dependent on Democrats to pass any legislation, will grow even more reliant on them. The math—if you’re Johnson—is grim. With Gallagher gone, Republicans hold just 217...
Officials of the Bureau of Immigration (BI), Department of National Defense (DND) and local government units will be invited to the Senate hearing on the influx of Chinese students in Cagayan, Sen. Risa Hontiveros said yesterday.
A major foreign aid package is about to get a vote in the Senate. The legislation passed in the House over the weekend and would send aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Iowa House lawmakers approved a bill to increase statewide elected official pay by $10,000 next year on Thursday. The bill would also include a cost-of-living increase for Iowa lawmaker’s pay, similar to the amount the state agrees with public employee unions. Rep. Joel Fry, R-Osceola who led the bill Thursday, said the proposal will help
US CAPITOL (ANDREW BERNARD / JNS) Columbia University’s president, its two board co-chairs and a co-chair of its antisemitism taskforce testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Wednesday about Jew-hatred on campus since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. Student groups and professors celebrated Hamas’s attack and have since held antisemitic and anti-Israel […]
BATON ROUGE - This morning, 2une In's Brandi B. Harris spoke with Councilwoman Chauna Banks to discuss upcoming housing and food access events for the residents of Scotlandville. Permalink| Comments
(JNS) – Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday in Israel, and on Friday with Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The senator declared his strong support for Israel and noted the threat from radical groups in the United States. Gallant told the senator about the security situation in Israel, […]
A rare meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US
A round table with the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA), officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and community leaders was held at the Armstrong Renaissance Community Center on Tuesday, April 23.
An intruder was arrested after breaking in to the Getty House, the official