At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Pennsylvania delegate James Wilson brought up a seemingly un-American idea. He said the executive branch of America’s government should be headed by a single person: a president. Several constitutional delegates objected. A single leader at the helm? Virginia delegate Edmund Randolph said this was the “fetus of monarchy.” America had just fought a bloody war to free themselves of a king. Why would they want another? Randolph and his allies believed the...
WEIRTON, W.Va. (WTRF) -- In December, the Pittsburgh-based steel company U.S. Steel agreed to sell the company to Japan’s largest steel manufacturer, Nippon Steel. Now, two U.S. Senators are calling on President Biden to look deeper into this sale and the effects it could have on the country. Just months after U.S. Steel agreed to []
Former Trump White House attorney Jim Schultz says that Trump's post about
With the death of Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ) and the resignation of Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), just 429 members fill the 435 seats in the House of Representatives as of Wednesday. Republicans control a razor-thin majority of 217 seats, with Democrats in control of 212 seats. In California, the open seat of former Speaker Kevin […]
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted in favor of a bill that could lead to the ban of the popular platform TikTok in the country. The post U.S. House of Representatives Approves Bill Forcing TikTok to Sale Amid National Security Concerns first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.
Larry Hogan is crisscrossing Maryland to reassemble the coalition of Republicans, independents and level-headed Democrats who twice sent him to the governor’s mansion in the deep-blue state.
In his "This Week with Gosar" newsletter Monday, U.S. Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ-09) said that during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing, every Democrat voted against H.R. 7109, the Equal Representation Act, which would add a citizenship question to the decennial census. An amended version of the legislation passed the committee vote (22-20) and awaits further action on the House floor. Gosar, who serves on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, stated that...
BATON ROUGE - After 41 years of sitting in her cradle in downtown Baton Rouge, the USS Kidd is headed to Houma for some much needed repairs.“She was never designed to go up and down on a cradle like she's been sitting in for 41 years, and the plates where they join and that has to be strengthened form the inside," former Louisiana Congressman Henson Moore said.The Kidd was the 661st destroyer built by the U.S. Navy and launched in 1943, serving in both WWII and the Korean War. She was...
CNN reports that so far, and in lightening quick fashion seven people have been seated on the jury in the unprecedented Donald Trump hush money trial in Manhattan. Court will not be in session Wednesday. Jury selection will continue Thursday until prosecutors and defense counsel can agree on 12 jurors and probably six alternates in […] The post Here’s What We Know About the Jurors Seated in Trump’s Historic Criminal Trial first appeared on The Source.
NEW DELHI (AP) — The world’s largest democratic election could also be one of its most consequential. With a population of over 1.4 billion people and close to 970 million voters, India’s general election pits Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an avowed Hindu nationalist, against a broad alliance of opposition parties that are struggling to play []
WASHINGTON >> President Joe Biden said today he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending crucial bipartisan support to the effort this week to approve $95 billion in funding for the U.S. allies.
Imagine a large group of activists assembled outside the White House, peacefully protesting a recent decision by the president. They are waving signs denouncing the new policy, holding banners demanding change and chanting slogans about that president. As their numbers begin to swell, as their voices grow louder, the president issues an order to military commanders: Take them out. Our military leadership would then be faced with an impossible choice. They’d either have to follow the clearly...