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...
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A few numbers illustrate Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) precarious hold on the gavel and the dilemma for House Republicans more broadly. The Ukraine aid package that is the latest policy imperiling Johnson was opposed by 112 Republicans while only 101 voted yes. (That is identical to the breakdown among Republicans on the March $1.2 trillion […]
Rebecca Gordon If you work for a living, or if you know and love people who do, there’s a lot on the line in this year’s election.
It has been nearly two years since the groundbreaking Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization left Republicans floundering. The abortion issue has long defined the GOP and cemented its standing as the moral political party. There are other issues of great concern, but from a conservative perspective, abortion tops them all. […]
Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the last nine months — May 2023 through February 2024 — set a world record for heat. As I’m writing this, March still has a More
In today’s edition Arizona’s abortion ruling threatens to upend 2024 races Biden meets with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida today.
Today is the final day West Virginians can register to be eligible to vote in the May 14 Primary Election. If the trend continues, the final numbers before the election will show that Republican registration will have grown, while Democratic registration will have declined or remained static. Currently, 40.3 percent of all registered voters are
Even Donald Trump acknowledged Monday that the independent candidate "probably hurts both" Biden and him.
Cannabis regulation isn’t obvious as a Republican strength. But it should be. So should backing federal legislation would finally permit commercial banks to have cannabis companies as customers.
Richard Nixon infected the modern Republican party with a sickness that would kill it – Donald Trump has finished the jobLast Sunday, on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos asked Chris Sununu, New Hampshire’s Republican governor, about his recent switch from supporting Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, for the Republican presidential nomination to supporting former president Donald Trump.“Your words were very, very clear on January 11, 2021,” Stephanopoulos reminded...
For centuries the Democrats have been the “tax and spend guys.” They’re the party of American Treasury confiscatory distribution — to themselves.