After a contentious redrawing of Alabama’s congressional map, two candidates will compete in November for a seat, and perhaps congressional controlShomari Figures, an attorney and Obama White House executive from a politically-prominent civil rights family, has won the Democratic nomination to run in Alabama’s redrawn second congressional district Tuesday night, defeating state representative Anthony Daniels.The runoff election has been closely watched because of its implications for control of...
Experts say the American Privacy Rights Act is a good first step but that more can be done to protect consumers from the sale of their personal data.
By: Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal After a key House committee advanced legislation this week to require a citizenship question on the U.S. Census, support for the measure could be growing in the backdrop of the border crisis and its potential impact on congressional reapportionment. Heritage Action, a policy advocacy arm of The Heritage Foundation,
After a key House committee advanced legislation this week to require a citizenship question on the U.S. Census, support for the measure could be growing Read More
The proposed District 6 would travel from Caddo and De Soto to East Baton Rouge, and plaintiffs say it is “extreme” with “twists and turns” to avoid pockets of whites.
The newly drawn map passed in the 2024 Special Legislative Session, created a second Black majority out of Louisiana's six districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act. Because 1/3 of voters in Louisiana are Black, the Act requires that the district be drawn to reflect that representation.
Since Democratic Rep. Katie Porter launched her losing bid for Senate, an air of discontent has simmered quietly — and not so quietly — among fellow Democrats. They had worked hard to flip her Orange County congressional seat from red to blue in 2018. Porter's decision to run for Senate against fellow Democratic Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Barbara Lee meant the swing-district House seat would be vacant, setting up an expensive race for Democrats — and a potential flip for Republicans — as each side...
Shomari Figures secured the Democratic nomination with 61% of the vote, totaling 21,926 votes over state House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, who received 13,990 votes.
Columbia University’s president strongly denounced antisemitism during a Congressional hearing Wednesday, saying after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, “the world changed, and so did my focus.” “Antisemitism has no place on our campus, and I am personally committed to doing everything I can to confront it directly,” President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik told the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce. “Israel was brutally attacked by Hamas terrorists and very soon it became clear that...
Photo: DEA.gov India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC – The Chinese Communist Party uses tax rebates to subsidize the manufacturing and export of fentanyl materials, a House panel which has Rep.Raja Krishnamoorthi as a ranking members, said in a report released on April 16. The House […]
Columbia University President Nemat "Minouche" Shafik testified Wednesday before a congressional committee investigating antisemitism on the New York City campus.
Free from the constraints of running for another term, U.S. Rep. Greg Pence, R-Indiana, freely talked about the state of Congress and more Monday in Greenwood. Continue reading at The Republic News.