The States

 Vice President and now-Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris formally accepted the party’s nomination on the final day of the Democratic National Convention Thursday night in Chicago. Police officials made mass arrests Tuesday night after pro-Palestinian protestors confronted and attacked police officers near the Israeli consulate during the Democratic National Convention. The Washington...

The DNC is coming up next week. California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a video blaming oil companies’ “greed” and “price gouging” for the state’s gas prices, which, at an average of $4.60 per gallon, are $1.16 above the national average. The federal deficit so far this fiscal year has already hit $1.5 trillion, the U.S. Treasury Department reported in its monthly fiscal update. The Cleveland Browns w...

Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday night in her first official appearance with her new running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Budget burdens, pharmaceutical options and hyperbaric oxygen therapy are concerns North Carolina congressmen in the Senate and House of Representatives are raising with Veterans Affairs. Biden-Harris administration policies are r...

As the presidential race between Vice President Harris and Former President Trump takes a more definite form, polling shows a close race. A federal appeals court has ruled that the Biden administration can’t implement its Title IX rules in an additional four states, bringing the total number of statewide injunctions to 26 as the rules went into effect this week. The failures of the Secret Service...

 Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris is nearly tied with former President Donald Trump in national polling, according to the latest survey results. The numbers reveal an entirely new political landscape after a tumultuous few weeks in the presidential race, beginning with a disastrous debate performance by Biden, which led to widespread calls for his leavin...

The U.S. Secret Service is facing an array of tough questions, calls for accountability, firings and investigations this week as well as public feuding with local law enforcement in the wake of the assassination attempt last weekend. Just after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning parental notification for gender change requests from K-12 students, entrepreneur Elon Musk announce...

In his first news conference since his critically panned debate performance two weeks ago, President Joe Biden on Thursday made numerous mistakes while talking for about an hour on a range of policy issues. Ahead of the Republican National Convention next week, Republicans who once criticized former President Donald Trump are on the presumptive Republican nominees' short-list for vice president. O...

The president of the United States has "absolute immunity" when acting in his core constitutional duties, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision Monday. Hawaii entered into a settlement in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that requires the state to implement climate change initiatives by court order, setting forth a potential template for lawsuits in other states. The U.S. Supreme Court la...

Two federal judges on Monday ruled to block part of President Joe Biden's recent attempt to indefinitely postpone or cancel nearly half a trillion dollars in student loan debt. The Jacksonville Jaguars became the second NFL team this week to get a large sum of public money for a stadium renovation when the City Council voted 14-1 to approve $775 million toward a $1.4 billion renovation of EverBank...

President Joe Biden announced a new plan on Tuesday that will fast track a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals who’ve been living in the country illegally for more than 10 years and married a U.S. citizen. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed Senate Bill 313 into law on Wednesday, which will create the state's first universal education savings account program for K-12 e...

A Delaware jury convicted President Joe Biden's son of gun charges on Tuesday, marking the first-ever criminal conviction of a president's son. There is now a criminal investigation underway by Attorney General Kris Mayes’ office into a group home company’s donations to Gov. Katie Hobbs and the state Democratic Party. Former President Donald Trump panned the Biden administration's border security...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced what he dubbed a border security plan – five months ahead of the November election and after at least 11 million foreign nationals illegally entered the country since his inauguration. While demand for electricity is set to significantly increase by 2040, planning is not in place to increase electricity production to meet those estimates, according to a new...

Former President Donald Trump lost in the courtroom Thursday, but Trump and his rival, President Joe Biden, are looking ahead to the November election. An amended education savings account bill has passed the Louisiana House of Representatives. The Texas state legislature now has enough votes to pass school choice initiatives after Tuesday's Republican primary runoff election , Gov. Greg Abbott sa...

Lawmakers have threatened to revoke the appropriations for a federally-funded scholarship program that an audit found favors liberally leaning students over conservatives by a ratio of 10 to 1. The 'Zero Emission' electric fire engines being adopted in cities across the country have diesel engines to help pump water when the battery runs low, but this is rarely mentioned in news coverage or promot...

Congress has spent more money on interest so far this year than it has spent on either national defense or Medicare. Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks will square off in November in a bid for the U.S. Senate, following decisive wins in their primary races. Jim Justice will be the Republican candidate for Senate in West Virginia while Patrick Mo...

A judge on Monday fined former President Donald Trump for violating a gag order in his New York hush money case for a tenth time. A plan for school vouchers in Pennsylvania emerged from hibernation on Tuesday. Wisconsin Republican lawmakers want to know exactly what diversity, equity and inclusion is doing in state government and what it is costing. California Governor Gavin Newsom took to the top...

Several Republican attorneys general have sued over the Biden administration’s Title IX rule change, arguing it is illegal. More states are expected to follow. Tennessee school staff are now eligible to concealed carry firearms at school if they have met the criteria and gained proper approval. Officials at Columbia finally gave the green light for the New York Police Department to enter a recentl...

 A Jewish Yale student was  reportedly  stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag during a pro-Hamas protest on campus over the weekend, the latest incident highlighting the ongoing tensions on college campuses since the Hamas terror group attacked Israel Oct. 7 and ignited an ongoing war. California seized over one million fentanyl pills just last week, more than was seized in all of February, h...

The federal government loses up to $521 billion a year to fraud, according to a first-of-its-kind estimate from a Congressional watchdog. The Arizona State Legislature did not repeal an abortion law created in 1864 banning nearly all abortions on Wednesday for the second week in a row. However, the Senate did begin the process on a new bill Wednesday. As tensions continue to rise in the Middle Eas...

A coalition of states has filed a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s latest executive effort to forgive a portion of Americans' student loan debt. Norfolk Southern reached a $600 million settlement in a class action lawsuit filed after a toxic train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Consumer prices continued to rise at an elevated rate in March, according to newly released federa...

The federal government reported hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in improper payments last fiscal year and trillions over the last two decades. Kansas City’s professional football and baseball teams promised to stay in Jackson County if a 40-year sales tax to pay for stadiums was approved on Tuesday, but voters rejected the plan. The number of Chinese nationals illegally entering the U.S....

Americans want states to have a role in stopping the flood of illegal immigration, which comes as the federal government and Texas grapple over who has the right to secure the southern border amidst the ongoing crisis there. The closure of the Port of Baltimore caused by the ship collision that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge will likely have a greater impact on the local economy, but the u...

Former President Donald Trump is narrowly beating President Joe Biden in a head-to-head faceoff going into November, a new national poll shows but third party candidates could increase that margin for Trump. Passing the the bar exam will no longer be a requirement for becoming a lawyer in Washington state, the state Supreme Court ruled in a pair of orders. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argumen...

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday confirmed that a smuggling organization working with the terrorist organization ISIS is funneling criminals through the U.S. border. Legislation dubbed by some as the "natural gas ban bill" and a " hot mess " by Lt. Gov. Denny Heck last week, passed the Washington State Legislature early Wednesday morning. President Joe Biden's budget proposal seeks to set a...

Biden gave the State of the Union address this week. As pay-to-play accusations fly around California's fast food minimum wage exceptions, the state legislature considers new exceptions. After Super Tuesday Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican primary race. The Chicago Teachers Union is gearing up for collective bargaining talks with the city. A study looking at equitable grading reforms rais...