Column: Congress Is right to call for the divestment of TikTok The Chinese Communist Party in Beijing is nervous — and it ought to be. The U.S. Congress has targeted a significant tool the CCP uses to spread disinformation among Americans, ... 03/27/2024 - 10:31 pm | View Link
Democrat Announces She's Leaving Congress She is the latest member of Congress to say they are departing at the end of the year, leaving open a Congressional district that has leaned Democratic in recent election cycles. Still, margins have ... 03/27/2024 - 4:37 am | View Link
Opinion: Good on Lisa Murkowski for having a backbone Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s refusal to back former President Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential election is a rare move among GOP officials, writes Jill Filipovic. As one of the last senators ... 03/26/2024 - 9:57 am | View Link
POINT: Congress right to call for divestment of TikTok By Mark Montgomery Guest Opinion The Chinese Communist Party in Beijing is nervous — and it ought to be. The U.S. Congress has targeted a significant tool the CCP uses to spread disinformation ... 03/24/2024 - 7:33 am | View Link
After a Century, the Federal Tea Board Is Finally Dead Imported tea was required for decades to pass a literal taste test before it could be sold in the United States. 03/16/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said the Republican party is currently threatening democracy and that the nation is undergoing a political shift, USA Today reports.
Said Cheney: “Certainly, what’s happening in the Republican party is dangerous. We now have one of our two major political parties that has abandoned the Constitution.”
She added: “We know Trump tried once not to leave office, and he will have no incentive to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power and to leave office should be selected again.
“Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro told Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Wednesday he had no reason to have sought asylum at the Hungarian embassy, after the court summoned him to explain why he stayed at the diplomatic compound for two nights in February,” Reuters reports.
The White House announced a new rule to curb so-called “junk health insurance,” rolling back a Trump-era expansion of short-term health insurance plans, CNN reports.
“A judge ruled Wednesday that the Georgia Republican Party’s first vice chairman, Brian Pritchard, violated state election laws when he voted nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
On Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s website is a campaign event created by a supporter called “the Save RFK Jr. Rally” which demands that he fire his campaign manager — who is RFK’s daughter-in-law — for “promoting a CIA, feminist agenda.”
“Kari Lake, a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona who has amplified former president Donald Trump’s false claims about rigged elections, has decided not to defend statements she made about a top election official in the state’s most populous county who sued her for alleged defamation,” the Washington Post reports.
“Attorneys for Lake, her 2022 campaign for governor and an affiliated nonprofit group on Tuesday asked a judge to begin the process of determining damages as part of a lawsuit brought by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (R), in his personal capacity.”