Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
Iran president still a force even as his era ends When many struggling families in this eastern Iranian city take stock of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's legacy, it's not about the oratory full of bluster and menace or his tussles with Iran's ruling clerics that are known to much of the world. More
Obama to open middle-class jobs, opportunity tour Aiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect ideas from his State of the Union address that became overshadowed by the intense debates over gun control, immigration and automatic spending cuts. More
Veteran DEA agent sentenced to 3 years for bribing former colleague to leak intelligence A former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisor has been sentenced to three years in prison for bribing a longtime colleague to leak DEA intelligence to Miami defense lawyers seeking to ... 05/14/2024 - 8:34 am | View Link
Police search for stolen gun, suspect in attack on off-duty officer Philadelphia police continue to search for a suspect and a missing gun after an off-duty officer was attacked, robbed of his weapon and struck by a car following an argument and fight over the weekend ... 05/14/2024 - 5:45 am | View Link
Philly police arrest man they say attacked officer, stole his gun, and hit him with a car A man attacked an off-duty officer before wresting away his personal firearm and hitting the officer with a car as he fled the scene, part of a melee that erupted in North Philadelphia and left the ... 05/13/2024 - 1:57 am | View Link
Port Huron police officer charged with drunk driving The officer, who police have not yet identified to the public, has been charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He has been placed on administrative leave while police investigate the ... 05/9/2024 - 10:02 am | View Link
Port Huron police officer accused of driving drunk off-duty charged The officer has been placed on an administrative leave while an internal investigation is conducted, they said. 05/9/2024 - 5:38 am | View Link
Pop superstar Beyoncé gave Vice President Kamala Harris tickets worth $1,656 to one of her shows in 2023, according to financial disclosures released by the White House that provide detailed information on the finances of President Joe Biden, his running mate, first lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.
The documents list the values of their assets and provide their income and debts in broad ranges.
(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that also bans power-generating wind turbines offshore or near the state’s lengthy coastline.
Critics said the measure made law by the former Republican presidential hopeful ignores the reality of climate change threats in Florida, including projections of rising seas, extreme heat and flooding and increasingly severe storms.
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It takes effect July 1 and would also boost expansion of natural gas, reduce regulation on gas pipelines in the state and increase protections against bans on gas appliances such as stoves, according to a news release from the governor’s office.
DeSantis, who suspended his presidential campaign in January and later endorsed his bitter rival Donald Trump, called the bill a common-sense approach to energy policy.
“We’re restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots,” DeSantis said in a post on the X social media platform.
Florida is already about 74% reliant on natural gas to power electric generation, according to the U.
Erstwhile GOP presidential candidate and current vice-presidential hopeful Ben Carson has joined right-wing peers like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson in supporting the end—or at least the rolling back—of no-fault divorce laws across the nation.
“For the sake of families,” the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development wrote in his book, The Perilous Fight, released Tuesday, “We should enact legislation to remove or radically reduce incidences of no-fault divorce.”
Over the past year, I have been tracking the rise of men on the right, both elected and civilian, who think it ought to be harder to get divorced in this country.
To the extent that nothing is too small for the left to despoil, it’s up to each of us to act (legally, of course) to stop those depredations, for even the small ones add up.