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
Coalition on immigration bill clears first tests The bipartisan coalition behind a contentious overhaul of immigration laws stuck together on a critical early series of test votes Thursday, turning back challenges from conservative critics as the Senate Judiciary Committee refined legislation to secure the nation's borders and offer eventual citizenship to millions living illegally in the United States. 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
GOP boycotts health care advisory board House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
Johnny Reid Fire It Up Live Johnny Reid, the two-time JUNO Award winner and acclaimed multi-platinum singer-songwriter celebrates the release of his new album, 'Fire It Up' with new songs, as well as his classics. CMT's Paul ... 05/10/2024 - 4:46 pm | View Link
Vegas has no NBA team (yet) but can it support 2 arena projects? Two multibillion-dollar resorts — both with arenas that would be capable of hosting a National Basketball Association team — are in the works for Southern Nevada. They leave the public wondering: Are ... 05/10/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Prince Harry Prince Harry attended St Paul’s Cathedral with his mother Diana’s relatives while the King and Queen hosted a garden party. The Duke of Sussex, 39, arrived in the UK on Tuesday afternoon for the ... 05/8/2024 - 9:02 pm | View Link
How proposed Maryland Parkway project will affect nearby Las Vegas community It’s a stretch of road that has been talked about for years and now changes planned to improve the speed of bus service and overall safety on the road are about to become a reality. 05/7/2024 - 3:20 pm | View Link
Royal news Prince Harry will stay at a hotel when he returns to the UK and not a royal residence despite being fifth in line to the throne. This has been customary for the Duke of Sussex since he stepped down as ... 05/7/2024 - 3:57 am | View Link
Georgia MAGA/QAnon/Klan Mom Marjorie Taylor Greene told traitor Steve Bannon (she's apparently a regular now on his show?) how furious she is that Speaker Johnson will not put forth a bill to defund Special Counsel Jack Smith.
First, Marge made sure to explain why Speaker Johnson makes her sick.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: He made me sick to my stomach this morning, ma'am.
Trump soiling himself in court again has even Laura Ingraham complaining.
Source: Newsweek
Fox News host Laura Ingraham has said the courtroom where Donald Trump is on trial for alleged hush-money payments smells "musty."
"To give you a sense of what the GOP front-runner has been dealing with the past three weeks: The air is musty," Ingraham said on an episode of The Ingraham Angle.
Elbridge Colby "is an American national security policy professional who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development from 2017 to 2018 during the Trump administration," Wikipedia told me. He's also the grandson of William Colby who was the Director of the CIA in the mid-1970s.
Speaker of the House (barely) Mike Johnson told the press that his office, along with MAGA cultists James Comer and Jim Jordan, are seeking to interfere with the Special Counsel's case against Donald Trump in the secret documents case.
Johnson first claimed he was in Manhattan just acting as a friend when he decided to join Trump at the courthouse.
Boston Globe: “Maybe pencil in the dates, but don’t write it down with a permanent marker.”
“Coming up with dates, times and a television partner is the easy part. Agreeing to everything else, including who will moderate, could be very thorny especially when it is two campaigns in direct negotiations. Before the commission would just tell the candidates how the debates would be run and who would moderate.”
“These agreed-upon debates could go haywire for any number of reasons.”
“Among those skeptical these debates will happen?
“A jury was selected and sworn in Wednesday for the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ),” ABC News reports.
“Federal prosecutors in New York have alleged that the New Jersey Democrat accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars, mortgage payments and a luxury convertible in exchange for the senator’s political clout.