The Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrated their recent Super Bowl victory with a trip to the White House on Tuesday, but President Biden took the opportunity to urge unvaccinated players to “get one.” Bucs’ co-owner Bryan Glazer, head coach Bruce Arians, Tom Brady and several other members of the Super Bowl LV-winning team gathered outside the […]
Raffensperger ‘confident’ Georgia election law will ‘prevail’ after seeking dismissal of DOJ lawsuit
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the state is prepared to fight the Justice Department’s lawsuit against its election law up to the United States Supreme Court and is “confident” it will “prevail” after the state sought to dismiss the case altogether this week. Georgia filed a motion seeking a full dismissal of what […]
Manchin: No filibuster exception for Democrats’ voting rights bill
Sen. Joe Manchin says he “can’t imagine” supporting making an exception to Senate filibuster rules in order to pass the Democrats’ wide ranging elections and campaign finance reform bill, which is a top priority for his party. “I can’t imagine a carve-out,” the moderate Democratic senator from West Virginia said on Sunday during an interview […]
White House silent on if admin agrees with nominee that Omar’s dual loyalty comments were anti-Semitic
The White House has been silent on whether the Biden administration agrees with its anti-Semitism envoy nominee’s previous remark deeming a comment by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., to be anti-Semitic. In 2019, President Biden’s pick to be his administration’s envoy against anti-Semitism, Deborah Lipstadt, said she believed Omar’s comments about U.S. lawmakers having an “allegiance […]
Ilhan Omar, Keith Ellison support measure to replace Minneapolis Police Department
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison have endorsed a Minneapolis ballot measure that would replace the city’s police department with a new department of public safety. Question 2 on the Minneapolis ballot for the Nov. 2 election will ask voters if they want the city’s charter to be amended to replace […]
Pentagon spokesman declines to name ISIS terrorists killed in airstrike, says ‘no question’ target was ‘valid’
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby declined Friday to provide the names of the ISIS terrorists the military killed in airstrikes late last week and early this week, as the Biden administration worked to complete its withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. “I don’t believe we’ve refused to say who they are. We haven’t given you any […]
Military veteran creates nonprofit to get Americans, allies out of Afghanistan
A retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier has organized a nonprofit effort to get American citizens and Afghan allies safely out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan – and so far, he has had success evacuating nearly 1,000 individuals. AFGfree was founded by Lt. Col. Perry Blackburn, a member of the “Horse Soldiers” who were the first U.S. […]
Biden heads to hometown Scranton to pitch shrinking spending agenda
President Biden is traveling to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday to pitch his agenda amid reports that he has privately informed Democratic lawmakers that he will slash his proposed spending plan by nearly a trillion dollars in order to garner support from both progressives and moderate Democrats in Congress to get the package […]
NASA launches spacecraft to crash into asteroid
NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon […]
Texas man who got over $1M in COVID funds and bought Lamborghini gets long prison sentence
A Houston man has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison after he was accused of using federal COVID-19 relief funding on a Lamborghini, a Rolex watch and trips to strip clubs, federal prosecutors said. Lee Price III, 30, was sentenced Monday to 110 months in prison. Price pleaded guilty in September to […]