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 […]
COVID-19 vaccine: Children under 12 begin receiving vaccines in some European countries
Greece and a handful of other European Union members began vaccinating children ages 5-11 against COVID-19 on Wednesday as governments braced for the holiday season and the spread of the omicron variant. An Athens children’s hospital administered its first shots to younger children hours after authorities announced Greece’s highest daily death of the pandemic at […]
Zeldin, Republican running for NY governor, slams Hochul, Dems over mandates: ‘Can’t afford to survive here’
Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., doubling down on criticism of Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate, said he aims to flip the Empire State from blue to red for the first time in two decades come 2022 because “many New Yorkers feel like they can’t afford to survive here.” Zeldin, speaking to Fox News […]