Activists on Saturday demanded that the state of California pay millions of dollars to each Black resident in reparations as a way to make amends for slavery and subsequent discrimination,…
Economy
Biden touts 82-year-old age in 2024 as a benefit: ‘I know more than the vast majority of people’
President Joe Biden attempted to ease concerns about his age in an interview Friday by framing his 80 years of life experience as a positive rather than a negative. ‘Because…
New Jersey Democrats slam Biden administration approval of congestion pricing plan for New York
The Department of Transportation has given the green light to New York’s controversial congestion pricing plan, which would impose a toll on drivers who attempt to enter Manhattan during peak…
Former Vice President Mike Pence defended Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from what he called malicious attacks against the conservative Black jurist. ‘Ever since his nomination to the Supreme Court…
Ted Cruz challenger said it would’ve been ‘better’ if Second Amendment ‘had not been written’
A challenger to Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said it would have been ‘better’ if the Second Amendment ‘hadn’t been written.’ In a resurfaced video from 2018, Rep. Colin Allred,…
Biden nominee backs US-funded border wall in Jordan ‘to provide physical security’
President Biden’s nominee to serve as U.S. ambassador to Jordan said she supports U.S. funding to provide a border wall in the country, saying it provides the U.S. ally with…
The mandatory supervised driving period in North Carolina for young people before they can drive by themselves will be scaled back permanently after Gov. Roy Cooper said on Friday he’ll…
Vermont Legislature passes 3-day gun buy waiting period, but Gov. Scott apprehensive
The Vermont Legislature on Friday passed a bill that would impose a 72-hour waiting period for all firearm purchases, which lawmakers claim will help stem suicides and impulsive violent acts.The…
A historical marker in Concord, New Hampshire, dedicated to former U.S. Communist Party chairwoman Elizabeth Gurley Flynn has come under Republican scrutiny for its potential connotations.Department of Natural and Cultural…
Dem congressman who literally represents Wall Street raises eyebrows with stock trades
A first-term Democratic congressman representing Wall Street has become one of Congress’s most prolific stock traders, and recently sold shares in a troubled California bank just days before the stock…