Politics

Alaska lawmakers have passed a state spending package, which includes a dividend of about $1,300 each to residents this year, and ended their special session after one day. The special session began and ended Thursday,…

Lawmakers in Louisiana received a revised better-than-expected revenue forecast saying there will be hundreds of millions of dollars in additional surplus funds available to spend in this year’s budget.Gov. John Bel Edward’s administration is seeking…

The FBI improperly used warrantless search powers against U.S. citizens more than 278,000 times in the year ending November 2021, according to an unsealed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) filing. U.S. citizens covered in that…

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., blasted Democratic Senator John Fetterman’s ‘unbecoming’ decision to attend a Senate press conference while wearing a hoodie and shorts. ‘John Fetterman redefined Casual Friday on a Thursday morning,’ Boebert wrote on…

EXCLUSIVE: One Republican lawmaker is officially calling for the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2018 award given to The New York Times and Washington Post for their reporting on the now-debunked Russia collusion hoax.…

The U.S. Border Patrol has agreed in a legal settlement to not set up interior checkpoints in a northern New Hampshire town just under 100 miles from the Canadian border before Jan. 1, 2025. The…

House Democrats’ campaign arm has launched a new website that targets moderate and vulnerable Republicans for supporting spending cuts outlined in Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) unveiled ‘GOPVotedToDefault.com,’…

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., said that if the U.S. can finance trillion-dollar wars, it can fund reparations. But Bush’s astronomical $14 trillion reparations proposal would cost nearly seven times that of the Afghanistan war. The Missouri…

Michigan’s revenue will be nearly $900 million less this year than forecasted in January due to new tax cuts, state officials said Friday, leaving lawmakers with less money to spend as they work toward the…

Generative artificial intelligence systems are already making it easier for scammers to con elderly Americans out of their money, and several senators are asking the Biden administration to step in and protect people from this…