Former Vice President Mike Pence has a Trump problem, strategists and officials in the former president’s orbit say. For Pence to successfully carve out a path to the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, he must simultaneously win over swaths of former President Trump’s base and create distance from the former president to chart a new […]
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Fort Hood Soldier Has Been Reported Missing
Fort Hood officials are asking the public for help in their search for Jennifer Sewell, a soldier on the Texas base who is missing. Sewell was last seen around 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 7 leaving her on-post barracks, according to the Fort Hood Directorate of Emergency Services. Sewell is a private first class soldier […]
Grocery Shelves To Remain Bare This Year
If you hoped grocery stores this fall and winter would look like they did in the Before Times, with limitless options stretching out before you in the snack, drink, candy and frozen foods aisles, get ready for some disappointing news. Many of the country’s biggest food makers are telling grocers that they will have limited […]
Hunter Biden Art Show Raises All Kind Of Ethical Red Flags
Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son and nascent artist, appeared at his first art exhibition last week where he mingled with prospective buyers. Hunter’s art dealings – in which his paintings are priced at up to $500,000 – have alarmed ethics experts, particularly due to his lack of formal art experience. Hunter’s attendance at the event […]
Report Shows Trump Pressured DOJ To Overturn Election
WASHINGTON — Top Justice Department officials and White House lawyers made clear to then-President Donald Trump in early January that they would all resign from the administration if Trump replaced his acting attorney general with an ally who had been pushing his effort to overturn the 2020 election. That’s according to a nearly 400-page report […]
John Kerry Says Biden Woefully Unaware
White House Climate Envoy John Kerry went viral on Tuesday after telling French television that President Biden was unaware of the spat between the U.S. and France as it fueled last month. During a Monday interview with BFMTV, Kerry attempted to smooth over the international dustup after France expressed it was blindsided by the Biden […]
Trump Poll Numbers Reach Record Highs In Iowa
Days ahead of his first visit this year to the state that kicks off the White House race, a new poll indicates former President Trump is more popular than ever in Iowa. Fifty-three percent of Iowans have a favorable view of the former president and 45% hold an unfavorable view, according to a Des Moines […]
Prisons Being Built With Covid Relief Tax Dollars
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Amid a national debate over the use of pandemic relief funds, Alabama lawmakers swiftly approved a plan Friday to tap $400 million from the American Rescue Plan to help build two super-size prisons, brushing off criticism from congressional Democrats that the money was not intended for such projects. The Alabama Legislature gave […]
Public School Kids Required To Get Vaccine?
California will add the Covid-19 vaccination to immunizations required for in-person school attendance, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in San Francisco Friday morning. The requirements will be phased in by grade groups — 7-12 and K-6 — and will start for each group only after the Food and Drug Administration fully approves the vaccine for that […]
Supreme Court Asked To Hear Vaccine Mandate Case
A group of New York City public school teachers who refuse COVID-19 inoculation have asked the Supreme Court to block a vaccine mandate set to take effect Friday. The teachers, who expressed various reasons for refusing to vaccinate, are united in their view that New York City’s public health measure runs afoul of the law. […]
Democrat Infighting Threatens Gov’t Shutdown
The warring factions of the Democratic Party are digging in on their competing positions surrounding President Biden’s domestic agenda, raising the prospect that a bipartisan infrastructure bill will fail if it hits the House floor on Thursday. The internal stalemate is raising new questions about whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will punt again on a […]
Reagan Shooter Granted Unconditional Release From Prison
John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, said last year that he’s “happy as a clam” living his life in Virginia. Hinckley, 63, told mental health professionals he’s “the happiest I’ve ever been in my life,” according to a mental health evaluation that was conducted in 2018 and […]