Kansas to recount abortion amendment vote
August 15, 2022
The suspect in the May shootings at a Dallas hair salon that injured three Asian female victims was indicted on Tuesday on hate crime charges, among several others. The alleged gunman, 37-year old Jeremy Smith, has been charged with seven counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, with hate[Read More…]
New York Mayor Eric Adams lashed out at Texas Governor Greg Abbott this week as the two continue to spar over Abbott’s transportation of migrants from the Southern border to New York and Washington, DC. Governor Abbott announced he had ramped up the busing of migrants to New York and[Read More…]
Officials announced this week they had found the presence of the polio virus in the wastewater in Rockland County, New York. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered the virus in samples collected from the wastewater in Rockland County, not far from New York City. The samples were[Read More…]
The New Zealand government has proposed a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the country that includes a tax on methane gas emissions, specifically. The nation with twice as many cattle as people will begin taxing farmers on their methane emissions in 2025. According to the proposal, almost half[Read More…]
Former Puerto Rico governor Wanda Vázquez was arrested by authorities on Thursday in San Juan on suspicion of bribery related to the funding of her 2020 political campaign. Vázquez is accused of being part of a bribery scheme that took place from 2019 to 2020, involving several co-conspirators, including a[Read More…]
Two sources close to the investigation told NBC News on Thursday that Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. both testified under oath in the last week in the New York civil tax probe into the Trump Organization. According to the sources, Ivanka Trump testified on Wednesday, while Donald Trump Jr.[Read More…]
A gun violence activist who is known for painting anti-gun murals around the city was a victim of one of ten shootings Baltimore law enforcement officials responded to this weekend. Tyree Moorehead is known in Baltimore for his many painted messages in places where city residents had been shot and[Read More…]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday that she, along with a Congressional delegation, had traveled to the Korean Demilitarized Zone during the Speaker’s Asian tour. The announcement came in the same week as Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan made headlines, causing heightened tensions in the region and in US-China relations.[Read More…]
In a stark contrast to polling in 2018 that showed Democrats with a 40-point lead over Republicans when it came to Hispanic voters, a CBS poll published this week showed Hispanic voters almost evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. The massive shift in voting preferences in the Hispanic voting bloc[Read More…]
Democratic strategist Michael Starr Hopkins penned an op-ed in The Guardian this week that claimed rising progressive star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is the Democrats’ best hope as a presidential candidate in 2024. “She is a force to be reckoned with, and in 2024 Democrats are going to need her[Read More…]