The White House criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for blindsiding it with a video that accuses the U.S. of withholding weapons from his country. The Washington Times stories: White House
Read More...With both Senate and House lawmakers advancing legislation that aligns with President Joe Biden’s 2% federal pay raise request, civilian federal employees appear to be a step closer to a smaller pay bump for 2025. The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act last week showed support for a 2% raise for DoD civilian workers and a 4.5% raise for military members. In a vote of 22-3 on June 13, committee lawmakers advanced the 2025 NDAA to the full Senate for consideration. The House…
Read More...Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. During a recent campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona, Donald Trump mused about capital punishment. “We’ve never had [such] massive amounts of drugs pouring into our country,” he said. “And by the way, you’ll never solve the problem without the death penalty.” Trump also said he had made a deal with Xi Jinping prior to the end of his term that would have seen China executing anyone found to be manufacturing fentanyl for sale in America, though the only…
Read More...Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., demanded Thursday that the Global Disinformation Index provide specifics on its efforts to blacklist conservative news sites, in a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. GDI, a nonprofit based in the United Kingdom, compiles lists of sites—such as conservative media outlets—that it deems as spreading “disinformation” and shares these lists with advertising firms to demonetize the outlets, the Washington Examiner first reported. Despite describing itself as “nonpolitical,” the Global Disinformation Index consistently assigns higher ratings of disinformation risk to conservative media while rating liberal…
Read More...Joel Payne: “Between RFK Jr. failing to make the debate stage and having his worst fundraising month of the year, it’s clear that Americans are catching on to his MAGA policies on abortion, climate, and immigration.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, MoveOn Political Action released the following statement in response to news that third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to qualify for the first debate of the 2024 presidential election: “Between RFK Jr. failing to make the debate stage and having his worst fundraising month of the year, it’s…
Read More...Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars headlined a glitzy fundraiser for President Joe Biden, helping raise what his reelection campaign said was $ 28 million and hoping to energize would-be supporters for a November election that they argued was among the most important in the nation’s history. The Washington Times stories: White House
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