Tag: Politics

  • Derailment Costs Norfolk Southern Millions Governor

    Derailment Costs Norfolk Southern Millions Governor

    Governor Josh Shapiro announced on Monday that Norfolk Southern had contributed several million dollars to pay the cost of reaction and recovery in Pennsylvania following the disaster of a train carrying dangerous chemicals in Ohio last month. According to Shapiro’s office, he met with Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw on Thursday and obtained a preliminary…

  • Bolsonaro Seems Very Trump-Like in Latest Interview

    Bolsonaro Seems Very Trump-Like in Latest Interview

    Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, plans to leave his adopted home in Florida and return to the country that deposed him. Bolsonaro told NBC News at CPAC, in what is believed to be his first U.S. television appearance since his ouster in December, that he had nothing to do with the ensuing January 8 riots…

  • Democratic Senator Joe Manchin Refuses to Endorse Biden

    Democratic Senator Joe Manchin Refuses to Endorse Biden

    Before backing President Joe Biden for reelection, Sen. Joe Manchin would like to “see who all the players are.” A week after refusing to identify as a Democrat, the West Virginia Democrat continued to toe the party line on Sunday. On CBS’s Face the Nation, he stated, “My first objective right now is to serve…

  • House Ethics Committee Investigates GOP’s George Santos

    House Ethics Committee Investigates GOP’s George Santos

    The House Ethics Committee said on Thursday that it would start an investigation into Republican Rep. George Santos, a New York congressman who has been in trouble because he has lied and exaggerated about his resume and personal life. The bipartisan committee leaders stated that the panel had decided unanimously to establish a subcommittee to…

  • Georgia Senate Rejects Attempt to Allow Atlanta’s Whitest Area to Secede

    Georgia Senate Rejects Attempt to Allow Atlanta’s Whitest Area to Secede

    Two legislation that would have authorized the whitest and wealthiest part of Atlanta to secede and form its own city were defeated by the Georgia Senate on Thursday, a day after the administration of Governor Brian Kemp questioned the legitimacy of the proposal in a note to lawmakers. The legislation to establish Buckhead City failed…

  • Liz Cheney Obtains a New Position Focusing on ‘Strengthening Our Democracy’

    Liz Cheney Obtains a New Position Focusing on ‘Strengthening Our Democracy’

    Liz Cheney has secured a new position. According to a tweet from the university’s Center for Politics on Wednesday, Cheney entered the University of Virginia as a professor of practice. Cheney recently lost her congressional seat after being defeated in a primary. “With democracy under attack in this country and around the globe, Liz Cheney…

  • Student Loan Relief Advocates Assemble at SCOTUS, Push Court to Side With Biden

    Student Loan Relief Advocates Assemble at SCOTUS, Push Court to Side With Biden

    Tuesday morning, protesters in favor of student loan debt relief gathered in front of the Supreme Court, demanding that the top judges support President Biden in two cases challenging his flagship student loan debt reduction scheme. Biden’s relief program aims to cancel $10,000 of student debt for low- to middle-income borrowers and $20,000 for Pell…

  • Trump Accused ‘Crooked Democrat Prosecutors’ on Trying to ‘Steal’ 2024 Election

    Even though the 2024 presidential election is still over 600 days away, Donald Trump is already sowing the seeds of doubt about the legitimacy of the national vote. “Crooked Democrat Prosecutors, many of whom are Reverse Racists, are attempting to steal a second Presidential Election,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform late Sunday. “They…

  • Florida’s Democratic Party Appoints Nikki Fried to Lead Reform

    Nikki Fried, the former agriculture commissioner of Florida, was elected Saturday to lead the state’s shattered Democratic Party. Fried, who lost the gubernatorial primary to former Gov. Charlie Crist, pledged to rebuild the party “from the ground up” in an effort to defeat Annette Tadeo, a former state senator who also lost her seat last…

  • A Businessman-Turned-Culture-Warrior Announces His 2024 Challenge to Donald Trump

    In a video to start his 2024 presidential campaign, millionaire businessman, novelist, and Fox News mainstay Vivek Ramaswamy boldly asserts, “We are in the midst of a national identity crisis,” adding that modern politics amounts to “psychological enslavement.” Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur, echoed these sentiments to Tucker Carlson when announcing his candidacy on Fox News…