Politics

Courtesy of Monica Gary for State Senate (NEW YORK) — Virginia state Senate candidate Monica Gary is open about her past. National outlets have already picked up her story because of her background as a former dancer at strip clubs. But Gary says her backstory also includes growing up in poverty in Stafford County, having a […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When President Joe Biden unveiled his $6.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2024 on Thursday, notably absent was a plan to shore up the finances of Social Security. Biden’s placed an outsized emphasis on Social Security and Medicare since clashing with Republicans over the programs in his State of the […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans appear no closer to reaching a deal on the 2024 budget to avoid a debt default, with the two sides taking swipes at each other Friday morning. When touting Friday’s jobs report, Biden suggested Republicans weren’t capable of drafting a budget anytime soon and blasted […]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell remained in the hospital Thursday and was being treated for a concussion following a fall at a Washington, D.C., hotel Wednesday night. “Leader McConnell tripped at a dinner event Wednesday evening and has been admitted to the hospital and is being […]

Mint Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Amid a flurry of activity from House Republicans regarding Jan. 6, including Speaker Kevin McCarthy sharing security footage from the U.S. Capitol attack exclusively with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, a Republican-led committee has now launched a formal probe into the riot two years ago and the select committee that subsequently […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — There’s optimism in the Republican conference about the health of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after lawmakers were briefed on McConnell’s condition by his longtime aide and current chief of staff, Sharon Soderstrom, during a closed-door lunch on Thursday. Sodesterom told the members that her boss is alert, talking and […]

Brandon Bartoszek/Getty Images (LANSING, Mich.) — The Michigan legislature has voted to repeal a nearly century-old law criminalizing abortion. The Michigan Senate passed HB 4006 on Wednesday, which revokes the 1931 ban on abortion, less than a week after it passed the state House on March 2. The bill, which is just a single sentence, […]

J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw will face a Senate panel on Thursday as Washington lawmakers hold their first hearing on railroad safety about a month after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. “I am deeply sorry for the impact this derailment has had on the people of […]

Getty Images/Richard Sharrocks (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Senate on Wednesday voted by a lopsided margin to halt much debated changes to Washington, D.C.’s, century-old criminal code, a move supported by President Joe Biden but criticized by some local activists. The Senate voted 81-14, with Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock voting present, to shut down the proposed […]

Getty Images/ANDREY DENISYUK (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — First lady Jill Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday hosted the 17th annual International Women of Courage Awards — and for the first time, the ceremony took place at the White House, on “the biggest stage we could,” Biden said. The pair honored 11 global women […]