State Watch
Two additional Native American tribes in South Dakota have banned Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) from their reservations after she said earlier this year that tribal leaders benefited from drug cartels. Noem is now banned from traveling to about one-fifth of South Dakota after the Yankton Sioux Tribe voted Friday to ban Noem and the Sisseton-Wahpeton…
Students at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) walked out of their commencement ceremony to protest an address by Gov. Glenn Younkin (R-Va.). About 100 of the 1,200 graduates at the graduation ceremony Saturday quietly filed out of the Greater Richmond Convention Center, some wearing kaffiyeh scarves and signs reading “Teach Black history” and “Book bans…
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s (R) radio show on WABC Radio has been canceled and he was suspended by the station over claims he made about the 2020 election, according to a report from The New York Times. “We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election,” WABC Radio owner…
San Francisco will be the next U.S. city to get a pair of pandas from China as part of the “panda diplomacy” program between Washington and Beijing. San Francisco Mayor London Breed stated on Friday that the San Francisco Zoo has been chosen to accommodate the giant pandas. “San Francisco is very excited to welcome…
The city of San Francisco has sued the city of Oakland, claiming that plans to rename the airport would infringe on its trademark and “cause confusion.” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed a federal lawsuit Thursday after the Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners approved a plan to rename the Metropolitan Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay…
Is it a violation of the Texas Constitution for a city to give money to its low-income residents? On Thursday, a Texas state court judge answered with a definitive “no” — the first ruling in what is shaping up to be a long legal fight over that question. “There is sufficient evidence to show that guaranteed…
Comedian Stephen Colbert’s show “The Late Show” will be in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention this summer, the late-night host revealed on Wednesday. “‘The Late Show’ will broadcast live from Chicago throughout the entire Democratic convention,” Colbert announced during his show on Wednesday. The shows will be aired live, as indicated in a post by the show’s account on…
More than three decades after Erin Brockovich recognized that hexavalent chromium was making residents of Hinkley, Calif., sick, state water regulators on Wednesday approved the nation’s first standard to limit the toxin’s presence in drinking water. The California State Water Control Board voted to adopt a maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 10 micrograms per liter…
Police from the New York Police Department (NYPD) were clad in riot gear on Thursday during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia University, where protesters set up a camp with many tents on campus. Images spreading on social media and various news sources showed many police officers in protective gear lined up around Columbia University on Thursday afternoon.
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