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…
Officials report that a man was arrested on Monday for trying to enter the FBI office in Atlanta by forcefully driving his vehicle into the gates of the building. The man, who was not linked to the FBI and has not been named, supposedly followed an employee to the facility, tried to get past security gates, and then rammed into them shortly after midday on Monday.…
Abortion rights will be up for voting in Florida this year after the state Supreme Court on Monday said a suggested ballot measure can move forward. Facing an April 1 deadline, the court supported Floridians Protecting Freedom, a coalition of abortion rights groups sponsoring the initiative. By allowing the measure, the court…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign has added North Carolina to the expanding list of battleground states in which it has qualified for the ballot in November. The independent candidate’s campaign says it now has enough signatures to list Kennedy as a White House contender through the “We The People” party, gathering 23,000 pledges of support…
Hundreds of people were evacuated after a landslide caused portions of California’s Highway 1 to collapse, though parts of the road remained closed on Monday. Heavy rain on Saturday near Rock Creek Bridge — about 17 miles south of Monterey, Calif. — caused chunks of the road’s asphalt to fall into the ocean beside the two-lane…
The U.S. Coast Guard is getting ready to create a temporary alternative path for important commercial ships near the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, according to officials on Sunday. “This will be an important initial step toward reopening the port of Baltimore,” said Coast Guard Capt. David O’Connell, the federal on-scene coordinator for the…
Starting on Monday, most California fast food workers will receive at least $20 per hour, making it one of the highest minimum wages in the nation. A statute that raises the minimum wage, signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) last September, followed a push from the state’s fast food workers and labor unions, who organized several strikes demanding better working conditions and wages.
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