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…
Crews on Saturday began the process of cutting and removing the first piece of wreckage from the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed into the Patapsco River last week after being struck by a cargo ship. The move marks the beginning of an extensive undertaking to remove the twisted steel from the bridge, which will…
More than $500,000 has been raised to support families of the victims of the Baltimore bridge collapse, which resulted in the deaths of six workers and injuries to two others. The financial support has been contributed by the city’s government, nonprofit groups, and the workers’ company, with the total amount now exceeding $500,000, as reported by the Washington Post. …
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of advanced surveillance cameras are being set up in the city of Oakland and nearby highways to combat crime, California Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed on Friday. Newsom, a Democrat, stated in a news release that the California Highway Patrol has signed a contract with Flock Safety to install 480 cameras that can recognize and…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) pushed back on rumors that she was asked to leave a slain NYPD officer’s wake, saying that nobody told her to in the wake of being confronted by a mourner on Friday. “We always inquire: ‘Do the families want us there?’ If the families say, ‘No, this is the…
Connecticut is the most recent state to permit voters to cast their votes ahead of time and in person. Saturday was the last day for early voting in Connecticut before the presidential primary on Tuesday. This is the first election in the state to provide early voting. “Connecticut is making history,” said Secretary of…
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) vowed to “move as fast as possible” to reopen the shipping route through the Baltimore port currently stalled with the recent collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. “We are going to move as fast as possible,” Moore said during a press conference on Saturday. “We are going to ensure…
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