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…
Seven passengers were hospitalized Friday after a Newark-bound flight from Israel experienced turbulence and high winds. United Flight 85, headed to Newark, N.J. from Tel Aviv, was diverted to Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, N.Y., Friday due to the dangerous winds, officials said, according to The Associated Press. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said…
An appeals court in Texas upheld a lower court’s injunction blocking the state from investigating parents who allow their kids to receive gender-affirming care. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ordered state agencies in 2022 to open probes into the parents of transgender minors after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) issued an opinion claiming certain…
A New Mexico judge denied a request by the “Rust” movie set armorer for a new trial Friday, after she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 fatal shooting of the Western film’s cinematographer. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer also ordered armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed to remain in custody through her appeals process, according to the…
President Biden said on Friday that he will go to Baltimore next week after a section of the bridge collapsed, resulting in six deaths and a temporary closure of the city’s port. Biden mentioned that he will be visiting alongside Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D). He stated this shortly after the collapse early on Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton is criticizing former President Trump’s attacks on the judges involved in his criminal cases, most recently his hush money trial, warning that undermining an independent judiciary risks sliding the country toward tyranny. Walton joined CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to discuss Trump’s aggressive remarks about the families of his perceived foes in…
Construction cranes were deployed to Baltimore on Friday to remove the wreckage from Francis Scott Key Bridge, which partially collapsed Tuesday when a cargo ship collided with it. Multiple cranes are placed in the Patapsco River, working on clearing debris and paving the way for the reconstruction and eventual reopening of the Port of Baltimore,…
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