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…
Conservative lawyer George Conway said he expects former President Trump to violate the gag order imposed by the New York judge overseeing Trump’s hush money trial. “At some point, I think, though, he can’t help himself,” Conway said of the former president Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “He’s going to end up violating the gag…
The USACE is deploying over 1,100 personnel to Baltimore in response to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. The corps’ Baltimore District has activated its Emergency Operations Center, allowing more than 1,100…
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sharply criticized a North Carolina radio show host on Tuesday when he asked whether President Biden has dementia. “When I told a number of people that I was talking to you today. It was interesting, though, they all said, Would you please just ask her: Does the President have…
The Montana Supreme Court has decided that several voting reform laws passed by the state Legislature in 2021 go against the basic right to vote. The decision, given on Wednesday, confirms a previous ruling from 2022 that stated four voting-related bills from the 2021 Legislature session are not allowed by the constitution and cannot be put into action. The case combined a challenge…
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, who is a member of the Republican party, rejected a ban on assault weapons that was approved by the state Legislature last month. He did this during a session where 30 bills were vetoed, including several other gun control bills, on Tuesday. He stated, "I promised to protect the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of Virginia, and that definitely means safeguarding the…
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that there’s currently no timeline for when the Port of Baltimore can reopen following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge a day prior. “Too soon to venture an estimate,” he told reporters during the White House daily press briefing. “The vast majority of the port is inside…
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