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…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed an executive order on Wednesday to address the issue of antisemitism at universities in the state, which has seen a significant increase in the problem nationally and globally. The order requires colleges to incorporate a definition of antisemitism into their free speech policies and establish clear consequences for antisemitic…
A federal appeals court issued a ruling late Tuesday that continues the halt on a Texas immigration law that allows local law enforcement to detain those believed to have entered the country unlawfully. The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ panel of three judges voted 2-1 to issue the pause on Senate Bill 4. The appeals…
Two former officials of a veterans’ nursing home in Massachusetts that had a deadly outbreak of COVID-19 settled their cases Tuesday to avoid prison, according to the state attorney general. Bennett Walsh, the former superintendent of Holyoke Soldiers’ Home and David Clinton, the former medical director at the home, were facing five charges of neglect…
A group of prominent Arizona Republicans sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday over new air pollution regulations that they claim will hurt the economy. The Republican leaders of the state’s House and Senate joined with the state Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the suit, alleging the new standards for fine air pollutants known…
Attorneys for Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake moved to forfeit a defamation case against her on Tuesday, choosing not to contest the allegations that she defamed a state election worker after the 2022 election. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (R) sued Lake last year in his personal capacity, claiming Lake defamed him after she refused…
The six individuals who were not found after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore are assumed to be deceased, the Coast Guard declared Tuesday evening, concluding an 18-hour search-and-rescue operation. Referring to extremely cold water and sea conditions, Rear Adm. Shannon Gilreath stated at a press conference on Tuesday evening that the missing people are probably deceased. “We…
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