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…
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) said Monday that she would not be testifying before a Republican-led Georgia state Senate panel investigating her. During an event where she earned the endorsement of many local Black religious leaders, Willis said the committee investigating her may not have the authority to subpoena her. “First of all,…
Last winter’s unusual onslaught of rain and snow led to California’s first increase in groundwater levels in four years, state officials reported on Monday. The 2023 Water Year — which spanned from Oct. 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2023 — brought a welcome 4.1 million acre-feet of managed groundwater recharge and a total rise in…
Former President Trump appeared to delete a social media post Tuesday morning complaining that his legal team did not have adequate time to prepare for the next witness in the hush money criminal trial, within an hour of initially posting it. In his statement posted at 7:30 a.m. on his Truth Social platform, Trump said…
There were demonstrations by pro-Palestinian supporters near the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night as celebrities were attending the annual Met Gala event. The New York Police Department stated that several people were taken into custody during the protests, but did not give a specific number. Footage on social media showed groups of people marching near the Met Gala, chanting “free Palestine”…
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) defended herself Monday after she received mass criticism for sharing a story of shooting and killing her young hunting dog and an improbable anecdote that she met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in her new book. Noem stood by her decision to kill the 14-month-old dog, Cricket, in…
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) emphasized her affection for dogs on Monday, as she tried to defend herself against the onslaught of criticism and mockery following the revelation in a new book that she shot an ill-behaved 14-month-old puppy. In a Monday interview on “CBS Mornings,” Noem continued with the…
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