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 Gov. Greg Abbott (R) backed Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) on Wednesday, standing up for the congressman as he faces criticism from fellow Republicans after labeling two far-right members of the caucus “scumbags.” Gonzales criticized Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Bob Good (R-Va.) over the weekend, accusing the Freedom Caucus members of “walk around with white hoods,”…
A suspect in a recent break-in at the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) is believed to have been “targeting” her, according to Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, The Associated Press reported. “We believe that he was targeting the mayor,” Gascón said, according to the AP. “We are going on the…
A Minnesota state legislator denied a burglary charge she received after being arrested in Detroit Lakes and made a statement about it on Facebook.
A deeper channel to allow commercial ships into and out of the Port of Baltimore is set to open Thursday, a major step in reopening trade after the port was closed due to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month. The Army Corps of Engineers has opened three shallow, temporary channels under…
The city of Baltimore on Monday argued the owner and operator of the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge should not be able to avoid liability, claiming the vessel was “unseaworthy” when it left the Baltimore port last month, according to new court filings. In court filings Monday, attorneys for the…
A pro-Palestinian protest broke out at New York University on Monday, prompting arrests by New York police as protests take over college campuses across the country. The New York Police Department responded Monday night to NYU’s campus at the request of school administrators after protestors set up an encampment earlier in the day, a police…
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