IL House GOP: State could RISE to $82.4B in property tax relief “Bad public policy is squandering our potential,” said State Rep. Blaine Wilhour (pictured, left) (R-Beecher City), adding Illinois should be a “powerhouse” but instead is bereft of opportunity “for ... 05/15/2024 - 10:59 am | View Link
Biden White House highlights a coming showdown with GOP over 2017 tax cuts that are due to expire WASHINGTON -- The winner of November's presidential election will face an epic challenge next year with the coming expiration of nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts — an issue that the Biden White House is ... 05/10/2024 - 4:50 am | View Link
Biden swings at Trump during White House Correspondents’ Dinner remarks as pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside President Joe Biden took jabs at his predecessor and poked fun at his own age at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday as a sizable group of pro-Palestinian protesters outside ... 04/28/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
White House moves to protect patient abortion records “Each and every American still has a right to their privacy, especially when it comes to their very private, very personal health information,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a Monday ... 04/22/2024 - 9:12 am | View Link
White House says U.S. Steel deal security review proceeding as normal White House National Economic Adviser Lael Brainard said at the Semafor World Economy Summit 2024 that any national-security review of the deal would continue as normal after U.S. President Reuters ... 04/18/2024 - 7:12 am | View Link
History Channel reminds us of the devastation caused by this volcanic eruption.
At 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens, a volcanic peak in southwestern Washington, suffers a massive eruption, killing 57 people and devastating some 210 square miles of wilderness.
After the city of Pompeii was buried under the might of Mt Vesuvius in 79 ce , an incredible city was discovered under the ash over a thousand years later.
For many centuries Pompeii slept beneath its pall of ash, which perfectly preserved the remains.
California banker and carpetbagger Eric "Pornstache" Hovde, who wants to be the US Senator from Wisconsin, has a knack for doublespeak. We first saw this when he was explaining why people in nursing homes shouldn't be allowed to vote, when he denied in believing The Big Lie and then repeating all the accusations anyway.
He then did an interview with Matt Smith of WISN-TV when this subject came up.
An animated Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) raised his voice and refused to say he would accept the outcome of the 2024 election on Sunday.
During an interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker asked the senator if he would accept a loss by former President Donald Trump in this year's presidential election.
"Will you accept the election results of 2024, no matter what happens, Senator?" Welker asked.
"No matter what happens?
He's already tried overthrow the results of an election once, and as many have warned, he'll try to do it again. Here's Trump saying the quiet part out loud again during his speech this weekend:
The highlight of the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting on Saturday was a speech by former president Donald Trump, which came late but was ripe with sound bites.
8212; Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday.
Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 class.
Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed space on a roughly 10-minute flight.