House quickly kills Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust Speaker Johnson

by admin | May 9, 2024 | Politics

U.S. House of Representatives(WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday officially triggered a vote on her motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, but within minutes Democrats joined almost all Republicans to overwhelmingly reject her...

Getting illicit pills as easy as ordering food delivery via app, DEA administrator tells Congress

by admin | May 9, 2024 | Politics

Icy Macload/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Getting illicit pills is as easy as ordering food delivery through an app, the Drug Enforcement Administration warned Congress on Tuesday.”We say all the time that the most dangerous place in the world right now is...

Democrats work to keep protests from disrupting Chicago convention, with concerns over parallels to 1968

by admin | May 8, 2024 | Politics

Getty Images – STOCK(CHICAGO) — In 1968, violence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with hundreds of protesters arrested in a police crackdown, upended the party’s gathering and soured public opinion in the final months before the...

Biden withheld bomb shipment to Israel out of fear it could be used in Rafah: Source

by admin | May 8, 2024 | Politics

Caroline Purser/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration opted to pause a shipment of some 3,500 bombs to Israel last week because of concerns the weapons could be used in Rafah where more than one million civilians are sheltering “with nowhere...

Judge delays Donald Trump’s classified documents trial indefinitely

by admin | May 8, 2024 | Politics

Tetra Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case has now indefinitely postponed the trial date pending resolution of outstanding pretrial litigation, including disagreements about how...