Major win for president as former personal lawyer wins approval despite outcry over $1.8bn slush fund The US senate voted to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general in a major win for Donald Trump, who will now have his one-time personal attorney sitting atop the nation’s law enforcement apparatus. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana cast the deciding vote in Blanche’s favor after two other Republicans – Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska – voted against him. Every Democrat rejec
What looked like a last-minute lifeline for the 'Protect College Sports Act' turned into a 2 a.m. Senate dead end, even in spite of a late push from President Donald Trump. After a frantic Friday filled with amendments, objections and pressure from the President to keep lawmakers in Washington, supporters believed they had a path to a vote before the August recess. Senators and aides were called back to the Capitol late Friday night as momentum appeared to be building. But in the early morning h
Former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown once praised data center expansion, records show, even as he now runs on a platform opposing their development in a bid to return to the Senate. In 2015, Brown put out a press release celebrating the construction of a third data center in Central Ohio . "This new data center is great news for New Albany and central Ohio . Amazon’s growth in central Ohio signals that this region is not only a great place to do business, but a place where people want to live
Bill must still be approved by House but would keep government running at current funding levels The US Senate on Friday passed a government funding bill that will prevent a shutdown through the midterm elections, though it still must be approved by the House of Representatives. The continuing resolution (CR) passed by a 90-6 vote will keep the government running at its current funding levels until 11 December, more than a month past the midterms in which Democrats are hoping to regain control o
Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke's death was due to the effects of heroin and cocaine, the Los Angeles medical authority reveals.
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Pro-Israel college students who have watched socialism and anti-Israel activism gain ground on campus say the same political currents are now colliding with the Democratic Party — and the backlash is pushing some young Jewish voters to the right. "Even before the craziness of the post-October 7 campus climate, it was already an underlying sense of, 'America is bad and we're gonna learn about that,'" University of Michigan rising senior Addison Stone told Fox News Digital. Speaking at the Israel
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The primary win by Abdul el-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race demonstrated that Democrats and their broadcast media allies can’t really identify a radical left-wing fringe anywhere. They ought to easily find the fringe with radical Twitch streamer and podcaster Hasan Piker , who el-Sayed campaigned with and refuses to condemn. Now that el-Sayed faces Republican Mike Rogers in the general election, the networks are going to defend the Democrat against charges that he campaigned with Piker, who ha
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A cake sold by Whole Foods Market is so beloved by customers, it's served at birthdays and weddings, and some attest to eating it weekly. The market's Berry Chantilly Cake "features layers of delicate vanilla cake, fluffy Chantilly cream frosting and fresh berries," Whole Foods' website says. "It's so irresistible, in fact, that people have been known to stand in line for it through power outages and impending natural disasters (true story)." The cake has taken on various iterations over the yea
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New York mayor’s policy set to generate revenue and address housing crisis despite outcry in some quarters New York City’s introduction of a pied-à-terre tax has provided fodder for Zohran Mamdani’s critics, who accuse the democratic socialist mayor of attacking the rich – even as others welcome it as a much-needed effort to tax the wealthy in a city known for its yawning inequality and cost-of-living crisis. The tax, aimed at closing the city’s budget gap, covers people who own but do not live
