Month: June 2023

Lawmakers in state capitals this year have been flexing their superpowers. In North Carolina, a new supermajority of Republicans enacted abortion restrictions. In Vermont, a new supermajority of Democrats pushed through a climate-sensitive home heating law. And in Montana, a Republican supermajority kicked a transgender lawmaker off the House floor. In each case, the opinions of his political opponents were irrelevant. By at least one measure, political power is at its highest point in decades. That’s because Republicans or Democrats have such large majorities in 28 states that they could override gubernatorial vetoes without any help from the minority party….

Senate Democrats from Maryland and Virginia will be squarely in the crosshairs in the coming months as they battle each other and simultaneously over changes to Reagan National Airport and the location of the FBI’s next headquarters. Lawmakers are fighting each other to keep the J. Edgar Hoover Building replacement in its home state, but all are fighting to get a replacement included in the next government spending package amid GOP dissatisfaction with the FBI . . A spending deal is needed to avoid a government shutdown before Sept. 30. Separately, the quartet — Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Tim Kaine…

LACONIA, NH – Two Massachusetts residents were among several drivers charged with driving under the influence in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region during patrols aimed at cracking down on drunken and drugged driving, police said state On Friday night, troopers assigned to the New Hampshire State Police Drug Recognition Expert Unit conducted “a high visibility DUI saturation patrol initiative in the Lakes Region area State police said in a statement Sunday. Troopers made a total of 58 traffic stops and issued 13 citations and 48 warnings to motorists for various violations. Seven drivers, from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Florida, were arrested…

One person has been detained and arrested after a standoff in an Auburn neighborhood on Saturday. According to officials, the initial call was for a man barricaded inside a home in the 800 block of Marguerite Mine Road. According to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office, after officers arrived on scene, the man inside the home began shooting from inside the residence. A multi-agency response quickly surrounded the affected area and secured the neighborhood. Police asked people within a half-mile radius to shelter in place. Access was temporarily blocked with a SWAT team on scene. The confrontation lasted almost 14 hours,…

THEFT IN RECOVERY. ACCORDING TO THIS CRIMINAL COMPLAINT, KENNY PICKETT’S SUV WAS PARKED IN THE SUN HERE AT BOWSER CHEVROLET IN MONROEVILLE, AND HE WAS ALSO HERE ON WEDNESDAY FOR AN EVENT WHEN POLICE SAY SOMEONE GOT INTO THE DRIVER’S SEAT AND WAS THE SUV BUT WITH PICKETT’S BELONGINGS IN THE CAPITAL LETTERS, WITH PICKETT’S CAR AND HE TOLD US THE STEELER’S PLAYBOOK WAS IN THE BACK SEAT. AND I WENT, OH BOY. AND THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS CONFIRMED TO PITTSBURGH ACTION NEWS FOUR THAT THE QB’S PLAYBOOK WAS IN ITS GENESIS WHEN IT WAS STOLEN. BUT HE SAYS KENNY PICKETT’S…

Breaking news, Kylian Mbappe’s latest decision with Real Madrid Surprise the world of football and especially in Real Madrid for the latent possibility that Kylian Mbappé renew the contract with Paris Saint Germain. The Frenchman continues with his endless rounds and can once again turn his back on Real Madrid. Here are all the details of this Madrid catastrophe. Marca newspaper revealed that Kylian Mbappé is still contemplating the possibility of renewing with Paris Saint Germain. If you do, your relationship with Florentino Perez he might be totally broke and we might never see him in the meringue shirt. While…

Washington CNN — Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said Sunday that it was a “futile idea” to force GOP candidates in 2024 to sign a pledge to support the party’s final nominee to participate in the primary debates. “It’s only in the era of Donald Trump that you need someone to sign something in a pledge. So I think it’s a bad idea,” the former New Jersey governor told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” on the requirement of the Republican National Committee. Christie, who launched his presidential bid earlier this month, said he has expressed his views…

The UK Labor party has pledged to spend £28 billion a year on green investment during its first term in power; conservatives have attacked the plan as fiscally reckless. The debate will undoubtedly feature prominently in the upcoming general election campaign. But this is not a parochial struggle. It is one of the first examples of a political battle that is increasingly being fought around the world: the battle over whether today’s economic demands on governments require them to “go big” or move gradually. Labour’s approach is consciously modeled on US President Joe Biden’s economic policy, as Labor chancellor Rachel…