The sneaky law making nursing homes wildly expensive
As of 2023, 53 million people (more than 1 in 5) were caring for a parent, a spouse, or another relative, and of those, 37.1 million were providing unpaid eldercare. As baby boomers approach retirement (and a stunning number of them have made zero financial preparations to do so), it’s likely that a significant number […]
Newsom’s latest budget proposal falls $7 billion short, LAO says
(The Center Square) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget proposal still falls $7 billion short of a balanced budget for fiscal year 2024-2025, according to the state-funded, non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. This new budget, called the May Revision, is a marked improvement from earlier assessments from the LAO that said the 2024-2025 deficit could be […]
Son of a gun: The Hunter Biden cases that never were
Hunter Biden will stand trial next week on gun-related charges just as the GOP’s effort to untangle his web of foreign moneymaking fizzles out. While the political will to impeach President Joe Biden over any involvement in his family’s influence-peddling has all but disappeared, the belief that the Justice Department gave Hunter Biden favorable treatment […]
Five ways Larry Hogan appeals to Maryland Democrats
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has had a successful political career as a Republican in heavily blue Maryland. He’s now tasked with flipping a senate seat in the state to the GOP after serving eight years as governor. Hogan has escalated his messaging toward the state’s Democrats since winning the May 14 Maryland Republican primary. […]
Anti-abortion activist Mark Houck sues DOJ over ‘retaliatory’ arrest
Mark Houck‘s life was changed forever in the fall of 2022 after he was arrested at gunpoint in front of his family following an investigation into his anti-abortion activism outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia. After the Pennsylvania-based Catholic father’s acquittal by a jury in January 2023, Houck is demanding accountability for the Department of […]
NATO allies plan ‘drone wall’ as Russia tests Baltic borders
A group of NATO allies has agreed to establish a “drone wall” to monitor the trans-Atlantic alliance’s borders with Russia amid a series of measures from Moscow that point to increasing “hybrid” pressure in the Baltic States region. “This is a completely new thing — a drone wall stretching from Norway to Poland,” Lithuanian Interior […]
The Fauci cover-up is falling apart
Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci has already been caught lying about COVID-19 many times. Now newly released emails from his longtime colleague Dr. David Morens, a senior adviser to the director at the National Institutes of Health, show a broad-based conspiracy, including involvement from disgraced Department of Health […]
Trump ‘seriously considering’ pardoning Julian Assange
Former President Donald Trump suggested he would pardon Julian Assange, the activist behind Wikileaks. When asked on the podcast TimcastIRL before Trump’s speech at the Libertarian convention Saturday if he would pardon Assange if he won a second term in the Oval Office, Trump said the decision was in “very serious consideration.” “We’re going to […]
California lawmakers move closer to banning multiuse plastic bags
Both chambers of the California legislature voted in favor of legislation last week that would ban grocery stores and other retailers from giving multiuse plastic bags to customers. Under the legislation, stores would still be able to offer paper bags or plastic bags that are made of at least 50% post-consumer recycled materials and for […]
Tornado watch issued for DC, Maryland, and Virginia until 11 p.m.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for some mid-Atlantic states this Memorial Day, including Washington, D.C., Maryland, and parts of Virginia and North Carolina. Residents in the impacted areas could see wind gusts of up to 70 mph as well as hail the size of pingpong balls, according to CNN. The tornado watch […]