by Julia Mueller | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
How Florida members of Congress described the country ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night. WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will give his State of the Union speech Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST amid a Russian invasion of Ukraine and a...
by Julia Mueller | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., is leading a congressional charge for an equal rights amendment to enshrine gender equality in the U.S. Constitution as lawmakers in New York push for a broader measure on the same issue in the state Constitution. The...
by Julia Mueller | Feb 18, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Two days after the 2020 presidential election, an anonymous online message alleged the U.S. Postal Service in Wisconsin had backdated ballot postmarks to mess with election results — a claim that was quickly debunked by fact-checkers and the USPS...
by Julia Mueller | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Giving financial aid to stem the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan risks the “moral hazard” of the money helping the Taliban, the chairman of a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee said Wednesday. But experts countered that it would...
by Julia Mueller | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
An appellate court is expected to rule soon on the constitutionality of New York’s mask mandates WASHINGTON — Even as the COVID-19 omicron variant surges, many school districts around the country — as well as some states like Virginia — are relaxing mask...