Friendly faces noted amidst political divide as the city hosted the GOP convention. MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The vast spaces of the Baird Center were emptying out. The delegates, vendors, reporters, and other attendees of the 2024 Republican National Convention had vanished. The spectacle, Republicans’ first since 2016, was over, the throng long gone. On the afternoon of
Ms. Lee, who was first elected to her Houston seat in 1994, revealed that she had pancreatic cancer in June. Democratic Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who represented her constituents for more than 30 years, has died after a battle with cancer, her family announced on Friday. She was 74. Ms. Lee, who was first
The retired fire chief was killed while shielding his family from gunfire during the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. CABOT, Pa.—Dotted with farms and cornfields in the western Pennsylvania hills, Bear Creek Road is usually a quiet stretch that connects Freeport to Cabot in Butler County. On July 19, the rural pathway was
When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in 2022, the U.S. government gained the ability to negotiate prices on expensive prescription drugs for the first time ever. Though the bill’s effects will not be felt until 2026, it is intended to lower costs for covered users by billions of dollars annually,
A handful of celebrities attended the Republican National Convention this week. A handful of entertainers, celebrities, and other high-profile figures were among the tens of thousands who descended on Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this week to attend the Republican National Convention (RNC), where GOP delegates formally nominated former President Donald Trump as the official presidential candidate for
Marquita Berry remembers hearing music playing softly as she walked into her son’s bedroom last October. She found him sitting cross-legged at the end of the bed, leaning forward, with one earbud resting on his shoulder. “I reached out to touch him, and I could tell that he was no longer….” Ms. Berry said, her
Practice ‘loving your neighbor,’ Will Rollins says after claiming his opponent will ‘do anything to tear down our democracy’ Will Rollins (@WillRollinsCA/X) California Democrat Will Rollins recently wrote that “loving your neighbor” shouldn’t depend on politics, but the congressional candidate has called Republicans and his opponent, Rep. Ken Calvert (R., Calif.), “extremists” who want to