Roy Cooper Says He’ll Block Grocery Mergers To ‘Make Stuff Cost Less,’ But He Cozied Up to Kroger as NC Governor: Senate Hopeful Didn’t Fight Its Plans for Massive Merger

Cooper lavished Kroger with taxpayer incentives. Then he stayed silent as it sought a $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons in 2024. Roy Cooper (@RoyCooperNC/X) Fresh off securing the Democratic nomination for North Carolina’s open Senate seat, former Gov. Roy Cooper kicked off his general election campaign with a  core campaign pledge: “Make Stuff Cost Less.”

Chip Roy introduces death penalty bill for convicted fentanyl dealers

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is introducing a bill on Tuesday that proposes allowing the death penalty for people convicted of distributing fentanyl that results in fatalities, Fox News reported.  The bill, the Deal Death, Face Death Act, proposes amending the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 to say that convicted fentanyl dealers “shall be sentenced, if…

Jeffries’s office slams Kiggans for agreeing with a conservative host’s ‘cotton-picking’ remarks

The office of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) went after Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) on Tuesday after the Virginia Republican concurred when a conservative radio host urged Jeffries to get his “cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.” Christie Stephenson, a spokesperson for Jeffries, who is the first Black lawmaker to lead either party in Congress,…