“Our alliance with the Philippines is the oldest in the Indo Pacific and has never been stronger,” says one senior administration official. President Joe Biden is set to enter a second day of modernizing alliances in the Indo-Pacific with a bilateral summit meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., followed by the first-ever trilateral meeting
United States District Court Judge K. Michael Moore ruled city commissioners ‘unconstitutionally’ drew district lines in both 2022 and 2023 based on race. A federal judge has struck down Miami’s current city commission maps, ruling that the city “unconstitutionally” drew district lines based on race. Originally filed in 2022, when the city redistricted the five
The new cherry trees will replace the existing ones around the Tidal Basin in Washington. Japan is giving the United States 250 cherry trees, meant to reflect the strong geopolitical alliance and friendship between the two nations, President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on Wednesday. The new trees will replace the
The greenhouse gas emissions rule would force transportation departments to measure their transportation-related emissions and set reduction targets. The U.S. Senate has passed a disapproval resolution overturning a regulation from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) requiring states to measure and set goals for reducing carbon emissions from vehicles using the national highway system. The FHWA
GOP prosecutors say U.S. Constitution is clear in its direction to leave state elections up to the elected representatives of those states. A group of Republican state attorneys general are pushing back against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s comments made in March at a church in Selma, Alabama, where he discussed using the Department of
Illegal immigrants affect electoral college votes and congressional district reapportionment, the senator charged. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) suggested on April 10 that the Biden administration is facilitating illegal immigration to help Democrats politically. The senator’s remarks came amid his questioning of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on April 10.
The transcript is FBI interview with Trump’s valet Walt Nauta who is charged for allegedly mishandling classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago estate. A federal judge has allowed a Trump co-defendant in the classified documents case to file a redacted FBI interview transcript with his motion to dismiss, in a blow for special counsel Jack Smith.