Nevada Republican Adam Laxalt’s lead over incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., has shrunk to fewer than 9,000 votes as officials are still counting mail-in ballots in the state’s largest counties. The latest updates from Clark and Washoe counties have put Laxalt just 8,988 votes over Cortez Masto, less than 1% of the total vote….
The federal government has taken action to provide abortion access to pregnant unaccompanied children crossing the border. The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) issued guidance Thursday stating that pregnant unaccompanied children (UC) at the border must be resettled in states without restrictions on abortion. RECORD 856 MIGRANTS DIE AT SOUTHERN BORDER IN FISCAL YEAR 2022:…
Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker forced Sen. Raphael Warnock into a runoff election, but former President Donald Trump’s expected 2024 run and an abbreviated runoff period to turn out voters could pose challenges for the candidate. Walker, who may have a chance to win a Senate majority for Republicans, closed a polling deficit in…
Businessman Rick Caruso’s lead over Democrat Rep. Karen Bass has now shrunk to just around 2,000 votes in the Los Angeles mayoral race, as county officials there are sifting through hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots. Caruso, a Republican-turned-Democrat, has so far captured 273,941 votes – about 50.25% – compared to Bass’s 271,246, according to…
Nevada Democrat U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is inching closer to overtaking the lead that Republican Adam Laxalt has. Following the latest updates from Clark County, Laxalt’s lead over Cortez Masto shrunk to 798 votes after the county tallied 27,229 votes, resulting in a pickup of 8,190 votes for the incumbent senator. Clark County is…
The commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is refusing to leave his position after being told to resign or be fired by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to a government source. Chris Magnus wrote in an email to senior Customs and Border Protection staff that he is determined to remain on the job….
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., said Republicans should have “done better” in Tuesday’s midterm elections, calling former President Trump a “drag on our ticket” that contributed to the party’s disappointing results. While interviewed from his home in Janesville, Wisconsin by local station WISN 12 News on Wednesday, Ryan said he was happy to see…
The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation has unveiled its list of top priorities for the new Congress and outlined a strategy to confront what it believes are the seven biggest challenges facing its mission of promoting public policies that focus on limited government, academic freedom, and other conservative principles. “We needed to identify what we…
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., on Wednesday signaled that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy may hit a few speed bumps on his quest to become the next House speaker, arguing the Republican conference needs to have “a serious discussion” about leadership after Tuesday’s disappointing election results. Republicans underperformed expectations in the midterm elections, and if…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could parlay Democrats’ strong electoral performance during the midterm elections into another term atop the conference, party strategists and political experts say, possibly torpedoing months of Democratic preparation for a post-Pelosi world. “Speaker Pelosi is in the driver’s seat when it comes to her future and the future of the Democratic…