Politics

San Francisco’s three-year plan to build a single public toilet for $1.7 million could be going down the drain as California Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening to withhold the funds until the city figures out a more efficient away to use the money. The toilet’s sky-high cost was met with outcry last week, prompting California Assemblyman Matt Haney to cancel …

Prince William is planning to move forward with his father King Charles III’s plans to construct a sustainable “garden city” with 2,500 homes in southeastern England. The plan to build the sustainable eco village stretching across 320 acres of farmland in Kent, England, was previously heralded by King Charles III when he was the duke of Cornwall, a title that …

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has launched 73 lawsuits on election integrity issues in 20 states during the 2022 midterm election cycle, an increase from 2020 that has already secured GOP victories in battleground states this year. The scope of the legal challenges stretches from the rights of poll watchers to observe the counting of votes to the illegal counting …

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is under fire for claiming he doesn’t know anyone who supports defunding the police despite appearing at a campaign event for Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., just days before. “I don’t know anybody who thinks we should defund the police,” Ellison said during a debate on Sunday. But critics were quick to point out that Ellison …

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., was put on the defensive during her debate with Republican Tiffany Smiley, who took aim at the incumbent senator’s record on crime amid a surge in crime across the country. “We have a crime crisis in Washington state… crime is on the rise everywhere,” Smiley said.during Sunday’s debate, which comes just over a week before next …

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday again turned down the notion that he harbored presidential ambitions and vowed to serve out his full, four-year term if reelected governor.  The comments came during a debate with his Republican challenger, state Sen. Brian Dahle – the only time two candidates will meet face-to-face before voting ends on Nov. 8.  Democratic Gov. Gavin …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she doesn’t believe former President Donald Trump is “man enough” to appear in from of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. “I don’t think he’s man enough to show up,” Pelosi said during an appearance on MSNBC Sunday. “I don’t think his lawyers will want him to show up because …

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., expressed concern Sunday about young and working-class voters turning out for Democrats in the midterm elections. Having been alienated by high inflation and rising gas prices, the young and the working class might be discouraged from voting for the Democrats in November, the 81-year-old senator told CNN host Jake Tapper during an appearance on “State of …

What is the STOCK Act? Senators selling stocks before the coronavirus pandemic rocked the markets and have renewed attention on something called the STOCK Act. Here’s what you need to know. Several vulnerable members of Congress facing tough re-elections in the November midterm elections have come under greater scrutiny for possibly violating congressional stock trading transparency rules. Dozens of politicians …

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, made a thinly-veiled criticism of the Democratic Party’s leadership Saturday, praising the U.K.’s political system for allowing the ouster of Prime Minister Liz Truss while bristling at how difficult it is to remove leaders under the U.S. system. The far-left lawmaker made the comments during an Instagram Live session on Saturday night. One viewer, from the …