New Jersey State

New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell is back in the hospital and it’s sparking questions as to whether he’ll run for reelection in November. The 87-year-old Pascrell was discharged from the hospital earlier this month after a nearly month-long stay for respiratory issues. Over the weekend, Pascrell was readmitted to a hospital in the Garden State.

Pascrell is back in the hospital. What that means for the House

Maryland State

UPI News

Rep. Steny Hoyer suffered a "mild ischemic stroke" over the weekend and sought medical treatment. The 85-year-old Democratic congressman from Maryland is responding well to treatment, his office announced Tuesday.

Rep. Steny Hoyer suffers 'mild' stroke, responding well to treatment

The Hill

House Republicans’ ambitious hopes of passing their annual government funding bills by next week are quickly crumbling as a tight schedule and intraparty rifts threaten efforts to approve their spending blueprints for 2025. Republicans had previously aimed to have all 12 annual funding bills pass by the August recess....

Republican funding plans crumbling as House eyes early exit

Jackson, WY

There are 83 days until the 2024 election. And we’re going to zoom in a bit this morning on two key players in those elections — Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Both men are on the road this summer, helping their colleagues raise the...

The Archive

Tennessee State

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) filed articles of impeachment against Vice President Harris on Tuesday, as Republicans ramp up attacks while she launches a presidential campaign. The filing expands on previously introduced articles that target Harris’s record on immigration, a GOP rallying cry against the vice president. He added a second article in the new filing,…

Tennessee Republican files articles of impeachment against Harris

The Associated Press

Democrats at the highest levels are making a critical push for President Joe Biden to reevaluate his election bid, with former President Barack Obama expressing private concerns to allies and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi privately telling Biden the party could lose the ability to seize control of the House if he doesn’t step aside. Follow AP’s live coverage of the investigation into the assassination attempt on Trump, the RNC and more Democrats expressing concerns about President Biden’s candidacy. WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats at the highest levels are making a critical push for President Joe Biden to rethink his election bid, with former President Barack Obama expressing concerns to allies and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi privately telling Biden the party could lose the ability to seize control of the House if he doesn’t step away from the 2024 race. Biden’s orbit, already small before his debate fumbling, has grown even smaller in recent days. Isolated as he battles a COVID infection at home in Delaware, the president is relying on a few longtime aides as he weighs whether to bow to the mounting pressure to drop out.

Biden is isolated at home as Obama, Pelosi and other Democrats push for him to reconsider 2024 race

New Mexico State

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A top Democrat in the U.S. House says it will take a shift of power in Congress to ensure that legislation is finally passed to extend and expand a compensation program for people exposed to radiation following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out by the federal government.

House Democrats Dig in Amid Ongoing Fight in Congress Over Compensation for US Radiation Victims

The Independent

After two weeks of quibbling over “childless cat ladies”, one Republican Senate candidate is ready to say it: the top of his party’s ticket has a problem with women.Donald Trump and JD Vance head into August beset by a number of problems: the sudden withdrawal of Trump’s main opponent, Joe Biden, and the elevation of Kamala Harris as the new Democratic nominee, for starters. But through the end of July, in the days following the GOP convention in Milwaukee, much of the coverage surrounding the Republican ticket has concerned past comments made by Vance, the vice presidential nominee.In those comments,...

‘No question’ JD Vance has a problem with women, Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan says

Denver, CO

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David Heitz

No, pallet shelters for people experiencing homelessness don’t fold into caskets. It’s a question a reader posed one of the first times I wrote about pallet shelters. I find the pallet shelters to be more palatable than ice fishing tents. The Colorado Village Collaborative operates both micro-communities and the so-called Safe Outdoor Spaces with the tents. We all learned the tents are not safe when a fire roared through a CVC Safe Outdoor Space, destroying the compound quickly. Officials never disclosed a cause of the fire.

Opinion: No, pallet shelters for homeless in Denver, Aurora don’t fold into caskets

Colorado State

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Wisconsin State

Minneapolis, MN

USA TODAY

Ilhan Omar's victory caps off a series of primaries facing the Squad, while Eric Hovde and Tammy Baldwin will face off in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country.

Ilhan Omar wins in Minnesota, Wisconsin Senate fight is set: 3 takeaways from Tuesday's primaries

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

A Black woman may be leading the presidential ticket of a major political party for the first time, but for Jacksonville’s Black conservatives, political values trump a candidate’s personal identity.

Republicans look to shore up support among Black conservatives in Jacksonville

Texas State

Indiana State

WASHINGTON (CN) — In a rare unanimous move, the Senate on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill aimed at expanding the federal judiciary and easing the caseloads currently faced by federal courts and judges. That bill, known as the Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved or JUDGES Act, was sponsored...

Senate unanimously approves bill adding dozens of new federal judgeships

Virginia State

NBC News

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good, R-Va., has lost his primary recount, a Virginia court certified on Thursday, cementing his narrow defeat to GOP state Sen. John McGuire. The recount results confirmed McGuire beat Good, after McGuire initially led Good by just 374 votes in the June primary in Virginia’s...

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good loses Virginia primary recount

HuffPost

There's talk that the VP nominee could be part of a GOP realignment on unions. But so far, that “pro-labor” portrayal is at odds with much of his record.

Some Republicans Are Changing Their Tune On 1 Issue — But People Aren't Buying It

CBS News

Washington — The conservative House Freedom Caucus announced its official position on the upcoming government funding fight on Monday, urging House Republican leadership to push for a stopgap measure to keep the government funded through the new year rather than approving an overall new funding package ahead of the election.With a Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government, lawmakers face a funding showdown when they return from their August recess next month. And the deadline is made more complicated by election-year politics. In a statement Monday, the House Freedom Caucus, a small but vocal group of conservatives that has complicated recent...

House Freedom Caucus backs short-term funding bill to avoid shutdown

Florida State

Uncovering Florida

Most people are guilty of doing it at least once in their lives, many people do it by accident, some do it because they find it fun, and others do it for reasons like honoring loved ones. Regardless of the situation, just about everyone has released a balloon. The difference is that intentionally releasing balloons is now illegal by House Bill 321’s standards.

Law Signed By DeSantis Makes It Illegal To Release Balloons In Florida

South Carolina State

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Colleton County, SC

Explore Beaufort SC

Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

NewsNation

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) experienced a “mild” stroke Sunday night and, after treatment, is not experiencing lingering symptoms, the congressman’s office announced Tuesday. A spokesperson for Hoyer — the 85-year-old former House majority leader — said the Maryland Democrat expects to resume his normal schedule next week. “On Sunday night, August 11, Rep. Steny Hoyer experienced […]

Hoyer experienced ‘mild’ stroke, has ‘no lingering symptoms,’ office says

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said some Republicans have told her Democrats “have to beat” former President Trump in the election this November for politics to return to normal. Pelosi joined MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday to discuss the new Democratic ticket, the attacks she’s received from the...

Pelosi says some Republicans have told her Dems ‘have to beat’ Trump in November

NewsBreak

House Democrats have had a rough few months on the health front

Despite suffering a minor stroke on Sunday, former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer plans to attend the Democratic convention next week in Chicago. Hoyer, 85, had...

House Democrats have had a rough few months on the health front

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