Nicholas Ballasy
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Virginia county board members advance plan to hike their pay 45% amid cop shortage, crime surge
With inflation still high, Fairfax County residents are facing higher property tax and annual car tax bills. → Read More
$1.7T omnibus bill funds border security in foreign nations, but prohibits it in US
Sen. Rick Scott wonders how any Republican can justify voting for the massive spending bill that prohibits CBP from using its $1.5 billion for border security funding. → Read More
Turncoat? Rove Super PAC boosts Democrat Shapiro in Pennsylvania over GOP opponent
Rove has referred to both GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano and Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman as "extremists outside of the mainstream." → Read More
Pelosi on stock ban vote delay: 'I wish we would've had the Republicans to vote for it'
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who opposed bringing the bill to the floor before the House recess, says he wanted to see harsher penalties for insider trading in the legislation. → Read More
House GOP leader releases 'Commitment to America' calling for 200K more cops, China select committee
McCarthy is formally presenting the House GOP's "Commitment to America" to members on Thursday morning → Read More
As House progressives block Manchin deal with Dems on oil and gas permitting, he blames GOP
West Virginia Democrat is lashing out at GOP leaders for "revenge politics." → Read More
About 4,000 earmarks worth up to $10 billion slipped into $1.5T spending bill: GOP senator
More than 140 earmarks are linked to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, according to Indiana Sen. Mike Braun. → Read More
Elon Musk calls for Congress to throw out Biden's entire Build Back Better bill: 'Don't pass it'
Musk argued that the federal government should "get out of the way and not impede progress," emphasizing that the government ought be a "referee" rather than a "player on the field." → Read More
Schumer on electric cars: 'All vehicles on the road should be clean' by 2040
"There is no way the United States can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions without looking at how Americans drive," Schumer says. → Read More
Restaurants struggle to rehire workers due to unprecedented pandemic jobless payments
The $300 federal weekly jobless payment is currently added to state benefits as part of President Biden's American Rescue Plan Act that he signed in March. → Read More
Susan Rice warns COVID-19 'is not the big one,' future pandemic could be worse
Rice also says she expects Biden to rejoin the World Health Organization and make the U.S. “part of the global effort to stamp out the virus" through COVAX, the global vaccine partnership → Read More
Obama blames Fox News, Rush Limbaugh for destroying 'connection' he had with conservatives
'It’s yet one more example of how the connections that I may see, because I experienced them in my own life, may get harder to make if we’re only understanding people through our phones and our screens,' Obama says → Read More
Two tiered system? Many Pa. counties didn't allow voters to cure rejected mail-in ballots
A Just the News survey of county election clerks found many didn't implement secretary of state's guidance to cure ballots, opening potential door to legal challenges. → Read More
Cory Booker: 'Stunning' to compare Trump, Biden on criminal justice reform
In July 2019, the New Jersey Democratic senator criticized Biden's record on criminal justice reform, writing that the "proud architect of a failed system is not the right person to fix it." → Read More
Joe Biden's lengthy history of fabrication, plagiarism and racial controversy
In 1987, Biden said publicly that he marched during the civil rights movement but later admitted he was "not an activist" and he was "not out marching.” → Read More
Half a million incorrect absentee ballot applications sent across Virginia, including to dead people
“Approximately half a million applications sent to eligible voters in Virginia included incorrect information, and we are working diligently to address the issues,” says the Center for Voter Information → Read More
Sanders says 'ultra-rich' have been ‘looting’ for 40 years, amid looting of businesses and banks
Destruction to businesses, retailers and banks has been reported in major cities including NYC, D.C., Philadelphia, Boston, Oakland and Phoenix → Read More
#MeToo stalwart Gillibrand stands by Biden after supporting Kavanaugh, Franken accusers
Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for Joe Biden, has accused the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexual assault when he was a U.S. Senator. → Read More
Three news outlets have received more than $23 million in forgivable stimulus loans
Newspapers were struggling to stay profitable before the coronavirus → Read More
Federal agencies paid $175 billion in error during fiscal 2019: government report
Federal government payments made in error due to fraud or other factors continue to rise → Read More