Author: Jack Birle

The Georgia House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a school safety bill aimed at preventing school shootings through better information sharing and alertness to possible threats by students. The legislation was proposed less than a year after the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School, which left four people dead and nine others injured. Investigators said…

President Donald Trump‘s first address to Congress of his second term was a lengthy and raucous event featuring several fireworks from the crowd and the president. Between interruptions and one-liners from the crowd, the speech lacked much of the traditional decorum seen in presidential addresses to Congress, but the president also delivered jabs to the…

President Donald Trump gave Department of Government Efficiency founder Elon Musk a shoutout during his address to a joint session of Congress. Musk, who leads Trump’s efforts to cut waste and fraud in the federal government, was in the visitor gallery of the House chamber for the address. The DOGE head has been criticized by…

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has announced that his office will be opening a criminal investigation into Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate, a week after the controversial brothers arrived in the Sunshine State. Both brothers have been accused of trafficking minors, rape, and money laundering and were detained in Romania for over two years pending charges. Romanian…

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser suggested the city will be painting over Black Lives Matter Plaza after Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) proposed withholding federal funds to Washington if it is not renamed. Black Lives Matter Plaza, the two blocks of 16th Street near the White House in Washington was designated as such in June 2020…

The American Bar Association responded to Elon Musk‘s calls to impeach justices by warning it was “unacceptable” and reaffirmed that the courts are a co-equal branch of government. Federal judges have issued several pauses to actions taken by the Department of Government Efficiency to cut waste in the federal government. Musk, who serves as President…

President Donald Trump is delivering his first address to a joint session of Congress in his second term in the White House. Trump’s speech will begin at 9 p.m. from the House chamber in the Capitol. EVERYTHING TO KNOW ABOUT TRUMP’S JOINT ADDRESS TO CONGRESS The speech will be similar to a State of the…

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence application, has raised concerns among lawmakers, with two members of the House of Representatives imploring governors to act as they attempt regulation at the federal level. Reps. Darin LaHood (R-IL) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), both members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, have proposed legislation banning DeepSeek on…

North Carolina is still rebuilding after Hurricane Helene‘s devastation, but a key piece of infrastructure partially reopened over the weekend. In the western part of the Tar Heel State, parts of various roadways vital for interstate travel and commerce, including Interstate-40, were washed away during flooding caused by the storm in September 2024. While the…

First lady Melania Trump will advocate for legislation to regulate deepfakes during a meeting on Capitol Hill Monday, her first solo engagement since returning to the White House. The bill Trump will highlight, the “TAKE IT DOWN” Act, was introduced by a bipartisan group of senators, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), in the last…