Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a measure Wednesday that could have earmarked up to $5 million for gun-detection systems in schools while expressing concern that it could have benefitted only one particular company. Kelly's line-item veto leaves in place $5 million for school safety grants but deletes specific wording that she said would have essentially converted the program “into a no-bid contract” by eliminating “nearly all potential competition.” The company that stood to benefit is ZeroEyes, a firm founded by military veterans after the fatal shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.
Sen. Mitt Romney said President Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump and pressured New York prosecutors not to pursue the hush money trial against the former president.
The ruling could be a boon for Democrats and Black voters if the map is used for the November elections.
On the anniversary of the Nakba, Palestinians remember the profound loss and ongoing struggle for justice.
Family members of a Navy veteran who died in 2020 after a police officer pressed a knee to his neck for nearly five minutes while he was in a mental health crisis have settled a federal lawsuit against the Northern California city of Antioch for $7.5 million, their attorneys said Wednesday. After Angelo Quinto's death, his family also pushed for reforms that led to city and state changes in how law enforcement agencies respond to people who are in a mental health crisis. John Burris, one of the attorneys, said in a statement that while no amount of money can compensate for Quinto's death, “his family is to be commended for their unwavering commitment to improving the relationship between the community and Antioch police.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. currently does not meet the qualifying threshold for the first presidential debate Biden and Trump agreed to participate in.
The report also highlights the financial destruction that can occur when workers take unpaid time off after being hurt or tired from the job.
Donald Trump told a room of wealthy donors that he had questions about Cricket, the 14-month-old dog who was shot and killed by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.
US consumer inflation eased slightly last month, according to government data published Wednesday, in a positive sign for President Joe Biden ahead of November's election.In more good news for US consumers, a widely-watched inflation measure that excludes volatile food and energy prices also eased last month, rising at an annual rate of 3.6 percent, down from 3.8 percent in March.
South Africa will ask the top U.N. court on Thursday to order a halt to the Rafah offensive as part of its case in The Hague accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip. The hearings at the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, come after South Africa last week asked for additional emergency measures to protect Rafah, a southern Gaza city where more than a million Palestinians have been sheltering.
And just 13% think it would be “a good idea” for Trump to pick Noem as his running mate.
Budget drinkers might want to skip the bar and raise a glass at home this summer.
The battle over congressional district lines in Louisiana involves how much states should weigh race. The state's new map has been called 'morally repugnant.'
Six months after Geert Wilders won a stunning election victory, squabbling politicians finally clinched an agreement Wednesday on a coalition government, said the Dutch far-right leader, who will not be prime minister.It was not immediately clear who would be prime minister to lead the right-wing coalition government and replace Mark Rutte, who is almost certain to be tapped as the new NATO secretary general.
A new political action committee has begun pouring money into a key Oregon swing district just days before the Democratic primary there, raising questions about whether Republicans are trying to tilt the scales in the contest. The primary features Janelle Bynum and Jamie McLeod-Skinner and will take place Tuesday. The Democrats are vying to compete against Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a first-term Republican lawmaker who narrowly won the 2022 election over McLeod-Skinner by about 7,300 votes and just 2 percentage points.
A consultant the Chicago Blackhawks hired to improve relationships with American Indian tribes has filed a lawsuit accusing the team, its charity foundation and its CEO of fraud, breach of contract and sexual harassment. Nina Sanders filed the civil action late Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court. Wirtz promised that he would create positions for American Indians, buy land to give to the Sac and Fox Nation and change the team's logo if she decided to accept the job, according to the lawsuit.
As Florida copes with rising seas and record temperatures, Gov. Ron DeSantis and state lawmakers are going to exceptional lengths to delete many mentions of climate change from state laws.
Ransomware attack targeted a Nissan virtual private network, the automaker's U.S. subsidiary said.
The IMF said Wednesday that its board had voted to allow member states' IMF-issued international reserve assets to be used by multilateral development banks (MDBs) to acquire financial instruments that would stretch their balance sheets further. The International Monetary Fund said in a statement that the move would allow member states to let their Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) -- international reserve assets created by the Fund -- be used by MDBs to obtain so-called "hybrid capital" instruments
Many new mothers in the U.S. don't get treatment for depression or opioid use because there's no widely deployed system for mental illness screening in the first year after giving birth.