Republican lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation for a $3 billion tax cut, their just-unveiled counterproposal to Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro's budget plan as each side offers a competing vision for how to use a massive cash surplus sitting in the state treasury. The tax legislation cutting taxes on income and …...Read More
Pennsylvania Senate approves GOP's $3B tax-cutting plan, over objections of top Democrats
NC man convicted of sawed-off shotgun killing entitled to new trial
A man convicted of killing his landlord's adult son with a sawed-off shotgun is entitled to a new trial because the presiding judge failed to instruct jurors about a possible self-defense argument, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. A three-judge panel vacated the first-degree murder conviction of Ronald Wayne …...Read More
Speaker Johnson's possible leadership problem
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., remains House Speaker Mike Johnson. For now. Despite lots of threats, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has not yet pulled the trigger on her resolution to unseat Johnson. Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., huddled with Johnson for a second consecutive day Tuesday. Just last …...Read More
Rescuers make contact with 11 workers buried alive by South Africa collapse
Rescue teams trying to find dozens of construction workers missing since a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have made contact with 11 people buried alive beneath the mangled wreckage, authorities said Tuesday. One man called his wife from underneath the rubble of the five-story …...Read More
Semi-automatic gun ban nixed in Colorado’s Democratic-controlled statehouse after historic progress
A bill to ban the sale and transfer of semi-automatic firearms was nixed in Colorado’s Democratic-controlled Legislature on Tuesday as lawmakers pressed forward with a slew of other gun control bills on the 25th anniversary year of the Columbine High School massacre. The western state has a deep history with …...Read More
LAURA INGRAHAM: NY v. Trump is a political hit job
Fox News host Laura Ingraham says Republicans must make sure Democrats are not allowed to weaponize the justice system for their own political goals on " The Ingraham Angle ." LAURA INGRAHAM: Any legal analyst who isn't calling this what it is, a political hit job masquerading as a felony …...Read More
2 of 3 suspects in Canadian Sikh separatist leader's killing appear in court
Two of the three men charged in the slaying of Canadian Sikh separatist leader Singh Nijjar in June made a brief first court appearance on Tuesday morning. The killing of the prominent activist became the center of a diplomatic spat after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in September that …...Read More
Court clears way for high-voltage power line to cross Mississippi River refuge
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for utilities to finish building a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River refuge. American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative are in the final stages of constructing a 102-mile transmission line linking Iowa’s Dubuque County and Wisconsin’s Dane County. …...Read More
Republican candidate selected as GOP seeks to flip Indiana House seat from blue to red
Randy Niemeyer will serve as the Republican nominee in one of Indiana's most closely watched House races. Niemeyer, who won the Republican Party's nomination for Indiana's First Congressional District on Tuesday, will now face off against incumbent Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan in the state's general election later this year. Along …...Read More
2 dead in Minnesota mobile home explosion
Two people died when a mobile home exploded in Minnesota early Tuesday in a blast heard miles away. MINNESOTA WOMAN ACCUSED OF KILLING 2 CHILDREN, SETTING HOUSE ON FIRE The explosion in Princeton prompted several calls to 911 shortly after 4 a.m., Mille Lacs County Sheriff's Deputy Aaron Evenson told …...Read More
