The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which secured for women the right to vote, was ratified on this day in history, August 18, 1920. It is considered one of the great landmarks in the fight for gender equality. The amendment was often called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, in reference to the renowned suffragist...
Republican strategists are predicting a GOP voter homecoming to support Senate hopefuls and down-ballot Republicans in critical states on election day, despite current figures showing their candidates at a disadvantage. “A lot of the Trump vote just hasn’t put their jersey on for the Republican candidate yet,”one veteran Republican strategist said. However, those voters are...
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. stepped into a hornet’s nest of criticism after mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris’ name during a CNN panel. Appearing on “CNN Newsnight” on Thursday, Mace stressed the wrong syllable when pronouncing Harris’ name, prompting outrage from Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson and Democratic strategist Keith Boykin, both of whom raised...
The FBI has fired back at claims by a GOP congressman that the agency released the body of Thomas Matthew Crooks for cremation just 10 days after his assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month. The agency says it refutes allegations by Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., who says that when...
Many federal agencies have implemented hybrid work models, allowing leaders to refine strategies to adapt to evolving employee needs and mission-driven objectives. However, as the White House’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) releases flexible new guidance in August on federal remote work, it becomes evident that there is tension between this flexible approach and congressional...
FIRST ON FOX: A group of leading bipartisan senators conducting oversight of homeland security and governmental matters are demanding answers from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after an alleged Iranian agent was charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for orchestrating a scheme to assassinate a politician...
Social Security has just turned 89 years old, but there are questions about its solvency headed into the November presidential election. The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Aug. 14, 1935, as a way of establishing a federal benefits system for older Americans. Today, Social Security’s trust fund...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president, signed the Social Security bill into law on this day in history, Aug. 14, 1935. He did so a mere 14 months after he sent a special message to Congress on June 8, 1934, that promised a plan for social insurance as a safeguard “against the hazards and...
FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and her past support of federal funding for sanctuary cities is being used against her ahead of her critical re-election battle in November. “Senator Tammy Baldwin voted nine times to support federal funding for sanctuary cities,” the ad from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell-aligned group One Nation. The group...
Rep. Celeste Maloy, R-Utah won Tuesday’s Utah Republican primary election for the state’s 2nd congressional district. Maloy faced off against her combat veteran challenger Colby Jenkins. Maloy will take on the Democratic nominee come November. Utah’s 2nd district, which includes cities such as Cedar City and St. George, has been a reliably Republican voting district...
