OTR: Lt. Gov. Driscoll breaks down search for new state police leader
The former mayor of Salem talks about her transition to Massachusetts lieutenant governor and answers a lightning round of questions.
Recommended Stories
HuffPost‘Public Humiliation’: Lauren Boebert Makes A Splash With Weird Rant On Pee Laws
The conspiracy theorist lawmaker went on a long, weird and wrong tangent about public urination laws.
- Business Insider
It'll cost DeSantis' handpicked board at least $1,300 per hour to hire a team of lawyers to investigate how Disney outmaneuvered them
The Florida government will pay two law firms hefty fees just to get themselves out of a mess they previously made.
- Washington Post
Democrats' anger boils over after GOP witnesses testify without taking questions
Democratic lawmakers didn't hold back their anger Thursday at a House hearing about social media and censorship when a pair of Republican witnesses delivered testimony and left without being questioned. The shouting began after Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), the former attorney general of Missouri, and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) testified before the House Judiciary subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government about what they claimed was the Biden administration's effor
- Fortune
Janet Yellen says the Trump administration ‘decimated’ the Treasury’s financial stability department and she’s focused on repairing the ‘cracks’
Yellen claimed many teams responsible for banking regulation were either drastically cut or completely eliminated before her tenure, and she’s had to “rebuild the financial stability infrastructure.”
- USA TODAY
'Rogue' gun dealers revealed: What to know as ATF names gun shops that flout federal laws
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began listing names of gun shops that flouted federal laws.
- Tallahassee Democrat
Gun owners get right to carry without a permit in Florida – but not where lawmakers meet
The measure does away with background checks, training, and fees for a concealed weapons license. There are more than 2.6 million CWL holders.
- GOBankingRates
Social Security’s Latest Rule Could Mean Bigger Payments — If It Passes
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients might soon get bigger monthly payments if the Social Security Administration succeeds in pushing through a proposed change in how benefits are calculated....
- Sacramento Bee
California Democrat kicked off committee after casting ‘no’ vote on Gavin Newsom oil penalty
‘Stand alone if you must, but always stand for the truth,’ Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains of Kern County tweeted after the vote.
- Lexington Herald-Leader
Members of KY House GOP kicked off committees at final hour. Some suggest it’s ‘retaliation.’
After being kicked off multiple House committees in the final hour of session, one House representative says that it’s “retaliation.” U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie called it “short sighted” and said it had “an air of pettiness.”
- Politico
Secret Pence ruling breaks new ground for vice presidency
For the first time in history, a federal judge ruled that vice presidents can benefit from a type of immunity typically provided to lawmakers.
- HuffPost
Seth Meyers Has A Theory About Lauren Boebert's Bizarre Public Urination Fixation
The "Late Night" host was blown away by the Colorado Republican's baffling rant about peeing in public.
- NBC News
McCarthy says Republicans will pass their own debt limit bill if Biden won't talk
Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday that House Republicans are prepared to pass their own debt ceiling bill if President Joe Biden won't agree to negotiate it.
- The Times Herald
Local gun store owners view proposed firearm legislation with opposition, indifference
Sen. Lauwers: 'We create laws to make all the honest people prove that they're being honest.'
- Reuters
Minnesota's 21-year age minimum for handgun carry permits struck down
A federal judge on Friday struck down a Minnesota law requiring a person to be at least 21 before obtaining a permit to carry a handgun in public, finding it violated the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The order by U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez in St. Paul is the latest in a series of legal defeats for state gun control measures following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year expanding gun rights nationwide. The state's 21-year age minimum, enacted as part of a 2003 gun control law, had been challenged in a 2021 lawsuit by three gun rights groups - Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, Firearms Policy Coalition and Second Amendment Foundation - and three individuals.
- The Star Gazette
Elmira says police chief dismissed for 'unprofessional' reaction to body cam investigation
The City of Elmira released police bodycam footage from a December 2022 incident that reportedly resulted in the firing of Police Chief Alvernaz.
- The Topeka Capital-Journal
'Continuing down this path will kill Kansas kids': Anti-vaccine bills pass Kansas Senate
Kansas Republicans split on anti-vaccine and anti-public health bills in the Senate, with Topeka Sen. Kristen O'Shea leading small GOP opposition.
- GOBankingRates
Food Stamps: Can SNAP Be Used to Pay Your Water Bill?
Technically, water is not food -- but a lot of food stamp recipients still use their benefits to purchase water. A 2016 study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that Supplemental Nutrition...
- AP Finance
Responding to Indigenous, Vatican rejects Discovery Doctrine
The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and form the basis of some property laws today. A Vatican statement said the papal bulls, or decrees, “did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples” and have never been considered expressions of the Catholic faith. The statement, from the Vatican’s development and education offices, marked a historic recognition of the Vatican's own complicity in colonial-era abuses committed by European powers.
- Reuters
Pakistani parliament approves new law to curtail chief justice's powers
Pakistan's parliament has passed a new law to curtail the powers of the Supreme Court's chief justice, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said on Friday, a move that comes amid a row between the higher judiciary and the government. Tarar had introduced the bill in the lower house of the parliament on Wednesday and it was passed by the senate, or upper house, on Thursday. "The parliament has passed the bill," Tarar told reporters on Friday.
- The Courier & Press
I-69 Ohio River Crossing proceeds to next stage of development
The proposed bridge would connect Evansville and Henderson, Kentucky, via the I-69 corridor.