A member of the Pennsylvania Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee is advocating for allowing cameras in the state’s courtrooms. State Representative Jamie Flick, a Republican from Lycoming, is looking for other lawmakers to support a bill that may change Rule 1910 of the Pennsylvania Code. According to state law, judges are required to prevent broadcasting, televising,...
Transportation leaders in Washington are using drones to help address the state’s graffiti problem. Oregon is also considering doing the same. The Washington State Department of Transportation started a drone pilot program on Monday. The program aims to address graffiti in Tacoma and Olympia. The agency said that the state has six trucks specifically designed...
Here’s a heartwarming story from Oregon: Cheng “Charlie” Saephan from Portland has just won the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot. He is still trying to understand the significance of this life-changing moment, and he is expressing how much it means to him. Saephan was born in Laos and then moved to Thailand in 1987. Later, in...
Insurance rates for home and business owners are increasing due to recent storms. Sometimes, their insurance policies are not being renewed. An insurance expert says that it’s a problem that can be solved using basic math. Insurance companies are paying out more money for weather disasters than they are collecting from premiums. And that is...
The campaign of former President Trump criticized the Commission on Presidential Debates on Tuesday for refusing to change the schedule of the debates. They called this refusal “unacceptable” and hinted that the 45th president might find a way to bypass the commission, which has organized all general election presidential debates for many years. The schedule...
Sarah Matthews, a former employee of former President Trump, announced on Monday that she will not vote for her former boss in November. Instead, she indicated that she might vote for President Biden. “During an interview on MSNBC’s ‘Inside with Jen Psaki,’ Matthews stated that if there is a candidate on the ballot who will...
On Tuesday, United Methodist delegates made significant changes to their policies on sexuality. They voted to reverse a series of policies that were against LGBTQ individuals, without any debate. The delegates decided to remove the requirement for strict punishments for performing same-sex marriages and to eliminate the rules that prohibited LGBTQ individuals from becoming ministers...
Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York, submitted an ethics complaint against special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday. She accused Smith, who is in charge of the federal investigations into former President Trump, of attempting to unlawfully interfere with the 2024 presidential election. Stefanik, who is the House GOP conference chair and a close...
The Biden administration is thinking about bringing certain Palestinians to the United States as refugees. This would provide a permanent safe place for some of those who are escaping the war-torn Gaza. The information comes from internal documents from the federal government that CBS News obtained. According to the documents, senior officials from various U.S....
When Donald Trump said he couldn’t be prosecuted for trying to overturn the 2020 election because he was the president, legal experts ABC News talked to thought it wasn’t a strong argument. Last week, during a discussion that lasted almost three hours, some Supreme Court justices appeared to be considering the idea of providing certain...