Day: January 2, 2024

Ruby-red Kentucky begins new legislative session with budget talks, policy clashes on horizon

7:59 pm January 2, 2024

Kentucky lawmakers returned to work Tuesday for a 60-day session that’ll be dominated by negotiations over the next state budget, with Republican supermajorities in both chambers once again shaping Bluegrass State policies even as voters have extended an era of divided government by reelecting Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. Both the House and Senate gaveled in […]

Dancing Bears Festival in Romania draws global tourism each year

7:10 pm January 2, 2024

A small industrial town in northeast Romania may seem like an unlikely tourist destination, but Comanesti is where huge numbers of visitors from as far away as Japan choose to spend part of the winter holiday season. They converge here to see an annual event that grew out of a millennia-old tradition in the Moldavia […]

Climate activists who chased Buttigieg, Powell off stages rewarded with private White House meeting

7:07 pm January 2, 2024

A far-left climate activist organization was granted a private meeting with senior White House adviser John Podesta last month after the group repeatedly derailed federal officials’ public events with disruptive protests. The Washington, D.C.-based Climate Defiance — which was founded in early 2023 by activists Michael Greenberg and Rylee Haught — announced last week on […]

2 dead, including robbery suspect, in Missouri wrong-way crash

7:04 pm January 2, 2024

Two people are dead after a Missouri robbery suspect’s vehicle was going the wrong way on an interstate highway while being chased by officers early Tuesday and slammed into another vehicle, killing both drivers, police said. MISSOURI MAN BUSTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ROBBING ST. LOUIS WOUNDED VETERANS GROUP The accident happened just after 4 a.m. on […]

Chip Roy to skip House GOP border trip, says Texas is ‘tired’ of ‘press conferences’

7:00 pm January 2, 2024

FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is refusing to attend House Republicans’ planned trip to the southern border, he told fellow lawmakers on Tuesday, arguing that those being affected by the migrant crisis are “tired” of such events. “I commend Speaker Johnson’s efforts to take a group of House Republicans to the Texas border […]