Day: May 8, 2024

Striking Kenyan doctors sign return-to-work agreement

8:01 pm May 8, 2024

Kenya’s public hospital doctors union on Wednesday signed a return to work agreement with the government, ending a national strike that began in mid-March and had left patients in limbo. Davji Atellah, the union secretary general, said the doctors agreed to trust the government to implement an agreement to ensure the labor issues that caused […]

New poll reveals how many Dems agree with demands of anti-Israel campus protesters

7:06 pm May 8, 2024

Democrats are divided over the anti-Israel protests that have erupted on college campuses across the country this spring over Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, according to a new national poll. And the USA Today/Suffolk University survey released on Wednesday indicates that Republicans are mostly united in their opposition to the demonstrations, some of which […]

House GOP eyes election safeguards to block ‘dangerously high number’ of illegal immigrants from voting

7:06 pm May 8, 2024

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., unveiled legislation on Wednesday aimed at blocking non-citizens from voting in U.S. elections. Johnson held a high-profile press conference at the base of the U.S. Capitol to promote the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act alongside the bill’s leaders in the House and Senate, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike […]

‘Fervent opposition’: Blue city mayor scraps plan to open new migrant shelter after backlash

7:03 pm May 8, 2024

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is backing off from a plan to open a new migrant shelter in the city’s South Side, after the alderwoman who represents the area “fully and unequivocally” opposed it. Ald. Nicole Lee, a Democrat, had told constituents last week that she had been notified that the administration was considering plans […]

WATCH: Dem Senate candidate caught on video screaming at reporter over controversial police remark

6:59 pm May 8, 2024

The Democrat frontrunner in one of this year’s top Senate races went off on a reporter this week who pressed him concerning a controversial remark he made on social media about police. The tense exhange between Rep. David Trone, D-Md., and Fox 5 reporter Tom Fitzgerald happened during a campaign stop in Rockville, Maryland, on […]