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Fourteen Amtrak executives obtained greater than $200,000 in incentive bonuses final yr regardless of the service’s poor latest monetary efficiency and struggles with its capital enchancment initiatives, based on paperwork obtained by The New York Times. In 2023, Amtrak paid out greater than $5 million in short- and long-term incentive bonuses to its executives even […] More

Twenty years in the past, when the Eggers household of Cape Coral, Fla., received the devastating information that their eldest son had been killed in Afghanistan, they did what Gold Star households do. They buried him at Arlington National Cemetery. They listened as an Army priest described his final battlefield confession. They mourned with President […] More

Just about the one one who reveals any curiosity in Ben Carson because the Republican vice-presidential nominee is the one whose opinion issues probably the most: Donald J. Trump. Mr. Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and former housing secretary in Mr. Trump’s administration, is into consideration as considered one of “many individuals that may do a […] More

Sam Brown, an Army veteran who was the heavy favourite within the Nevada Republican major race for Senate even earlier than former President Donald J. Trump’s last-minute endorsement, received the nomination on Tuesday, in response to The Associated Press. He will face Senator Jacky Rosen, the state’s Democratic incumbent, in one of the vital carefully […] More

Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, on Tuesday defeated a well-funded major challenger, placing her on monitor to win a 3rd time period. Her resounding victory additionally dealt a serious blow to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s efforts to precise political retribution towards those that voted to oust him. Ms. Mace, 46, who as soon […] More

Hunter Biden was ready for his father on the tarmac. He had simply been convicted on three felony gun costs by a jury in Wilmington, Del., his hometown. His father had rapidly rearranged his schedule and rushed up from Washington. Within hours of the decision, President Biden traveled dwelling, disembarked from Marine One and embraced […] More

David Boaz, an apostle of “cheap, radical libertarianism” who argued that Americans are entitled to pursue life, liberty and happiness with out authorities meddling of their bedrooms or boardrooms or with their hashish, died on Friday at his house in Arlington, Va. He was 70. The trigger was issues of esophageal most cancers, his longtime […] More

The presidential major season is over, however down-ballot primaries are nonetheless occurring throughout the nation. Candidates will likely be on the poll on Tuesday in 5 states: South Carolina, Nevada, Maine, North Dakota and Ohio, the place a particular House race will happen. Representative Bill Johnson retired from Ohio’s Sixth Congressional District in January, and […] More

President Biden warned on Monday of “previous ghosts in new clothes making an attempt to take us again” in remarks commemorating Juneteenth, the nationwide vacation that marks the liberty of the final enslaved folks in America, and vowed that his administration was dedicated to defending Black historical past and civil rights. Speaking from the South […] More

A federal judge on Monday barely narrowed the labeled paperwork case towards former President Donald J. Trump, saying prosecutors can not cost him based mostly on an episode through which he’s mentioned to have proven a extremely delicate army map to a political adviser months after leaving workplace. The determination by the judge, Aileen M. […] More

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. advised a lady posing as a Catholic conservative final week that compromise in America between the left and proper is perhaps unimaginable after which agreed with the view that the nation ought to return to a spot of godliness. “One facet or the opposite goes to win,” Justice Alito advised […] More

Two Black Republican House members and Trump surrogates reserved a cigar bar close to downtown Philadelphia final week and invited conservative organizers and Trump-curious Black voters to smoke and sip cognac. Some Democrats denounced it as a crass play, rooted in stereotype. But the occasion was geared towards a demographic that Republicans — and particularly […] More