Tag: House
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Buying a house gets easier in key battleground counties — but voters may not feel it before the 2024 election
Maricopa County, Arizona 2020 margin: Biden +2.2 In Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, home hunters are finally starting to see “the first little smidgen of any advantage that they’ve had since 2021,” said Tina Tamboer, a senior analyst with the Cromford Report, an Arizona real estate research firm. It’s the beginnings of a reprieve after…
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‘Death trap’ Queens haunted house sued after injuries from alleged safety hazards
A haunted house in Queens proved to be too horrific for some who have filed lawsuits claiming they were injured inside the frightful attraction. A Haunting in Hollis was shut down Oct. 5th after the FDNY called it a “death trap,” citing various safety hazards inside the two-family house that had been illegally converted into…
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Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson’s testimony postponed at House committee hearing
A highly anticipated legislative hearing began Monday but without its key witness: a Texas inmate whose execution for his daughter’s “shaken baby” death was narrowly averted last week. Robert Roberson was expected to appear before the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence in Austin after members issued a subpoena on Wednesday for him to testify…
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House task force details security failures before first Trump assassination attempt
WASHINGTON — The Secret Service did not properly plan and coordinate with local law enforcement ahead of former President Donald Trump’s July 13 campaign rally, where he was shot at in an assassination attempt, a new report says. The interim report by the House task force investigating the attempt on his life that day says…
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Biden White House proposes insurance cover OTC birth control at no cost
The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would provide women with private insurance access to over-the-counter birth control pills and other contraceptives at no cost, the White House said on Monday. The rule, which expands a federal mandate requiring health insurers to cover preventative care services at no cost to patients under the Affordable…
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Arizona is a top presidential battleground. But the Senate and House races there are taking place in their own universe.
PHOENIX — Mesa Mayor John Giles, a Republican who supports Kamala Harris for president, is vexed by the disconnect between Arizona’s presidential race and what’s happening down the ballot. Polls show Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake, the quintessential Donald Trump acolyte, losing a significant slice of the former president’s voters to her Democratic rival, Rep.…
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Drone strike launched from Lebanon towards Netanyahu’s house; Gaza hospitals under attack
Share IDF says 55 projectiles launched from Lebanon into Israel this morning At least 55 projectiles were launched from Lebanon into Israel in the sapce of an hour on Saturday morning, according to the Israeli military. Sirens had begun to sound across Israel ahead of the latest wave of missiles, including in the port city…
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Drone strike launched from Lebanon towards Netanyahu’s house, no casualities reported
A drone was launched towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in the the northern Israel town of Caesarea on Saturday morning, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s office. Netanyahu and his wife were not in the building, and there were no causalities. The Israel Defense Forces said a drone crossing from Lebanon “hit a…
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A Black conservative radio host invoked “field” and “house” slaves in arguing why some Black men back Trump
Black conservative radio host Shelley Wynter drew outrage from many when he broke down the Black male electorate in the U.S. into “house African Americans and field African Americans” during an appearance Wednesday on CNN. Wynter told NBC News on Thursday that he knew his remarks would be “a bazooka blast,” but still stood by…
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Harris team and White House discussed plans for her to distance from Biden
WASHINGTON — The White House and Vice President Harris’ team have been in frequent contact about how she planned to distance herself from President Joe Biden, while maintaining her overall loyalty to him, according to three people familiar with the dynamic. That’s why Biden’s comments Tuesday night about how she would “cut her own path”…