Former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Michael Brown said that Congress should give the disaster relief agency back its independent agency status, allowing it direct access to the president which would, in his view, improve its overall operation. The smartest thing they could do is to pull FEMA out, give it back...

Nate Reynolds collected 32 points and 22 rebounds as Bourne (8-1) won 73-57 over South Coast Conference boys basketball opponent Old Rochester. In a Mayflower Athletic Conference game, Patrick Jackson finished with 16 points and nine rebounds while Jayden Fraser added 13 points to lead South Shore Tech to a 76-36 victory over Bristol Aggie. […]

Attorney General Merrick Garland gave a tearful goodbye while warning of the risks of "grave injustice" for those who abuse the Justice Department's power. Much of Garland's parting remarks were a defense of the agency he's led the last four years while making veiled nods to the anxieties of those with a stake in the...

Click for more from The Hill {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump EPA, Interior picks poised for confirmation Environment watchers faced a split screen on Thursday as President-elect Trump's picks to lead the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency both faced confirmation hearings. Greg Nash The Burgum hearing:...

After four years of intense legal battles against the feds over immigration, abortion and environmental policies, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he's looking forward to a "fairer shake" from the Justice Department starting next week.

On their way to winning the 2024 NBA championship, the Boston Celtics won 80 of the 101 total games they played, a winning percentage just a shade under .800. Through the first 25 games of this season, the Celtics won 20. Again, that’s a winning percentage of .800. For that matter, in the 2024-2025 preseason, […]The post

California Attorney General Rob Bonta held a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 16, warning price gougers that they will be held accountable for increased prices trying to take advantage of LA wildfire victims and evacuees.

'Trump and the Make America Great Again movement are a mortal threat to these bureaucrats'

A Florida jury began deliberations this afternoon in a security consultant’s defamation lawsuit against CNN. Zachary Young sued the network following a report in 2021 that he sought exorbitant fees to evacuate Afghans in what amounted to a black market in the chaotic U.S. withdrawal. The segment from Marquardt was aired on CNN on November […]

A Florida jury began deliberations this afternoon in a security consultant’s defamation lawsuit against CNN. Zachary Young sued the network following a report in 2021 that he sought exorbitant fees to evacuate Afghans in what amounted to a black market in the chaotic U.S. withdrawal. The segment from Marquardt was aired on CNN on November […]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced on Thursday that he has tapped his chief of staff James Uthmeier to be the state’s next attorney general. DeSantis made the remarks after he announced that he had selected Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to replace Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in the U.S. Senate after he was nominated ...

The Trump-Vance administration has the opportunity to take decisive action to curb the devastating effects of drug normalization and addiction.

'Trump needs a valiant defender'

President-elect Trump's pick for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, Lee Zeldin, appears poised to be able to carry out the significant level of climate and environmental deregulation Trump has indicated he plans to pursue after a Thursday hearing moved him toward his likely confirmation. During the confirmation hearing, Zeldin declined to say whether he believed the EPA...

Lee Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, is promising to preserve a clean environment “without suffocating the economy.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis named Ashley Moody, Floridas Attorney General, as Floridas U.S. Senator. And he listed her anti-trans record on gender-affirming health care for minors as one of his reasons.

Rep. Nancy Maces (R-S.C.) bill entitled the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act passed in a 274 to 145 vote on Thursday with over a quarter of Democrats voting in support. The new legislation seeks to deem illegal immigrants who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence as inadmissible and deportable. Sixty-one Democrats...