Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is shelling out $15 million in an effort to broaden transgender services for city residents, Them first reported Friday. The Mamdani administration’s new effort will include three initiatives designed to bolster access to “gender-affirming” care in New York City: a “direct” transgender service access fund, a call and text…
New Jersey lawmakers have been funneling last-minute appropriations into state budgets to benefit their and their families’ groups in recent years. Some Democratic state lawmakers have repeatedly slipped “add-ons” into New Jersey’s annual budget, according to a Politico examination covering fiscal year 2024 through FY2026. These legislators directed millions of taxpayer dollars to their own…
President Donald Trump’s energy independence promise could depend on Permian Basin drilling. Despite 10% of the world’s oil supply being reportedly trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz, energy industry insiders report expansions to U.S. oil production. The Permian Basin region hosts some of the largest oil and gas deposits in the world. The U.S. Department…
The Trump administration requested that OpenAI to stagger the release of its latest model for security concerns just weeks after Anthropic was told to suspend global access to two of its most capable artificial intelligence models. Sam Altman’s GPT 5.6 was set to release next month when the White House’s Office of the National Cyber…
A Republican Commonwealth’s Attorney clashed with a local GOP committee after he aided Democratic Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones in defending a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms. A judge in Lancaster County, Virginia, sided with the Virginia Citizen’s Defense League and Gun Owners of America by putting the ban Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed into law…
