MANCHESTER— The Biden-Harris reelection campaign has hired another five staffers for New Hampshire as it seeks to win the state’s four electoral votes over likely Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Lately, it’s become popular in conservative media circles to brand certain things as a psychological operation, or “psyop.”
The Teamsters’ political committee has given $45,000 to the Republican National Committee, according to federal records, a significant departure for a powerful organized labor group that has more recently supported Democrats, such as President Biden, who have championed workers’ rights.
In one way, it’s shocking that a key person in the GOP’s efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens has been indicted and tells prosecutors he has extensive ties to Russian intelligence.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted Tuesday’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting in Manchester, bringing the session to a halt with loud chants of “Free Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Manchester aldermen voted this week to send a request for an all-way stop with flashing lights at a busy Ward 1 intersection — despite a report from the city’s traffic engineer that the area doesn’t meet the necessary criteria — back to committee for more discussion.
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CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu said penalties eventually will be assessed against Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield for problems that state retirees have had in getting their prescriptions properly filled since the insurer took over management of the health insurance benefit on Jan. 1.
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CONCORD — Without debate, the state Executive Council rejected a bid by Robert McLaughlin, 83, for a hearing on his request for a pardon of his first-degree murder conviction for the 1988 slaying of Robert Cushing Sr. of Hampton.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
CONCORD — New Hampshire should join all other New England states to become part of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) that seeks to maintain accurate voter rolls and detect possible illegal voting, election reformers told a House committee Tuesday.
CONCORD — State prosecutors and lawyers representing most of the victims of sexual and physical abuse at the former Youth Development Center in Manchester announced agreement Tuesday on sweeping changes to the state’s $100 million settlement fund.
Nikki Haley Tuesday insisted she won’t end her long shot Republican primary bid to knock off former President Donald Trump even as she faces daunting odds of winning her home state of South Carolina or anywhere else.
The United States on Tuesday again vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, blocking a demand for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire as it instead pushes the 15-member body to call for a temporary cease-fire linked to the release of hostages held b…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined a chance to further restrict efforts to promote diversity in education, turning away an appeal by a coalition of parents and students who argued that an elite Virginia public school's revised admissions policy racially discriminates against Asian Americans.
WASHINGTON - Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives said Tuesday they are forming a bipartisan task force to explore potential legislation to address concerns around artificial intelligence.
MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. - The Biden-Harris pep rally at a union hall here was thrown together quickly, not wanting Donald Trump’s visit to Oakland County the next day to go unchecked.
Monday, February 19, 2024
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., is proposing a bipartisan bill to improve access for family caregivers through the federal 1-800-MEDICARE Hotline.
WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement and cybersecurity officials are warning the nation’s state election administrators that they face serious threats ahead of November’s presidential election.
Manchester aldermen are scheduled to vote Tuesday on a request for an all-way stop with flashing lights at a busy Ward 1 intersection despite a report from the city’s traffic engineer that the area doesn’t meet the necessary criteria.
Last year alone, David Mitchell paid $16,525 for 12 little bottles of Pomalyst, one of the pricey medications that treat his multiple myeloma, a blood cancer he was diagnosed with in 2010.
President Joe Biden said he would be willing to meet House Speaker Mike Johnson to discuss an emergency funding package for Ukraine and Israel, after White House officials previously dismissed the utility of direct talks.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu’s plan to use state dollars to send a 15-member, New Hampshire National Guard unit to the Texas border won approval along partisan lines.
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley assailed Donald Trump’s foreign policy, condemning the former president for his silence on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexander Navalny.
PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump made a brief stop in Philadelphia on Saturday to announce his new sneaker brand and remind a crowd of sneakerheads to vote.
Flanked by armed National Guard members, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced on Friday plans to build a base housing up to 1,800 troops in Eagle Pass, close to the riverfront area where state leaders have been at loggerheads with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
One Senate leader exited the long negotiations on border and global security with a bitterly divided caucus, as some rank-and-file clamored for his resignation. The other Senate leader ended those talks with an almost perfectly unified caucus, believing he had scored both a policy and politi…
THE INK WAS barely dry on the latest proposal to legalize recreational use of marijuana when some insiders declared it dead on arrival in the state Senate.
ONE OF THE MORE interesting aspects of Mayor Jay Ruais’s first ‘State of the City’ speech on Wednesday — other than the big reveal that he was once in a high school choir called the “Testostertones” — was his speaking openly about his own recovery from alcoholism, as he did many times while …
Donald Trump’s once-transactional relationship with the conservative legal establishment has splintered in recent years, and his frustration toward the court system has grown - potentially heralding more volatility in how he would navigate judicial issues in a second term.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has held his position for barely four months, not long by anyone’s standards, but long enough to ask this question: Does he have any major priority other than survival?
MT. PLEASANT, Mich./COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Donald Trump will address supporters at a campaign rally on Saturday for the first time since a New York judge ruled he must pay $354.9 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders.
Measuring setback distances or sidewalk widths are some of the more tedious tasks city planning officials dread. They are also the tasks ripe for automation.
Friday, February 16, 2024
CONCORD — New Hampshire is working under a fast-approaching deadline to spend nearly $40 million in federal funding it received under the American Rescue Plan Act, which Congress passed in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
NEW YORK — Donald Trump must pay $354.9 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders, a New York judge ruled on Friday, handing the former president another legal setback in a civil case that imperils his real estate empire.
CAIRO — Gaza’s largest functioning hospital was under siege on Friday in Israel’s war with Islamist group Hamas, leaving patients and doctors helpless in the chaos as warplanes struck Rafah, the last refuge for Palestinians in the enclave, officials said.
Alexei Navalny, the Russian lawyer and anti-corruption activist who became the most potent voice in opposition to President Vladimir Putin, a calling that landed him in a maximum-security prison camp, has died, according to the prison service. He was 47.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Friday he does not expect the Republican-led chamber will consider President Joe Biden’s request for billions of dollars more aid for Ukraine before mid-March, after it debates broader spending bills.
Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat from West Virginia, announced on Friday that he will not run for president after months of flirting with a campaign that threatened to complicate the 2024 presidential race.
The acting deputy chief of the U.S. Border Patrol was suspended on misconduct allegations Thursday and departed U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in downtown Washington, three CBP officials said.
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CONCORD — Without debate, the state Executive Council rejected a bid by Robert McLaughlin, 83, for a hearing on his request for a pardon of his first-degree murder conviction for the 1988 slaying of Robert Cushing Sr. of Hampton.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
CONCORD — New Hampshire should join all other New England states to become part of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) that seeks to maintain accurate voter rolls and detect possible illegal voting, election reformers told a House committee Tuesday.
CONCORD — State prosecutors and lawyers representing most of the victims of sexual and physical abuse at the former Youth Development Center in Manchester announced agreement Tuesday on sweeping changes to the state’s $100 million settlement fund.
Nikki Haley Tuesday insisted she won’t end her long shot Republican primary bid to knock off former President Donald Trump even as she faces daunting odds of winning her home state of South Carolina or anywhere else.
The United States on Tuesday again vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, blocking a demand for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire as it instead pushes the 15-member body to call for a temporary cease-fire linked to the release of hostages held b…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined a chance to further restrict efforts to promote diversity in education, turning away an appeal by a coalition of parents and students who argued that an elite Virginia public school's revised admissions policy racially discriminates against Asian Americans.