President-elect Donald Trump responded to President Joe Biden’s expansive pardon of his son, Hunter, calling it a “miscarriage of justice.” The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday began weighing its role in determining whether a Tennessee law banning medication to treat gender dysphoria for minors violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. A leading member of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet says that Canada will bolster its border security after meeting with Preside...
Dec 06, 2024•48 min•Ep. 60
President-elect Donald Trump’s new border czar Tom Homan is putting together an extensive deportation plan for when he hits the ground running after they are both sworn into office in January. Washington state’s trucking industry is urging Gov. Jay Inslee to reconsider a first-of-the-year commitment to align with California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulation, which requires a certain percentage of so-called "zero emissions" trucks to be sold in the state. At the eleventh hour, Gov. Josh Shapiro ...
Nov 27, 2024•48 min•Ep. 59
Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled pick to lead the U.S. Department of Justice as attorney general, said Thursday he was withdrawing his name from consideration to lead the federal law enforcement agency. Pennsylvania's state Supreme Court told counties on Monday that ballots with dating errors cannot be counted as valid. The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Deanne Criswell, told lawmakers that she personally approved the firing of an employee who directed FEMA ...
Nov 22, 2024•48 min•Ep. 58
President-Elect Donald Trump has begun announcing his picks for his new cabinet. The Ohio Chamber of Commerce and nearly 20 business groups from four states want the Biden administration to start handing out money from the CHIPS Act immediately. U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., to lead the party in the Senate. And more... Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Full story...
Nov 15, 2024•48 min•Ep. 57
Former President Donald Trump addressed a raucous crowd of his supporters in Palm Beach, Florida, early Wednesday to declare victory in both the Electoral College and the popular vote in the 2024 presidential race. Voters nationwide approved seven of 10 ballot initiatives preserving abortion rights. Five on marijuana got a mixed response on Tuesday. All 8 ballot measure to prohibit noncitizens voting were approved – all overwhelmingly by 62% or more. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.c...
Nov 08, 2024•48 min•Ep. 56
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are locked in a tight race with Election Day right around the corner. The U.S. Supreme Court has granted Virginia’s emergency request to keep “noncitizens” off voter rolls, Attorney General Jason Miyares announced Wednesday morning via a social media post. Democrats and Republicans are battling in races around the country for majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, but with just days until Election Day, who will get control is still...
Nov 01, 2024•48 min•Ep. 55
Vice President Kamala Harris narrowly leads former President Donald Trump nationally in the latest polling, but it may not be enough. Two weeks out from Election Day, Trump holds a lead over Harris in all seven of the closest swing states, according ot the Real Clear Politics, which averages recent polls in those states. United States Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told voters today's children will be the first to not know an America without high speed rail. Of the record 14 million ill...
Oct 25, 2024•48 min•Ep. 54
Vice President Kamala Harris sparred with Fox News host Bret Baier on immigration, the economy, and former President Donal Trump in an exclusive interview Wednesday night. Election officials and the State Legislature in North Carolina are making efforts to ensure voting continues and remains secure, while the damage from hurricanes Helene and Milton create questions for absentee ballots across several states. As FEMA runs short on money in the face of a bad hurricane season, questions are being ...
Oct 18, 2024•48 min•Ep. 53
Arab Americans are drifting away from supporting Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats as a whole, with many defecting to former President Donald Trump or Green Party Candidate Jill Stein. Three utilities are coming together for the first time to address energy challenges within the PJM Interconnection footprint. The U.S. annual deficit is nearing $2 trillion for this fiscal year, almost double the record deficits before the COVID-19 pandemic, as federal borrowing hit more than $5 billion p...
Oct 11, 2024•48 min•Ep. 52
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz exchanged barbs on the debate stage Tuesday night in what may be the final debate before Election Day just four weeks away. Southeastern governors, even those affected by Hurricane Helene, are sending National Guard, law enforcement and other first responders to western North Carolina. Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association will return to work after the port workers' union reached a tentative contract agreem...
Oct 04, 2024•48 min•Ep. 51
Federal authorities on Tuesday secured an indictment charging Ryan Wesley Routh with the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Conversations about noncitizen voting is growing louder as some states begin legislative efforts before the November elections. While California Governor Gavin Newsom touted California’s fast food jobs growth in a Fox News opinion column Wednesday, seasonally adjusted federal employment data contradicts the governor’s claims, finding that overall fast...
Sep 27, 2024•48 min•Ep. 50
U.S. lawmakers are calling for changes in how the U.S. Secret Service protects former President Donald Trump after a second assassination attempt Sunday. As California’s homeless population rises to a CalMatters-estimated 186,000, Republican legislators are demanding that Gov. Gavin Newsom sign a bill requiring the state to track homelessness spending and outcomes. The U.S. Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced a slight cut to the federal funds rate, the first cut since March of 2020, whe...
Sep 20, 2024•48 min•Ep. 49
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off on the debate stage in Philadelphia Tuesday evening, a major moment in a campaign that polling shows is evenly tied nationally and in the swing states. The debate focused on immigration, abortion, and crowd sizes at campaign rallies, but what went under-discussed was a topic close to the heart of Pennsylvania’s economy: energy. Twenty-three years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Americans are not any safer than they wer...
Sep 13, 2024•48 min•Ep. 48
North Carolina is the first battleground state to begin the voting process, sending out absentee by mail ballots on the 6th. The City of Surprise is officially being sued in the United States District Court of Arizona for alleged free speech violations. Unions see a clear path through the legislature to boost membership after several legal challenges saw workers leave in droves. A lawsuit is challenging a federal rule that three states and trade organizations say could hamper oil and gas explora...
Sep 06, 2024•48 min•Ep. 47
Vice President Harris gave first interview since launching her campaign, while new polls show gaining momentum. Immigration policy think tank the Center for Immigration Studies released its updated map of American sanctuary locations on Thursday, revealing a surge in Virginia localities adopting sanctuary status. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off a firestorm of controversy this week when he sent a letter to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee admitting his mistake in caving to pressure from the...
Aug 30, 2024•48 min•Ep. 46
Vice President and now-Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris formally accepted the party’s nomination on the final day of the Democratic National Convention Thursday night in Chicago. Police officials made mass arrests Tuesday night after pro-Palestinian protestors confronted and attacked police officers near the Israeli consulate during the Democratic National Convention. The Washington state trucking industry is calling on the Legislature and Gov. Jay Inslee to detach Washington state ...
Aug 23, 2024•48 min•Ep. 45
The DNC is coming up next week. California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a video blaming oil companies’ “greed” and “price gouging” for the state’s gas prices, which, at an average of $4.60 per gallon, are $1.16 above the national average. The federal deficit so far this fiscal year has already hit $1.5 trillion, the U.S. Treasury Department reported in its monthly fiscal update. The Cleveland Browns want a new $2.4 billion domed stadium using $1.2 billion in public funds in Brook Park, but Cuyahoga ...
Aug 16, 2024•48 min•Ep. 44
Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday night in her first official appearance with her new running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Budget burdens, pharmaceutical options and hyperbaric oxygen therapy are concerns North Carolina congressmen in the Senate and House of Representatives are raising with Veterans Affairs. Biden-Harris administration policies are resulting in Border Patrol agents releasing known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) into the U.S., a new...
Aug 09, 2024•48 min•Ep. 43
As the presidential race between Vice President Harris and Former President Trump takes a more definite form, polling shows a close race. A federal appeals court has ruled that the Biden administration can’t implement its Title IX rules in an additional four states, bringing the total number of statewide injunctions to 26 as the rules went into effect this week. The failures of the Secret Service around the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump are mounting but members of Cong...
Aug 02, 2024•48 min•Ep. 42
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris is nearly tied with former President Donald Trump in national polling, according to the latest survey results. The numbers reveal an entirely new political landscape after a tumultuous few weeks in the presidential race, beginning with a disastrous debate performance by Biden, which led to widespread calls for his leaving the race, even from his own party. U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday a...
Jul 26, 2024•48 min•Ep. 41
The U.S. Secret Service is facing an array of tough questions, calls for accountability, firings and investigations this week as well as public feuding with local law enforcement in the wake of the assassination attempt last weekend. Just after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning parental notification for gender change requests from K-12 students, entrepreneur Elon Musk announced he is moving the headquarters of X, formerly known as Twitter, and SpaceX from California to Texas...
Jul 19, 2024•48 min•Ep. 40
In his first news conference since his critically panned debate performance two weeks ago, President Joe Biden on Thursday made numerous mistakes while talking for about an hour on a range of policy issues. Ahead of the Republican National Convention next week, Republicans who once criticized former President Donald Trump are on the presumptive Republican nominees' short-list for vice president. Over half of U.S. states now require high school students to receive a financial literacy course befo...
Jul 12, 2024•48 min•Ep. 39
The president of the United States has "absolute immunity" when acting in his core constitutional duties, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision Monday. Hawaii entered into a settlement in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that requires the state to implement climate change initiatives by court order, setting forth a potential template for lawsuits in other states. The U.S. Supreme Court last week pared back the federal government's regulatory power in a decision that made it clear that j...
Jul 05, 2024•48 min•Ep. 38
Two federal judges on Monday ruled to block part of President Joe Biden's recent attempt to indefinitely postpone or cancel nearly half a trillion dollars in student loan debt. The Jacksonville Jaguars became the second NFL team this week to get a large sum of public money for a stadium renovation when the City Council voted 14-1 to approve $775 million toward a $1.4 billion renovation of EverBank Stadium. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump grappled over inflation, illegal imm...
Jun 28, 2024•48 min•Ep. 37
President Joe Biden announced a new plan on Tuesday that will fast track a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals who’ve been living in the country illegally for more than 10 years and married a U.S. citizen. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed Senate Bill 313 into law on Wednesday, which will create the state's first universal education savings account program for K-12 education. Next week, President Biden and Former President Trump will face off on the debate stage. A...
Jun 21, 2024•48 min•Ep. 36
A Delaware jury convicted President Joe Biden's son of gun charges on Tuesday, marking the first-ever criminal conviction of a president's son. There is now a criminal investigation underway by Attorney General Kris Mayes’ office into a group home company’s donations to Gov. Katie Hobbs and the state Democratic Party. Former President Donald Trump panned the Biden administration's border security plan during a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday. A bill altering Pennsylvania's public school funding for...
Jun 14, 2024•48 min•Ep. 35
President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced what he dubbed a border security plan – five months ahead of the November election and after at least 11 million foreign nationals illegally entered the country since his inauguration. While demand for electricity is set to significantly increase by 2040, planning is not in place to increase electricity production to meet those estimates, according to a new report from Clean Energy Grid related to PJM Interconnection. Former President Donald Trump has kic...
Jun 07, 2024•48 min•Ep. 34
Former President Donald Trump lost in the courtroom Thursday, but Trump and his rival, President Joe Biden, are looking ahead to the November election. An amended education savings account bill has passed the Louisiana House of Representatives. The Texas state legislature now has enough votes to pass school choice initiatives after Tuesday's Republican primary runoff election , Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday night. In the dead of night, Illinois House Democrats approved the largest spending plan ...
May 31, 2024•48 min•Ep. 33
Lawmakers have threatened to revoke the appropriations for a federally-funded scholarship program that an audit found favors liberally leaning students over conservatives by a ratio of 10 to 1. The 'Zero Emission' electric fire engines being adopted in cities across the country have diesel engines to help pump water when the battery runs low, but this is rarely mentioned in news coverage or promotion materials. Donald Trump's defense team rested, wrapping up its side of the case after calling tw...
May 24, 2024•48 min•Ep. 32
Congress has spent more money on interest so far this year than it has spent on either national defense or Medicare. Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks will square off in November in a bid for the U.S. Senate, following decisive wins in their primary races. Jim Justice will be the Republican candidate for Senate in West Virginia while Patrick Morrisey won the Republican primary for governor as a shift approaches in the state’s political sphere...
May 17, 2024•48 min•Ep. 31
