Several California politicians are urging Taylor Swift not to perform concerts in Los Angeles as a way to stand in solidarity with striking hotel workers. Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and dozens of state and local politicians signed an open letter urging Swift to postpone her concerts in the city, saying the region’s hotels stand to make tremendous profit from her tour. Some properties are “doubling and tripling what they charge because you are coming,” they wrote.

Recreational cannabis has been legalized in more than 20 states and Washington, D.C., and there is now a bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill to change a law that limits federal hiring by automatically disqualifying candidates who admit to having used cannabis. The proposed bill introduced by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., has already received bipartisan support, with Raskin and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., sponsoring the Cannabis Users Restoration of Eligibility Act.

Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was not “smart enough to be president” after the Republican criticized a new Illinois state law allowing non-citizens to serve as police officers. “This man isn’t smart enough to be president,” Pritzker said Tuesday of DeSantis, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.

Former Vice President Mike Pence didn’t parse words when reacting to former President Donald Trump’s indictment by Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday. In a statement released following Trump’s indictment on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S.

The federal judge in Washington, D.C. assigned to preside over the prosecution of former President Donald Trump for charges related to the Capitol riot is notorious for issuing tougher sentences to other Jan. 6 defendants than what the Justice Department requested, and put every one of them behind bars. U.S.