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AbstractIn this article, we study the local political mobilization effects of political protests in the context of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. We analyze monthly voter registration data from 2136 US counties across 32 states, leveraging variation in the exposure to BLM protests across counties in a two-way f... | Civil Rights Activism |
FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is proposing a legal route to overturn the Pentagon’s abortion policy as Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville continues his blockade on hundreds of military promotions.
Graham tapped conservative attorney Jay Sekulow for legal advice. Sekulow is "confident" a lawsuit could be brought... | US Federal Policies |
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) accused Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) of openly detailing his sexual experiences to fellow lawmakers in a bonkers interview with CNN on Wednesday. (You can check out his comments in the clip below.)
Mullin, an ally of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), made the wild claims about ... | US Congress |
The 26-year-old turned herself into local authorities and was charged with false reporting to law enforcement authorities and falsely reporting an incident in connection to the kidnapping hoax on July 28, according to the Hoover Police Department in Alabama. She was booked and subsequently released from custody after p... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
A county clerk in New Mexico abused the power of her office and broke the law in the run-up to the 2022 elections, a state agency alleged in court this week, claiming that the official deleted and mishandled midterm ballots; sought, obtained and discussed drugs; and even deployed a Taser near a coworker.
The complaint ... | US Local Elections |
Sen. John Fetterman is being kept overnight in a Washington, DC, hospital “for observation,” after being admitted earlier Wednesday after feeling lightheaded, his office said in a statement.
The Pennsylvania Democrat was elected to the Senate in November while recovering from a stroke he had suffered in May. According ... | US Congress |
A murder suspect who was accidentally released from an Indiana jail due to a clerical error has been apprehended following a two-week manhunt, authorities said.
Kevin Mason, 28, was initially arrested on Sept. 11 in connection with a 2021 murder in Minneapolis. He was mistakenly released from the Adult Detention Center... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Democratic strategists are urging a “don’t panic” response to a series of opinion polls that reveal deep worries over Joe Biden’s age and his ability to beat Donald Trump in the 2024 US presidential election.
A CNN survey conducted by SSRS caused shockwaves this week when it put Biden’s approval rating at just 39% and ... | US Federal Elections |
The following is a transcript of an interview with House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio, that aired on "Face the Nation" on Oct. 15, 2023.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Turner, who joins us from Dayton. Good morning to you.
REP. ... | US Congress |
The seizure happened Monday night. The FBI approached the mayor on the street, asked his security to step aside and confiscated two iPhones and an iPad. They were returned a few days later.
Adams' campaign attorney Boyd Johnson issued the following statement, which appears to raise questions about someone else close to... | US Political Corruption |
The Democratic National Committee’s Executive Committee voted Saturday to refer a complaint about the Alabama Democratic Party’s abolition of diversity caucuses to its Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC).
The State Democratic Executive Committee voted on May 6 to eliminate caucuses for youth, LGBTQ+ individuals and people... | US Political Corruption |
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is siding with members of the GOP who voted to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Ramaswamy, who has never held elected office, said he understood McCarthy's critics and supported the desire to inject "chaos" into the legislature.
"The point of removing the House Speake... | US Congress |
FILE – The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 14, 2022. The Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday, Oct. 3. The Supreme Court is taking up an Alabama redistricting case that could have far-reaching effects on minority voting power across the United States. The justices are hearing arguments T... | SCOTUS |
Zelle recently made a huge change to its policy that would give victims of certain scams the chance to get their money back. The payment processor has confirmed to Engadget that it started reimbursing customers for impostor scams, such as those perpetrated by bad actors pretending to be banks, businesses and government... | US Federal Policies |
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are set to hold their first hearing next week in the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Joe Biden. But with a very slim majority in the lower chamber of the U.S. Congress, it appears unlikely Republicans will be able to pass the articles of impeachment needed to tri... | US Political Corruption |
Biden’s double whammy: Impeachment inquiry, son’s legal woes
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Under routine circumstances, the American presidency is a pressure cooker of a job. Now, for President Joe Biden, there’s the added weight of a congressional impeachment inquiry and his son Hunter’s criminal in... | US Political Corruption |
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon's hopes of appealing his contempt of Congress conviction have been dealt a major blow after a judge questioned the top Donald Trump ally's key line of defense.
Bannon's legal team argued before a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia... | US Federal Elections |
House Republicans are once again scrambling with no clear path to elect a new speaker after voting to push Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan out of the race, the latest sign of the chaos and divisions that have engulfed the majority party and left the chamber in a state of paralysis.
In a dramatic turn of events, the House GOP conf... | US Congress |
Robert Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign began by forcing the political Left and their media to confront harsh realities about their own policies on vaccines and support for foreign wars when it came to where their own constituents were at. Vehemently anti-war and anti-vax, RFK Jr. gave skeptical Democrats an outlet ... | US Federal Elections |
As tensions and divisions within the GOP plunged Capitol Hill into chaos on Tuesday, Republicans were mocked for their less-than-upstanding behavior on social media, with users dismissing lawmakers as "toddlers."
In a series of separate incidents on Tuesday, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who represents Californi... | US Congress |
Even on a normal day, advancing ethics in government and holding powerful officials to account is no easy task. Add a government shutdown to the mix and things will get a whole lot harder.
Congress has until midnight on November 17th to pass a bill to fund the government and after weeks without a Speaker of the House, ... | US Federal Policies |
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to endorse Donald Trump's presidential bid on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Sanders will make her announcement at Trump's rally near Miami. Trump is skipping the debate that night — which is being hosted by NBC News — and holding a counterprogramm... | US Federal Elections |
“Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden’s weaponized Government that refuses to close the Border, and treats half the Country as Enemies of the State,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social media platform late Wednesday. “This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecution... | US Federal Policies |
Even as his bid to become the Republican presidential nominee circles the drain, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis can take pride in the fact that he is almost keeping pace with his chief rival in having embarrassing Nazi scandals. Earlier this week, in response to continuing lackluster polling, DeSantis fired 38 staffers.... | US Political Corruption |
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WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday urged a U.S. judge to reconsider a partial gag order she imposed on Donald Trump in the case accusing him of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat, arguing it violates his free speech rights.
"Trump retains a First Amendmen... | US Federal Policies |
In 2019, a manipulated video spread through social media platforms showing Joe Biden on stage telling an audience that he “shouldn’t be president”. Biden’s voice had been slowed down, giving the impression he was slurring his words, while footage from a real speech he gave at an Iowa university was edited to cut out co... | US Federal Elections |
The most important selection of text from Tuesday’s indictment against former President Donald Trump isn’t the list of charges against him. It’s not the detailed description of how he and his co-conspirators pressured state lawmakers to overturn the results and compiled lists of fake electors to substitute for lawful o... | US Political Corruption |
The Biden-Harris campaign's communications director argued that "a brick wall of MAGA extremism" has contributed to Americans struggling financially and working multiple jobs to make ends meet.
"That's precisely why we need another four years to continue to finish the job, right? I think it's important, too, that the p... | US Federal Elections |
Donald Trump has released a charity single, recorded with a choir of men held in a Washington DC prison for their parts in the deadly January 6 insurrection he incited.
On Friday, Justice for All by Donald J Trump and the J6 Prison Choir was available on streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube.
T... | US Political Corruption |
A faux-rap song that features the AI-generated voice of Donald Trump defending himself against the criminal indictment out of Georgia has jumped to the No. 2 spot on the iTunes rap chart.
Hi-Rez the Rapper, who describes himself as a radical freedom extremist, released the song on August 25, one day after Trump posted... | US Political Corruption |
- Kevin McCarthy on Saturday forcefully defended House passage of a 45-day stopgap spending bill.
- The bill, if passed by the Senate, will fund the government through November and avert a shutdown.
- McCarthy dared his detractors to force a "motion to vacate" — a vote that could end his speakership.
A defiant Kevin Mc... | US Congress |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The countdown toward a possible U.S. government default began Thursday with Treasury implementing accounting measures to buy time as frictions between President Joe Biden and House Republicans raise alarms about whether the United States can sidestep a potential economic crisis.The Treasury Department... | US Federal Policies |
Sanders calls on Biden to use 14th Amendment to raise debt ceiling
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday called for President Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment in order to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a default on the nation’s credit as White House and House GOP negotiators race to strike a deal.
In an Fox News... | US Federal Policies |
Although it's been more than a decade since the end of the Great Recession, the world still hasn't let down its guard. Now some believe the rising student loan burden could bring down the economy in much the same way as the 2008 and 2009 mortgage crises, but is that true?
Years after a payment pause of federal student ... | US Federal Policies |
But that doesn’t mean the former president and his allies are skipping out on furiously working to make the first GOP presidential debate a Trump victory.
Behind the scenes, Trump’s campaign is putting their confidence in a team of surrogates traveling to the debate site to spin on his behalf.
Above all, they may be be... | US Campaigns & Elections |
WIRED broke the news on Wednesday that SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is acquiring some assets—including patents, customers, and employees—from the firm Geolitica, which developed the notorious predictive policing software PredPol. WIRED also exclusively reported this week t... | US Federal Policies |
“The office of speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant.”
With those words, uttered in the well of the House on Tuesday afternoon, Kevin McCarthy’s reign as speaker came to an inglorious end. McCarthy is the first speaker in history to be removed by his own party; eig... | US Congress |
Biden Wants to ‘Finish The Job’ on Guns, Abortion Rights and Climate in a Second Term
But if Congress is still divided after the 2024 election, Biden may have to go it alone with executive action
Joe Biden has checked several major items off his legislative to-do list as president -- and now he's telling voters he plan... | US Federal Policies |
A federal judge has made it a lot more difficult for Donald Trump to blame his lawyers for his election-interference case, a former prosecutor has said.
Harry Litman is a law professor at the University of California and a former federal prosecutor. He said that the decision by Judge Tanya Chutkan will probably prevent... | US Political Corruption |
Student loan repayments hit a glitch for 305,000 borrowers: Payment amounts are wrong
Many warned early on that student loan borrowers could run into a few hiccups as a massive reboot of monthly payments kicked off in October.
And those experts did not disappoint.
About 305,000 student loan borrowers ran into an issue ... | US Federal Policies |
U.S. Department of Education Announces $42 Billion in Approved Public Service Loan Forgiveness for More Than 615,000 Borrowers Since October 2021
U.S. Department of Education Announces $42 Billion in Approved Public Service Loan Forgiveness for More Than 615,000 Borrowers Since October 2021
To mark Public Service Recog... | US Federal Policies |
Washington state registered 'many' foreign nationals to vote, emails show
The Washington Secretary of State’s Office says state law doesn’t allow it to verify citizenship receiving a voter’s registration.
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Rep. Jim Jordan has seen even more Republicans vote against him in the third round of voting for the House speaker's gavel.
25 Republicans voted against Jordan, giving him just 194 votes -- far short of the approximately 217 he would need to win the speaker's race. It's his lowest total so far in the t... | US Congress |
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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is one of three House GOP committee chairs pressing to impeach President Biden.
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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is one of three House GOP committee chairs pressing to impeach President Bi... | US Political Corruption |
When will you have to start paying your student loans again? Education Department explains
(NEXSTAR) – While federal student loan borrowers are still in a bit of limbo as the Supreme Court continues mulling President Joe Biden’s debt relief plan, the Department of Education has offered a bit of clarification regarding ... | US Federal Policies |
Our commentary comes from journalist Mark Chiusano, author of "The Fabulist," the saga of disgraced New York Congressman George Santos:
2023 was a season of chaos in the House of Representatives, a cartoon of what a legislative body is supposed to be. Through it all, we've had a mascot for the messiness, and his name i... | US Congress |
- The Senate voted to confirm Democrat Anna Gomez to the Federal Communications Commission, breaking the deadlock at the agency that has lasted the entirety of the Biden presidency.
- Gomez's confirmation comes after a protracted battle to confirm Biden's initial pick for the commissioner seat, Gigi Sohn, ended with he... | US Federal Policies |
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin received backlash from his Republican counterparts for using hardline tactics to stop them speaking about two judicial nominees ahead of roll call votes.
During a Thursday meeting on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Durbin chairs, the Democrat repeatedly prevented GOP senators from deb... | US Congress |
Jessica Burgess, a Nebraska mother accused of helping her teenage daughter use pills to end her pregnancy, was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison.
Burgess and her daughter, Celeste Burgess, stand accused of working together to end Celeste Burgess’s pregnancy in April 2022.
According to prosecutors, after the pa... | US Federal Policies |
Warren, Garamendi Renew Call for TransDigm to End Price Gouging, Provide Pricing and Cost Transparency to Defense Department
New Transdigm Information Shows Company is “Taking Advantage of Loopholes in Federal Contracting Law” to Drive Up Prices for Taxpayers while Earning Exorbitant Profits Price Gouging Creates Natio... | US Federal Policies |
MERRIMACK, N.H. — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will be visiting Israel on Sunday, making him the first Republican presidential candidate to travel to the country since the outbreak of the war.
During a town hall in Merrimack, New Hampshire, on Thursday, Christie said he plans to talk to families of the people ... | US Political Corruption |
A federal judge signed off on a settlement giving 200,000 student-loan borrowers $6 billion in debt relief last year.
In January, three companies requested a stay on the relief, citing reputational harm the settlement brought them.
Borrowers in the case recently filed a motion opposing the stay due to the harm postponi... | US Federal Policies |
How did Miami's honcho clear the donation obstacle despite polling around 0.2 percent nationally?
Well, thanks to some unusual fundraising tactics — driven largely by luring donors with various goodies — Suarez was able slide past the threshold, notwithstanding his campaign trail gaffes. (Remember the "weebles"?)
After... | US Federal Elections |
WASHINGTON — After three weeks of chaos and paralysis over the speaker fight, House Republicans say there’s no appetite in their conference for lurching into another crisis: a government shutdown.
But with the deadline just nine days away, Congress still hasn’t come up with a plan to keep the lights on in Washington. T... | US Congress |
- Sens. Warren and Sanders joined 6 of their colleagues in calling for a strengthened gainful employment rule.
- The rule would cut off federal aid to schools that offer programs that leave students with more debt than their degree can pay off.
- Trump repealed the rule, and Biden has since delayed its timeline to rein... | US Federal Policies |
Joe Biden is having a rough summer. The US supreme court has overturned Roe v Wade, ending federal protections for abortion access. Although gas prices are now falling, they remain high and have driven inflation to its largest annual increase in more than 40 years. West Virginia senator Joe Manchin has finally ended an... | US Federal Elections |
Johnson leans into conservative demands with two-tiered plan to avert shutdown
It already seems unlikely the spending plan could pass the House, with the new speaker saying they would need Democrats to support it.
Speaker Mike Johnson is leaning into the demands of his right flank, planning to head off a Friday governm... | US Congress |
MADISON, Wis. -- There should be no effort to impeach a liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice based on what is known now, a former justice advised the Republican legislative leader who asked him to review the issue.
Some Republicans had raised the prospect of impeaching newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she... | SCOTUS |
As early as George Washington’s presidency, Americans have wanted not only to be vocal, but also visual about their support for different political movements. Emblazoned with faces, slogans, and poignant artwork, political buttons have been a steadfast touchpoint for our national discourse.The popularity of pins as a c... | US Campaigns & Elections |
Key events:29m agoDemocrats bargain over climate with a familiar obstacle: Joe ManchinShow key events onlyWhen they were negotiating Build Back Better last year, president Joe Biden and Democratic leaders made proposals, and then tried to get all their lawmakers in Congress on board. The effort ended up failing, and no... | US Federal Policies |
Why do seemingly serious people repeat crazy political lies? This was the question the American anthropologist and political scientist Lisa Wedeen explored when she studied the Syrian dictatorship in the 1990s.
She was struck by how people who were usually rational in private would repeat the utterly absurd slogans of ... | US Congress |
Donald Trump’s new indictment by a grand jury in Washington, D.C., for crimes related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, counts as another blow to his reputation.
He might be convicted. But even if he’s not, a set of deeper issues has clearly emerged already: Many leaders and politician... | US Political Corruption |
I’m as amused as the next person by the antics of George Santos, though it’s nice to see that when the House returns from its Thanksgiving break, his colleagues will vote to toss him out. Don’t confuse his possible ouster as an act of bravery on the part of Republicans—Santos is a severe liability in a key swing distri... | US Congress |
Earlier today, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that Republicans will move forward with an official impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, despite the embarrassing fact that, as House Freedom Caucus member Ken Buck told MSNBC on Sunday, they haven’t uncovered a single piece of evidence “linking President Biden to a ... | US Political Corruption |
U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan warned Donald Trump in August that she would not tolerate any actions that could be perceived as witness intimidation by the former president in his 2020 election meddling case. She’s now considering a motion for a partial gag-order on Trump’s public statements.
According to a Frida... | US Political Corruption |
Secret Service opens fire on people attempting to break into car outside Naomi Biden's home: Sources
Naomi Biden, 29, is the president's granddaughter.
The Metropolitan Police Department and Secret Service are investigating an agent-involved shooting after possibly three individuals attempted to break into a government... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Michigan to join state-level effort to regulate AI political ads as federal legislation pends
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign legislation in the coming days aimed at curbing deceptive uses of artificial intelligence and manipulated media
LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan is joining an effort to curb decepti... | US Local Policies |
Trump and his allies and acolytes are publicly planning to make him America’s first de facto dictator, which will mean the end of the country’s democracy. Their plans are detailed in such documents and organizations as Agenda 47, Project 2025, and the Red Caesar scenario.
Journalists, pundits, the mainstream political ... | US Federal Elections |
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina Republicans closed in Tuesday on enacting new boundaries for the state’s congressional and legislative districts that aim to fortify GOP prospects both in the narrowly divided Congress and in the state General Assembly, where conservatives hope to solidify control there for the rest of t... | US Federal Elections |
Not until President Biden and our nation’s parents can agree on what’s really driving up the cost of college will be impossible to solve the tuition crisis millions of American families are confronting. The President appears to believe it is the nefarious for-profit colleges that are robbing students of their education... | US Federal Policies |
And the loser is … Donald J Trump. The identity of the winners of America’s midterm elections was not clear the morning after the night before – even at lunchtime on Wednesday the TV anchors could not tell their audiences whether Democrats or Republicans would be in control of the House of Representatives or Senate – b... | US Federal Elections |
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office said Thursday that she is suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a complication from the shingles virus that can paralyze part of the face, and that she contracted encephalitis while recovering from the virus earlier this year.
Feinstein, 89, had not previously disc... | US Congress |
Department of Education Building. A former Department of Education official is concerned that a new regulatory agenda released by the Biden administration could have adverse effects on religious colleges and universities that participate in the federal student loan program. The Biden administration announced last week ... | US Federal Policies |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A federal grand jury has indicted a New Mexico man on assault and carjacking charges in connection with the 2021 disappearance of a Native American woman whose case has helped to raise awareness about missing people and unsolved slayings in Indian Country.
The indictment naming Preston Henry Tolth,... | US Federal Policies |
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, won’t face another round of voting for speaker today. He was expected to lose additional votes.
So Jordan is now getting behind an interim plan to empower House Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., as acting speaker on a temporary basis. Jordan would remain... | US Congress |
The Republican chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees outlined their view of the factual and legal basis for an impeachment inquiry into President Biden in a 30-page memo, which was obtained by CBS News. It was sent to all committee members late Wednesday.
According to the memo, the co... | US Political Corruption |
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the US Senate, upset Jared Kushner’s mother by telling her friends her son would go to jail over his ties to Russia, Kushner said on Wednesday.
“My poor mom, I told her to stop, you know, reading whatever. I said, ‘I promise you, we didn’t do anything wrong, it’s good,’” Kushner ... | US Congress |
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. -- Federal and state law enforcement agencies are investigating a shooting near the Mississippi home of U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, state investigators announced Monday.
No one was injured in the shooting Sunday afternoon near Hyde-Smith’s Lincoln County home in south Mississippi, investigators said i... | US Political Corruption |
Anyone who lived through Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election—a scheme that was capped off by an insurrection that left multiple people dead—knows there is nothing funny about the crimes that the ex-president was indicted on last week. They are, in fact, deeply serious and, as a result, could lead to Tr... | US Political Corruption |
The GOP Debate Was a Sorry Spectacle
When Ron DeSantis is trying to keep things dignified, you know the show has gone off the rails.
Let’s start at the end instead of the beginning.
After two hours of screaming, two hours of puerility, two hours of talking over each other and coming up with one canned line after the ot... | US Federal Elections |
Cops use all sorts of tech to track individuals — facial recognition comes to mind, as does mimicking cell phone towers to get pings or mobile data tracking. But some people are finding ways to use technology to listen back. Bluetooth signals might reveal where police are and when they are and when devices like body ca... | US Police Misconduct |
Ahead of 2024, we must protect election workers nationwide. Our democracy depends on it.
Every week, we continue to see news about the 2020 election and the shocking, seditious efforts to tear down our democracy that followed. Federal and state criminal indictments for conspiracies to overturn the election. Sentencing ... | US Federal Elections |
DAVIS, Calif. -- Northern California prosecutors on Friday charged a 21-year-old former university student with two counts of murder and one of attempted murder in connection with a series of stabbings in the college community of Davis.
Carlos Dominguez is scheduled to be arraigned Friday afternoon in the Superior Cour... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
New York City police said they are conducting an “internal review” following the spread of a video on social media that appears to show an officer using a homophobic slur on a police car announcement system.
A video shared on Instagram last week, which had more than 2 million views Thursday, appears to show an officer ... | US Police Misconduct |
A new battery of battleground state polls from New York Times-Siena College reinforces what has been evident for a while now: A year out from the 2024 elections, Joe Biden is in real danger of losing the presidency to Donald Trump. He trails the 45th president in five of the six states that are almost certain to decide... | US Federal Elections |
- House Republicans just narrowly nominated Rep. Steve Scalise to be their candidate for speaker.
- But Marjorie Taylor Greene is withholding her support, citing his cancer diagnosis.
- She says he shouldn't "sacrifice his health" and needs to put his "full efforts" into the job.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is vowing t... | US Congress |
Appeals court temporarily lifts Trump gag order in D.C. case
The appeals court’s action makes it likely that the gag order will be sidelined for more than two weeks and perhaps longer.
A federal appeals court on Friday lifted a gag order reining in Donald Trump’s comments about the criminal election-subversion case pen... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
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- The Supreme Court's decision on student loan forgiveness will be especially meaningful for borrowers who started college but never finished.
- For them, managing education loans without the benefit of having higher earning potential is especially difficult.
Increasingly, borrowers are struggling under the weight of a... | SCOTUS |
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a short-term spending measure Friday, increasing the chances of a government shutdown when funding runs out on October 1.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Friday that passing a short-term funding deal was critical to maintaining security at the U.S.- Mexi... | US Congress |
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The criminal indictment of ex-President Donald Trump for his alleged attempts to subvert democracy and incite the Jan. 6, 2021, melee in Washington has been a long time coming. Now that it’s her... | US Political Corruption |
THETFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - An investigation is underway after 289 absentee ballots from the 2020 election were found in Thetford Township.
The ballots were found inside a storage unit at Storage One in Clio last August.
"My biggest concern is why were they in a storage unit?" Township Supervisor Rachel Stanke sa... | US Local Elections |
Democrats in Wisconsin, as well as many political observers in the state, are decrying a plan by Republicans to create a purportedly nonpartisan redistricting process that on its face sounds good, but upon further examination doesn’t actually change the likelihood that political maps will continue to be gerrymandered.
... | US Local Policies |
Trump’s Georgia trial should be kicked to 2029 if he wins the election, his lawyer says
Georgia prosecutors contended that holding the trial next summer wouldn’t hinder Trump’s campaign “in any way.”
If Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, he can’t face a criminal trial in Georgia until at least 2029 — after he leaves ... | US Political Corruption |
Biden will deliver a rare primetime address on threats to American democracyGood evening, and welcome to the Guardian’s US politics liveblog, primetime edition.We’ll be bringing you live updates and analysis tonight, as Joe Biden addresses the country. The president is expected to speak about threats to American democr... | US Federal Elections |
New York University law professor Stephen Gillers told Newsweek that the Supreme Court would likely delay Trump's Georgia trial, in which he is accused of illegal interference in the 2020 presidential election, until he was out of office.
Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis said on Tuesday that she anticipated the tr... | US Political Corruption |
NEW YORK - New York lawmakers are making it clear they want Rep. George Santos to immediately resign.
Their reactions came after the, which found there was "substantial evidence" of wrongdoing by him.
Santos responded to the report on social media, . Santos blasted the report as "a disgusting politicized smear that sho... | US Congress |
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Stickers reading "I Voted By Mail" are displayed as the Wayne County Board of Elections prepares absentee ballots in Goldsboro, N.C., on Sept. 22, 2022. A Republican-backed bill would eliminate a grace period for mail ballots to arrive.
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Stickers reading "I Voted ... | US Federal Elections |
Washington CNN — Big headaches for student loan borrowers could be on the horizon. Their monthly payments could restart as early as this summer after a three-year pause. And the federal office that oversees the student loan system is operating under the same budget as last year – which could complicate any efforts to... | US Federal Policies |
Donald Trump refused to take down a post attacking the law clerk of the judge overseeing his bank fraud trial in New York—blatantly violating the court’s gag order—and lawyers on both sides have just been notified that hell is nigh.
The New York Attorney General’s Office and the former president’s defense lawyers were ... | US Political Corruption |
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