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LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday to comply with a voter ID requirement mandated by state voters in November, taking passage of the bill down to the wire amid Republican infighting on whether the measure goes far enough to combat voter fraud.
Lawmakers are scheduled to take up final debate on ... | US Local Elections |
Suspect arrested for manslaughter in death of protester at California rally over Israel-Hamas war
Loay Alnaji is being charged in connection with the death of Paul Kessler.
A California man has been arrested in connection with the death of Paul Kessler at a rally in Thousand Oaks on Nov. 5, according to law enforcement... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
President Biden’s newly proposed budget for the 2024 fiscal year will lead to a "record" national debt, a watchdog has warned.
The Biden administration submitted the new proposal on Thursday, which outlines the president’s economic, education, climate, and healthcare goals across the next decade. But, the Committee for... | US Federal Policies |
- Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz said he intends to file a motion to vacate against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week.
- "By week's end he will either not be speaker or he will be speaker serving at the pleasure of Democrats," said Gaetz.
- McCarthy worked with Democrats to pass a short-term spending bill, narrowly av... | US Congress |
Trump Ally Mike Johnson Elected U.S. House Speaker, Shifting GOP Further Right
Republicans installed little-known Trump ally Mike Johnson as US House speaker, cementing the party’s rightward shift and ending a messy three-week succession fight that paralyzed legislative work.
(Bloomberg) -- Republicans installed little... | US Congress |
Joe Biden is “totally running” for a second term, the MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart has said, just days after interviewing the US president.The oldest president ever inaugurated, Biden will turn 80 on 20 November.He told Capehart: “I can’t even say the age I’m going to be. I can’t even get it out of my mouth. You think ... | US Federal Elections |
Donald Trump's ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows may have "gutted" the former president if reports he was granted immunity to testify in the federal election interference case are accurate, according to an attorney.
Neal Katyal, lawyer and former acting U.S. solicitor general, reacted to an ABC News report all... | US Political Corruption |
The remains of a Georgia woman killed 46 years ago were identified and confirmed as a victim ofknown as the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, authorities said Thursday.
Yvonne Pless was about 20 when Little killed her in 1977, according to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff's Office and the Criminal... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Column: Can’t convince Uncle MAGA he’s wrong? This Thanksgiving, let Trump’s ‘best people’ do the arguing
Last Thanksgiving, Donald Trump had just announced he was seeking reelection, yet his political stock was low. He was blamed for Republicans’ unexpectedly bad showing in the 2022 midterm elections. “Toxic Trump in ... | US Federal Elections |
Image source, Getty ImagesElon Musk has dissolved Twitter's board of directors - cementing his control over the company.The billionaire took over the social media company last week, ending months of back and forth over the $44bn deal.He has moved quickly to put his mark on the service, used by politicians and journalis... | US Political Corruption |
Some Republicans Worry that a Trump Nomination Could Bring Steep Down-Ballot Losses for the GOP
ATLANTA – Republicans have quietly been coming to grips with the likelihood that Donald Trump will keep winning the Republican nomination until he dies if he doesn’t retake the White House next year — and either outcome coul... | US Federal Elections |
The leaderless House was plunged deeper into chaos on Thursday after Republicans refused to coalesce around a speaker and a plan to empower an interim speaker collapsed.
Angry and exhausted, the House Republican conference left a pair of tense closed-door sessions no closer to breaking the impasse that has immobilized ... | US Congress |
For nearly two years, believers in Donald Trump’s false claims of widespread election fraud have been clamoring for an audit of elections in the Beehive State. Under a bill winding its way through the Utah Legislature, that may happen — just not entirely in the way they want.
The House Government Operations Committee u... | US Local Elections |
Donald Trump has dropped his heaviest hint yet that he will make another run for the White House telling a rally he will "very, very, very probably do it again".The former US president told a crowd in Iowa to "get ready" as he teased a comeback in 2024.
There is speculation Mr Trump could throw his hat into the ring in... | US Federal Elections |
The Biden administration is not backing down on its decision to end postponements of student debt payments in the immediate future.
The Supreme Court is expected to soon make a ruling on two cases seeking to block President Biden's proposed student loan forgiveness that would distribute up to $20,000 per borrower.
Educ... | SCOTUS |
Ambalika Williams is watching the first day of theon Biden's student-loan relief program with a feeling of hope, but also with a measure of anxiety. Williams has almost $10,000 in student loans, and the case will determine whether her entire debt could be erased in one swoop.
The arguments the justices are hearing Tues... | US Federal Policies |
Gingrich cited recent head-to-head polls showing Biden losing to former President Donald Trump, who is the GOP front-runner, while speaking on Fox News's The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday.
"And I think what you are seeing on the Left is a desperation that’s literally a survival function. We have never seen this —maybe the ... | US Federal Elections |
The first reported victim of the convicted sex offender found dead with six others — including two missing Oklahoma teens — said the “justice system failed them” when he was released from jail after serving a 17-year sentence for her rape.
Krystle Strong was raped by Jesse McFadden, 39, in 2003 when she was just 16 yea... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced on Monday that his legislation to force the federal government to disclose information it has on UFOs is in danger of getting shot down in Congress.
The fate of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure A... | US Federal Policies |
Live counters for House and Senate results This first live counter shows the make-up of the House of Representatives so far. The latest estimate from NBC News has the Republicans winning 219 House seats compared with the Democrats' 216, meaning they would still take control but with much less authority than the 40+ gai... | US Federal Elections |
Dan Cox, an extremist pro-Trump Republican, won his party’s nomination for governor in Maryland last week thanks to “collusion between Trump and the national Democrats”, the current Republican governor said.“I don’t think there’s any chance that [Cox] can win,” Larry Hogan added, speaking to CNN’s State of the Union.Ho... | US Political Corruption |
Congress sets precedent by expelling Rep. George Santos
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Rep. George Santos, a New York Republican who won election last fall on what was later revealed to be a largely fabricated biography, today became only the sixth member of the House of Representatives ever to be exp... | US Congress |
Like many reporters, I’ve been operating in Casaubon mode for much of the past eight years, searching for the key to Donald Trump’s mythologies. No single explanation of Trump is fully satisfactory, although Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer came closest when he observed that the cruelty is the point. Another person wh... | US Political Corruption |
Tiffany Campbell used to describe herself as a “hardcore, church-going Republican.” That changed back in 2006, when she was still running an in-home daycare in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and learned she was pregnant with twins. The prognosis was dire: one twin’s heart was pumping blood for both of them and, without int... | US Federal Elections |
Former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly is blasting his onetime boss over disparaging remarks he says the then-president repeatedly made about service members and veterans and for what he called Trump's untruthfulness about his positions on various groups as well as on abortion.
In a statement to CNN publish... | US Political Corruption |
Tuberville: White House would rather ‘burn the Senate down’ than negotiate on military holds
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Sunday the White House would rather “burn the Senate down” than negotiate on his blockade of more than 360 military promotions to protest the Pentagon’s new abortion policy.
“It’s typical of ... | US Congress |
Ron DeSantis: Real Man of Political Genius
“One of the most WTF leaks in memory.”
I had hoped today to write about anything except the Florida Governor’s flatulent, failing, fumbling campaign. That sad nag has been pummeled to death.
But you really can’t avert your eyes from this can you?
Let’s take a moment to conside... | US Political Corruption |
Former President Donald Trump’s decision to skip the first Republican presidential debate on Aug. 23, 2023 – and likely the others – may be a sign that candidate debates will be the next casualty of the highly polarized political environment in the United States.
“The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidenc... | US Federal Elections |
The FBI and a number of law enforcement agencies searched a Georgia property for the human remains of a teen, who disappeared in 2016, following a tip.
“The search warrant was obtained based on credible information and evidence gathered during the course of the investigation,” the Porterdale Police Department said in a... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
It might take a semester-long course to explain all of President Joe Biden's student loan plans.
Since the Supreme Court struck down its $400 billion student debt transfer, the Biden White House has been hard at work regrouping and attacking the issue on multiple fronts. So many, in fact, that it can be difficult even ... | US Federal Policies |
The Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing arguments in two cases challenging President Joe Biden's $400 billion student loan forgiveness program.
As supporters of the program protested outside, Chief Justice Roberts and other conservative members of the court zeroed in on the issue of executive authority and separatio... | SCOTUS |
DHS-funded nonprofit censoring election info also provides cybersecurity to election offices
The Center for Internet Security filed 16% of tickets to Election Integrity Partnership analysts during the 2020 election "to flag incidents or emerging narratives to be assessed" and ask for action from Big Tech, according to ... | US Federal Policies |
- A former U.S. Army sergeant was arrested in San Francisco for attempting to share classified military information with China.
- Joseph Daniel Schmidt has been charged with two federal felonies, the Department of Justice said.
- He is accused of initiating efforts to provide Chinese intelligence with U.S. defense info... | US Political Corruption |
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, is forcing a vote on a resolution of disapproval of the Biden administration’s "public charge" rule regarding immigrants and welfare — a resolution that the White House announced that President Biden would veto.
Marshall will take to the Senate floor on Wednesday afternoon to make a motio... | US Federal Policies |
A Florida man who raised thousands of dollars on a GoFundMe page following the death of his husband was arrested after police said he violently killed his spouse and then staged a fake crime scene.
Herbert Swilley, 55, was taken into custody Friday, months after his husband, Timothy Smith, was found dead in their Ocala... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, plans to file a motion Wednesday to elect Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., as the permanent temporary House speaker, empowering him to handle crucial business while lawmakers try to pick a new leader.
What You Need To Know
- Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, plans to file a motion Wednesday to elect Rep. P... | US Congress |
You’ve probably heard that California senator Dianne Feinstein, eighty-nine, has been too ill to show up to the Senate yet hasn’t resigned. As a result of her absence, the Senate on Thursday voted to overturn a critical Biden administration effort to control truck emissions. Feinstein has been in the hospital with shin... | US Congress |
Trump Lawyer Warned Him Keeping Classified Documents Was a Crime: Report
Jennifer Little told Jack Smith's investigators she'd explicitly warned Trump about his legal liability and he 'absolutely' understood the stakes of not complying, according to ABC News
A lawyer who works for Donald Trump informed the former presi... | US Political Corruption |
- Kenneth Chesebro asked a judge to bar evidence obtained in a search of his email account from the Georgia election case against him and former President President Donald Trump.
- Chesebro, a pro-Trump lawyer, argued that the search warrant used to obtain emails from his MSN account ahead of his criminal indictment "i... | US Political Corruption |
A day after Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that Donald Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, will testify in the civil trial centered on puffed-up financials within her family's business empire, Truth Social is yet again the sounding board for her father's grievances.
Ignoring continued warnings from judges to mind his ma... | US Political Corruption |
The Maine gunman's Army Reserve unit asked police to check on him weeks before he went on aat a bar and a bowling alley, according to an Army spokesperson. Robert Card and injured 13 others before he was Friday night of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
In September, the gunman's unit asked th... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Andrew Lester, the man charged with first-degree assault in the shooting of teenager Ralph Yarl, appeared in a Kansas City, Missouri, courtroom on Thursday afternoon.
A judge on Thursday set preliminary hearing dates for Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 2023 in Lester's case, according to ABC affiliate in Kansas City, KMBC.
The he... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Not too long ago former Vice President Mike Pence was calling the possibility of a second federal indictment against Donald Trump “extremely divisive,” claiming it would send “a terrible message” and warning that the Department of Justice should only move forward with it if the case met a “high threshold.” Now that the... | US Political Corruption |
A 15-year-old girl became a sexual violence victim when a man exposed himself during her Friday-morning jog.
The same happened to a pair of women in their late sixties at 8:30 a.m. on a Saturday.
Bruised and scratched after escaping a suspected rapist, a 40-year-old woman filed a police report and checked into the hosp... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Republicans worry key McCarthy spending promise is unraveling amid Speaker’s fight
Some House Republicans are concerned a key spending promise made by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) could be on the skids as a thorny GOP battle to elect his successor drags into its third week.
Republican fears are swirling tha... | US Congress |
Maryanne Trump Barry, a former judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit who was also the older sister of former president Donald Trump, has died.
Barry’s death at the age of 86 was reported by multiple outlets, indicating that she was found at her Manhattan home on Monday.
The former judge, who was first ... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
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The latest New York Times poll surveying battleground states was so bad for President Joe Biden that David Axelrod is openly questioning whether Biden should drop out of the race.
What does the poll show?
Biden, according to the New York Times, is t... | US Federal Elections |
Donald Trump is now under indictment in four different jurisdictions over three different controversies.
He faces 91 felony charges in New York, Atlanta, Miami and Washington, DC.
He’s charged with covering up hush money to a porn star, making off with classified documents after leaving office and committing a variety ... | US Federal Elections |
‘Travesty in darkness’: Trump backs drive to televise his D.C. election-subversion trial
Trump, who is facing four criminal prosecutions as well as several civil lawsuits, has been trying in recent weeks to leverage those proceedings to amplify his message to voters.
Donald Trump is endorsing an effort by news organiza... | US Federal Elections |
Arizona GOP continues eating its own in defense of Kari Lake and MAGA mania
Opinion: Arizona Republican Party activists continue eating their own with a censure of Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer for daring to sue Kari Lake. Democrats must be delighted.
The Arizona Republican Party continues its ambitious campa... | US Political Corruption |
The amount of student loans in default dropped by three percentage points from the third to fourth quarters of 2022, according to new data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
To put that into perspective: $34 billion in defaulted loans were marked current at the end of 2022, the Fed reports.
The change wasn't du... | US Federal Policies |
The leader of the Arizona Republican Party is telling members of the party’s executive committee that it may not be legally or logistically possible to hold a meeting this week to consider canceling the state-run presidential primary election.
And with a 5 p.m. Friday deadline to opt out, that may quash any hopes by th... | US Federal Elections |
Despite having several years to learn about their quarry, most of the media never really figured out how to cover Donald Trump. Some journalists got better at it, sure: It became obvious that you couldn’t breeze past a follow-up question or forgo a fact-check; by the end of his presidency many reporters had learned to ... | US Campaigns & Elections |
Feehery: Conflicts that will drive US politics this decade
Here are the top nine conflicts that will drive American politics for the rest of this decade and possibly beyond.
Globalization vs. nationalism / The election of Donald Trump ushered in the collapse of the Cold War consensus, the idea shared by Republicans and... | US Federal Elections |
House Republicans had a chaotic October — ousting Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, fighting bitterly about it for weeks, and then electing Mike Johnson to replace him, seemingly because no know knew him well enough to hate him. The GOP may have unanimously agreed to let a Christian nationalist election denier lead the caucus... | US Congress |
ALBANY — Jason T. Schofield, Rensselaer County's former Republican elections commissioner, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of voter fraud charges in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, admitting he fraudulently filed absentee ballots in 2021 using the personal information of at least eight voters without their permission. Af... | US Federal Elections |
- Political consequences for Democrats. A historic rise in delinquencies.
- Here's what experts predict will happen if the Supreme Court rules against Biden's student loan forgiveness plan and the relief never materializes.
It's possible that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down the Biden administration's student lo... | SCOTUS |
On May 26, 1990,was having breakfast with her son Joe Ahrens when he says a clown approached their front door carrying a basket of flowers and two balloons. Ahrens remembers his mother gleefully answering the door and accepting the apparent gifts, not expecting what she said at that moment — "how pretty" — would be her... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
GOP candidates are struggling to beat Trump. Here's some liberal advice that could help.
Wednesday's debate will feature five candidates who, frankly, should be embarrassed they’re not beating the snot out of a twice-impeached, one-term president facing 91 state and felony charges.
The former president and proud crimin... | US Federal Elections |
A group of Russian nationals were able to donate to newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson's campaign in 2018 by funneling the money through a U.S. company.
The Texas-based American Ethane company previously donated tens of thousands of dollars to the campaigns of Louisiana Republicans including Johnson, who was vote... | US Political Corruption |
Analysis of cyberstalking research identifies factors associated with perpetration, victimization
The widespread use of digital technologies and the Internet has spurred a new type of personal intrusion, known as cyberstalking. Incidences of cyberstalking have risen, with the U.S. Department of Justice estimating that ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Writing code to flip votes 'very easy to do' but 'hard to stop,' programmer warns Arizona Senate
"Don't use machines, because you can never, ever trust them to give you a fair election," Clinton Eugene Curtis said.
The Facts Inside Our Reporter’s Notebook
A computer programmer testified this week to an Arizona Senate c... | US Federal Elections |
Within the US constitutional system, the power to make laws is vested in Congress. This power includes the power to raise revenue through taxation and other means, to borrow money, and to engage in public spending. The president is then required to execute these fiscal laws as written.
There is a potential problem in t... | US Federal Policies |
Congress’s watchdog offers a test for Republicans
The House’s recent aversion of a government shutdown through a continuing resolution without any serious spending cuts is an unsurprising disappointment for fiscal conservatives looking to rein in our profligacy. But while it’s no surprise that the House avoided the usu... | US Federal Policies |
Johnson’s brewing SNAP crisis
The new speaker is a proponent of more hardline GOP efforts to overhaul the country’s largest anti-hunger program.
Mike Johnson‘s new role as House speaker heightens the chances of a major political clash next year over one of the nation’s largest welfare programs and the government’s pree... | US Federal Policies |
Donald Trump will at 9pm today make a “big announcement” – probably of another presidential campaign – at his Mar-a-Lago resort. If you’re a Republican, it will indeed be big.The former president is at the center of an array of investigations by local and federal authorities and just had a number of his handpicked cand... | US Federal Elections |
President Biden has scored a clear political win in his argument with Republicans about Social Security and Medicare. Some Republicans want to trim these safety-net programs for seniors, which are a large portion of federal spending and growing larger. Biden skewered those budget hawks during his February 8 State of th... | US Federal Policies |
The Beltway press' longing for a stern-but-loving Republican daddy, who will bring our naughty nation in line, has always had an erotic tinge to it. In a widely shared Atlantic piece, drawn from his upcoming biography of Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, McKay Coppins allowed the subtext to edge alarmingly close to the text. "... | US Political Corruption |
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, April 13, the Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 1933, a bill that would empower the secretary of state to seize election authority from county officials. The bill passed on a party line vote, with all Republicans voting in favor and all Democrats voting against. It now heads to the Republi... | US Federal Elections |
Bob Woodward’s recorded excerpts of his conversations with Donald Trump take listeners back to 2020, and make clear just how much of the White House’s fumbling response to Covid-19 came from the president himself.“I feel good. I think we’re doing a great job. I think we’ll never get credit from the fake news media no m... | US Federal Elections |
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The Texas House on Friday voted to strip school vouchers from the chamber’s massive education funding bill, effectively gutting Gov. Greg Abbott’s top priority from the legislation.
The House vot... | US Local Policies |
An anonymous reader shared this report from cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs: Domain names ending in ".US" — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. This is noteworthy because .US is overseen by the U.S. government, which is frequently the target... | US Federal Policies |
"The president and first lady will pay respects to the victims of this horrific attack and grieve with families and community members, as well as meet with first responders, nurses, and others on the front lines of the response," the White House said Wednesday.
White House spokeswoman Emilie Simons told reporters earli... | US Federal Policies |
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has made much of his crusade to lock up felons who unwittingly voted in 2020, but one registered Republican allegedly voted illegally for nearly a decade before the feds stepped in last week.
Yalemis Onasch, a 28-year-old Cuban national, cast fraudulent ballots in the past two presidential ele... | US Federal Elections |
Trump’s pileup of courtroom battles isn’t looming. It’s here.
Between court dates, depositions and gag orders, Donald Trump’s legal problems are defining how he campaigns.
Donald Trump was in a New York courtroom on Tuesday morning. Again.
But he had to duck out early for a deposition in a different legal matter. Again... | US Political Corruption |
The Supreme Court struck down President Biden‘s student debt forgiveness plan, which would have cancelled up to $20,000 in loan debt for eligible borrowers, on the final day of the term Friday. Biden shortly after said in a statement that “this fight is not over.”
In remarks Friday afternoon, Biden touted other policie... | SCOTUS |
Donald Trump's legal team has argued against an attempt to have him thrown off the presidential ballot in Colorado in 2024 by suggesting the wording of the U.S. Constitution's insurrection clause does not apply to him.
The Colorado Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal on a lawsuit filed by the Citizens for Responsibi... | US Federal Elections |
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- Donald Trump surrendered at an Atlanta jail tonight after being indicted in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' election interference probe.
- The former president's bond has been set at $200,000. It's the first time his release conditions in any of his indictments have included a cash bond.
- T... | US Political Corruption |
(Bloomberg) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged on Monday that SolarWinds Corp. defrauded investors by downplaying security risks ahead of a hack of its software that rippled through computer systems across the US government and corporate America.
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The SEC also accused the top info... | US Political Corruption |
WASHINGTON -- A Republican measure overturning President Joe Biden's student loan cancellation plan passed the Senate on Thursday and now awaits an expected veto.
The vote was 52-46, with support from Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana as well as Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an inde... | US Federal Policies |
January 23, 2023 10:53 AM Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen poured cold water on the idea of minting a trillion-dollar platinum coin to bypass the country’s debt limit. The United States hit its statutory debt limit on Thursday, and the Treasury began taking “extraordinary measures” to prevent the government from default... | US Federal Policies |
Elitist student loan bailout turns blind eye to struggling Americans
Last Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two challenges to the Biden administration’s student debt cancellation plan, which would forgive federal student loans for 40 million Americans at a cost of $430 billion. The Court is consid... | SCOTUS |
When Treasury could start missing payments on social security, vet benefits and more
The country technically doesn’t miss interest payments until mid-June. But once it runs out of borrowing power, the government will likely miss checks for critical items like Social Security, veterans benefits, federal salaries and mor... | US Federal Policies |
Secret Service officer fired weapon in Georgetown amid vehicle break-in
A Secret Service agent fired a weapon in Georgetown after three individuals were seen breaking into a government vehicle late Sunday night, according to the agency.
Secret Service agents approached three individuals breaking a window on a parked an... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Americans were bombarded with political text messages in the months leading up to the midterm elections last year, even more than they were during the 2020 presidential race, something experts attribute to a Supreme Court decision that eliminated the requirement to obtain consent when sending mass texts.More than 15 bi... | US Federal Elections |
Americans are getting a crash course on the country’s borrowing limit, as a high-stakes standoff on Capitol Hill dominates national attention.
Last month, the Treasury Department announced it’s implementing “extraordinary measures” to keep the nation from defaulting on its debt, after it hit the roughly $31.4 trillion ... | US Federal Policies |
“Trump’s actions in the hours following the hearing … confirm his overriding interest in delaying both trials at any cost,” Department of Justice prosecutors wrote in a filing to Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida federal court. “This Court should [not] allow itself to be manipulated in this fashion.”
Prosecutors were refe... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company’s recent data breach.
In a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published Friday, the company said that, based on its investigation into the incident, it had determined that ha... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
In the aggregate, the adjustments raise rates for borrowers with credit scores of 680 or above while lowering them for those with lower credit scores and lower down payments. In voting to scrap the rule, which went into effect May 1, House Republicans described the policy as another example of equity and socialism run ... | US Federal Policies |
The former attorney general of Arizona, Mark Brnovich, failed to release documents that showed his office’s investigation into the 2020 election did not find evidence of widespread fraud in the state’s most populous county.
The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Brnovich would not turn over public records that ... | US Political Corruption |
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- The discovery of four dead women in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City was shocking news in 2006.
International media flocked to the seaside gambling resort. More than 100 detectives and prosecutors were assigned to investigate. Casino guests worried about safety, and the victims’ fellow... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
After the Fulton County, Georgia grand jury recommended that Sen Lindsey Graham and two former senators be charged alongside former president Donald Trump, the South Carolina Republican defended himself.
“At the end of the day, nothing happened,” Mr Graham said in the wake of the recommendations. “What I did was consis... | US Political Corruption |
Visibly worn-down House Republicans left a closed-door meeting on Monday night intent on forging ahead with a vote for speaker on Tuesday despite lingering opposition to Speaker-designate Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
"If Jim Jordan can't get through, Jesus can't. So we better figure this out," Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., told Fox... | US Congress |
She played an excerpt from Biden’s White House speech during Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Ingraham Angle.”
“This is a moment for the United States to come together, to grieve with those who are mourning,” Biden said in the clip. “Let’s be real clear: There is no place for hate in America.”
Ingraham’s take?
“If he’s real... | US Involvement in Foreign Conflicts |
A heavy-handed effort to convince fellow Republicans to support Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) bid for Speaker of the House did not have the effect its architects intended, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) said Tuesday on Fox News, adding that he had spoken with colleagues who felt that the pressure campaign—from the likes of Fox h... | US Congress |
The House of Representatives is finally expected to vote on a new speaker on Tuesday at noon after the chamber ousted its previous leader in a historic majority vote earlier this month.
Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was chosen as Republicans’ candidate for speaker last week after a tumultuous few days in which... | US Congress |
Georgia state troopers who shot and killed an environmental activist at the site of awill not be charged, a prosecutor announced Friday, saying he found that their use of deadly force was "objectively reasonable."
Opponents of the center, whohad camped out at an 85-acre tract of forest that is being developed for the m... | US Police Misconduct |
On July 8, 2015, the badly injured body of 19-year-old Stephen Smith was found dead in the middle of a rural road in South Carolina, just 24 kilometres from the home of the now-infamous Murdaugh family.
The death of the openly gay nursing student was initially ruled a hit and run — but his family, and others, had doubt... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) predicted that former President Donald Trump could win back the White House in 2024 over President Joe Biden if he sticks to an optimistic message for his campaign.
While speaking at the DealBook Summit, McCarthy said that Trump would lose to Biden in a matchup between the two... | US Federal Elections |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Josh Shapiro isn’t yet worried about President Joe Biden’s standing.
Rather, the governor of Pennsylvania attributes Biden’s recent polling slide behind former President Donald Trump to voter “brain fog” that he thinks will clear once the general election cycle kicks into gear.
“I’m not sure folks rem... | US Federal Elections |
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