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Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones
Eric Meyer, publisher of the Marion County Record, answers questions in his newspaper office Friday after police seized computers, servers, cellphones and other items. He says he doesn’t know how they wil... | US Police Misconduct |
It’s been just a clutch of days since former President Donald Trump and his allies made clear that if he wins reelection, he plans to gut the existing U.S. government and “install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists” to take over senior legal, judicial, defense, regulatory, and domestic policy jobs i... | US Federal Elections |
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden insisted Friday that “this fight is not over” after the Supreme Court struck down his $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan. Biden blamed Republicans' opposition, aiming to direct the ire of millions of borrowers toward them rather than his own party in next year's elections.
The ... | SCOTUS |
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has been accused of showing "contempt for democracy," after claiming the Trump supporters who stormed Congress on January 6, 2021, would have "won" if they'd been organized by her and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon.The Georgia Republican made the incendiary comments, which she l... | US Political Corruption |
House conservatives give Speaker Johnson a ‘mulligan’ in funding fight — for now
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is getting a free pass from hard-line Republicans who are upset with his approach on keeping the government open with a “clean” funding extension, but are holding him to a different standard than former Speaker... | US Congress |
Security researchers say hackers are mass-exploiting a critical-rated vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler systems to launch crippling cyberattacks against big-name organizations worldwide.
These cyberattacks have so far included aerospace giant Boeing; the world’s biggest bank, ICBC; one of the world’s largest port opera... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Gaetz is urging McCarthy to take a tougher line over a number of issues, including impeachment efforts against President Biden, balancing the budget and issuing subpoenas for Hunter Biden, the president's son.
On Tuesday morning, McCarthy announced a full impeachment inquiry into Biden and any connections with his son'... | US Congress |
GLASTONBURY, Conn. -- A former Connecticut police officer is suspected of being a serial burglar and committing 30 or more thefts in three states, including the community he had patrolled until recently.
A newly unsealed warrant says former Glastonbury Police Officer Patrick Hemingway is believed to have targeted safes... | US Police Misconduct |
Politics|Trump Rally Plays Music Resembling QAnon Song, and Crowds Reacthttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/us/politics/trump-rally-qanon-music.htmlIn Ohio, a dark address by the former president featured music that was all but identical to a theme song for the conspiracy theory movement.VideoCreditCredit...David Maxwel... | US Political Corruption |
Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Our Land... | US Congress |
America needs to talk about the right’s ‘Red Caesar’ plan for U.S. dictatorship
“Thought leaders” of the far right talk openly about a 2025 dictatorship. People need to be alarmed.
The incredible scenes this week on Capitol Hill — leaving the U.S. House without a speaker and promising an autumn of sheer chaos in Congre... | US Political Corruption |
North Carolina’s state elections board on Tuesday removed two local election officials who had refused to certify their county's 2022 results after officials determined they violated state law.
The state board voted unanimously to dismiss Surry County elections secretary Jerry Forestieri and board member Timothy DeHaan... | US Local Elections |
An Arkansas woman pleaded not guilty to charges she sold stolen body parts from medical school corpses for $11,000 to a Pennsylvania man she met on social media.
Candace Chapman Scott, 36, a former mortuary worker, is accused of selling 20 boxes of body parts to a man she met through a Facebook group about “oddities,” ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Medicaid has become a key component in negotiations over the debt ceiling
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About 1 out of every 4 Americans gets their health care coverage through Medicaid. The federal program that mainly serves people with lower incomes or disabilities has become pivotal to negotiations over the debt ceiling. Republ... | US Federal Policies |
Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones
MARION — In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.
Eric Meyer, o... | US Police Misconduct |
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican lawmakers who have spread election conspiracy theories and falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential outcome was rigged are overseeing legislative committees charged with setting election policy in two major political battleground states.
Divided government in Pennsylvania and Arizona... | US Federal Elections |
In a break with President Joe Biden and Senate Democratic leadership, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced Monday evening that he would vote against a supplemental spending bill to provide emergency military aid to Israel and Ukraine.
Sanders, who drew left-wing ire in recent weeks for stopping short of endorsing a pe... | US Federal Policies |
INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A New Jersey man deliberately drove his SUV into a home and the offices of a municipal police department earlier this month, authorities announced Friday.
No one was injured in either crash, which both occurred Sept. 20, the Warren County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release. Howeve... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Carlos Sanchez of McAllen, Texas, took out an enormous amount of federal student loan debt to make sure his children could attend college.
"As my third child makes her way through her senior year in college, I now have what amounts to about $160,000 in parent PLUS loans," Sanchez, 63, told NPR. He likely won't have the... | US Federal Policies |
Judge orders anonymous jury for E. Jean Carroll case against Trump
The judge cited the former president's public statements against the court.
For the third time Friday, former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric is factoring into a court case against him.
A federal judge in New York said the upcoming civil defamation tr... | US Federal Policies |
It’s simple math: when the score reads 210 to 8, the side with the much tinier number should lose.
Yet that’s not how it works in the US House of Representatives.
On Tuesday, a mutiny led by eight hardline conservatives toppled speaker Kevin McCarthy and plunged the House into chaos. Rattled financial markets declined ... | US Congress |
- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen panned a GOP idea to pay off certain debts to avoid a government debt default.
- Such a plan would ensure China and Wall Street are paid off first, said Democratic lawmakers.
- Yellen said the suggestion is "exceptionally risky" and "untested."
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yel... | US Federal Policies |
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is back in the race for speaker after Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., who the conference selected earlier this week, ended his bid for the job Thursday night.
Republican lawmakers are meeting behind closed doors Friday morning trying to hash out a way forward.
Jordan i... | US Congress |
Washington — Congress is veering toward another shutdown, having made little progress in advancing bills to keep the government open since lawmakersa lapse in funding almost six weeks ago.
The government is funded through Nov. 17, but the Democratic-led Senate and Republican-controlled House have yet to come to an agre... | US Congress |
This week has not been the US Senate’s finest moment. And we’re not talking about the chamber’s much-debated new dress code, which allows members (though not their staff) to wear casual clothes.
Instead, two events cast an unflattering spotlight on the rules that give individual senators too much power over government ... | US Congress |
Washington — The House of Representatives is poised to convene Tuesday toto elect its new speaker, with Republicans putting forth as their candidate to fill the post two weeks after the roiled the conference.
Jordan appeared to be on his way to 217 votes on Monday night, having won public endorsements of seven Republic... | US Congress |
The third flying object in as many days was shot down by US jets not far from military sites in Michigan, and was “octagonal” in shape, the Guardian’s Ed Pilkington reports. Here’s a recap of the very busy weekend had by American military aviators:
The US military has shot down a third flying object over North American... | US Federal Policies |
Under fire from House Republicans, the Biden administration has announced it will end the public health emergency over COVID-19 on May 11. But that raises a whole host of questions about the administration's other policies.
With more than three months to go before that date, the White House will need to hash out what e... | US Federal Policies |
Wisconsin GOP leader downplays pressure to impeach state election administrator
Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly leader is downplaying pressure he’s receiving from former President Donald Trump and fellow GOP lawmakers to impeach the state’s nonpartisan elections administrator, saying such a vote is “unlikely” to happen... | US Local Elections |
Biden argues Trump is an existential threat to America; Trump tries to point finger back at Biden
Democracy and election denialism could be defining issues in the 2024 race.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday labeled rival Donald Trump an existential threat to the country's system of government as he responded to the forme... | US Federal Elections |
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This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access. The article is available for reprint under the terms of ... | US Federal Elections |
Freedom Caucus announces opposition to Speaker Johnson stopgap plan
The House Freedom Caucus took an official position against House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) plan to avert a government shutdown, which he will aim to pass with support from Democrats on Tuesday.
“The House Freedom Caucus opposes the proposed ‘clean... | US Congress |
Texas jury convicts woman of fatally shooting cyclist Anna “Mo" Wilson in jealous rage
A Texas jury has convicted a 35-year-old woman of murder in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search for the killer
AUSTIN, Texas ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The US Republicans have had many opportunities to move into the post-Trump era of politics but they have consistently refused to take them.Such is the ex-president's threatening and manipulative grip on his party that he has turned each potentially devastating setback into a comeback.
In November 2020 the Republican le... | US Political Corruption |
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - New U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson has joined his conservative Republican colleagues in voting against abortion and same-sex marriage, but has drawn the most attention for his efforts to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election defeat.
His new role gives him huge clout st... | US Congress |
Politics Updated on: January 13, 2023 / 8:56 PM / CBS News Yellen warns U.S. to hit debt limit Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns U.S. to hit debt limit next Thursday 03:12 Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned congressional leaders on Friday that the United States is expected to hit the debt limit on Jan. 19 and u... | US Federal Policies |
Ahead of the meeting with president Joe Biden later today, the Congressional Black Caucus released a statement regarding its request to meet Biden following the death of Tyre Nichols who died after being brutally beaten by five Memphis police officers last month.
On behalf of CBC members, CBC chairman and Democratic Ne... | US Police Misconduct |
Rubio: House GOP don’t ‘care what senators think about their affairs’
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in a Sunday interview he did not think House Republicans cared what Senators thought about their ongoing struggle to select a Speaker of the House.
“I don’t vote in the House. I’m not a House member. I don’t think they ... | US Congress |
Democratic voters don't want Biden to lead them into 2024 presidential election – new pollGood morning, US politics blog readers, it’s summer time but the living isn’t easy in Washington whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican. It’s going to be a busy day at the start of a busy week, so let’s get going. A new opinion... | US Federal Elections |
Florida Republicans are on the verge of passing new restrictions on groups that register voters, a move voting rights groups and experts say will make it harder for non-white Floridians to get on the rolls.
The restrictions are part of a sweeping 96-page election bill the legislature is likely to send to Governor Ron D... | US Federal Elections |
WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks has received "credible death threats," she said in a statement on Wednesday, after voting against Representative Jim Jordan for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Jordan, a hardline conservative, was formally nominated by a majority ... | US Congress |
A child rapist was convicted in New Jersey nearly three decades after committing his crimes - using the blood of his own child.
In 2021, Brian Avis, 61, was convicted of sexually molesting a 10-year-old girl in 1996 after New Jersey police analyzed the DNA of Avis' child, who was born in 2012.
A little-known rule mea... | US Federal Policies |
Here’s some good news for the sizable number of Republican megadonors and the handful—only a slight understatement—of Republican voters desperate for an alternative to Donald Trump: It’s still August in an odd-numbered year. That means voters will not start casting ballots to decide the next GOP presidential nominee fo... | US Federal Elections |
Pretending we only exist in election years is a losing strategy for the left. October 17, 2022 Generally, Latinos are rendered invisible by the US mainstream—and a lot of the left—media. The exceptions are the “perp walk” images featured in local TV news outlets, usually showing “suspected gang members” being taken in ... | US Federal Elections |
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider whether to strike down President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief plan, the type of expansive use of presidential power about which the conservative majority has often expressed skepticism.
The program, which would allow eligible borrowers to cancel up to $20,... | SCOTUS |
Pelosi says Tapper ‘wasting time’ with Gaetz; doesn’t say how she’ll vote on McCarthy
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) blasted Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) in a Sunday interview, arguing the latter was a self-promoter and that the media was wasting time giving him attention.
She also said ... | US Congress |
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Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in November 2020 in Tombstone, Ariz., of Cochise County.
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Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in November 2020 in Tombstone, Ariz., of Cochise County.
Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Ima... | US Federal Elections |
Donald Trump incited an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, but can still appear on the Republican presidential primary ballot in Colorado next year, a Denver District Court judge ruled Friday in a case that could have national consequences.
Judge Sarah B. Wallace’s 102-page ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by a liberal polit... | US Federal Elections |
MINNEAPOLIS — A new law in Minnesota prohibits the misuse of manipulated video, images and audio — "deepfakes" — that seek to influence elections.
The provisions, which took effect this summer, are among the first state regulations like them nationwide, said Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon. And it addresses gr... | US Federal Elections |
Former Vice President Mike Pence called out several of his Republican opponents in the 2024 presidential primary on Sunday, hitting them for what he claimed is "signaling retreat from America's role as leader of the free world" following the fatal Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel Saturday.
He specifically named fellow... | US Federal Elections |
WASHINGTON -- Phoenix retiree Saundra Cole has been watching the news about the debt limit negotiations in Washington with dismay — and limiting her air conditioning use to save money just in case her monthly Social Security check is delayed due to a default.
For her, air conditioning is no small thing in a city where ... | US Federal Policies |
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told congressional leaders Friday the U.S. would hit its debt limit next week -- setting up a showdown between the White House and House Republicans, who have vowed to tie any increase in the debt ceiling to spending cuts.The nation will reach its $31.4 trillion borrowing limit on Jan. 1... | US Federal Policies |
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Graduates attend Tennessee State University's commencement ceremony in Nashville on May 7, 2022. Under a new repayment plan, millions of student loan borrowers will see their monthly repayment amounts cut in half or more.
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Graduates attend Tennessee State ... | US Federal Policies |
With some states only months away from their presidential primary, proponents of these changes say they are trying to ensure election integrity and build back public trust that has been tarnished from the previous election cycle.
The restructuring of election boards is in part compelled by the fallout from former Presi... | US Federal Elections |
Campaign launches to revamp Arizona primary system, eliminate partisan ballots
A bipartisan group of Arizonans has formally launched a campaign asking voters to amend the state constitution next year to remake the state primary election system and allow independents to participate more easily.
The Make It Fair Arizona ... | US Local Elections |
Several of the eight House Republicans who voted to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., indicated they have no regrets for the move that has led to two weeks without a speaker.
Fox News Digital reached out to the eight Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy from the speakership via Florida GOP Rep. Ma... | US Congress |
President Biden on Thursday unveiled a "sweeping" plan to go after COVID-19 pandemic aid fraudsters who stole billions of taxpayer dollars, and to help victims who lost their benefits to identity thieves.
The White House proposes to spend $1.6 billion on a three-pronged crackdown investigating and prosecuting systemic ... | US Federal Policies |
Fani Willis Agrees to Share Names of All 30 Unindicted Co-Conspirators with Trump and Other Georgia Defendants
That was the first and most immediate result of a hearing before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee
ATLANTA - Georgia prosecutors agreed Thursday to privately reveal the identities of the 30 unind... | US Political Corruption |
The soon-to-be ex-wife of Gilgo Beach triple-homicide suspect Rex Heuermann cryptically mentioned the ongoing probe of her jailed spouse Friday morning after arriving at the family’s suburban home.
“The sheer depression of what I saw was enough trauma,” said Asa Ellerup outside the Massapequa Park house of horrors wher... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
- Rep. Ocasio-Cortez condemned the Supreme Court's ruling striking down Biden's student debt plan.
- The New York Democrat called on Biden to continue working to get borrowers relief.
- She also accused the Supreme Court of corruption.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned the Supreme Court's Friday decision striking... | SCOTUS |
House GOP plagued by internal funding disputes despite shutdown dodge
The House dodged a near shutdown before rolling out of town, but Wednesday showed that GOP leaders face a seriously difficult task ahead in getting their fractious group behind measures to keep the government in business next year.
House Republicans ... | US Congress |
Authorities are on the hunt for a suspect in connection to the murder of Pava LaPere.
The 26-year-old, who served as CEO of EcoMap Technologies and was featured on this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 list, was found dead in her Baltimore apartment with signs of blunt-force trauma on Sept. 25, police confirmed to NBC News.
D... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
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Let’s assume for the sake of argument that Matt Gaetz is not serious. At all. About anything.
I don’t happen to believe that’s the case, but I can understand why somebody would. But I don’t think it matters. It does... | US Congress |
Card was the subject of a dayslong manhunt after the shocking violence in the city of Lewiston, Maine, and his death was confirmed by the police department in Lisbon, Maine.
“All we can confirm is that he’s deceased and there’ll be a press release,” a department spokesperson told Reuters on Friday night.
Card, 40, is b... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., declined to say whether Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., should resign from his position Wednesday afternoon, as the senator and his wife face federal corruption and bribery charges.
"Tomorrow he will address our caucus, and we'll see what will happen after that," Schumer said.
S... | US Political Corruption |
The following is a transcript of an interview with 2024 Republican presidential hopeful and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie that aired on Dec. 3, 2023.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to the former Governor of New Jersey and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, good to have you back on the program. ... | US Federal Elections |
Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., denied that the information contained in Hunter Biden's laptop hard drive is accurate on Thursday, reviving a debunked claim that the laptop contained Russian disinformation.
Goldman questioned journalist Michael Shellenberger on the topic of Biden's laptop during a Thursday hearing with the H... | US Political Corruption |
WASHINGTON -- Efforts to deceive the public about voting and elections remain a top concern for state election officials as they dig into preparations for the 2024 election.
Misinformation and the emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools to create false and misleading content were cited in interviews with ... | US Federal Elections |
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Holly Ramer, A... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
On Friday morning, George Santos was still a member of Congress. By Monday, he was a member of Cameo. The expulsion of Santos, a serial liar and subject of a 23-count federal indictment, could’ve given Republican leadership a chance to take a sliver of moral high ground. (Santos, by the way, has pleaded not guilty.) An... | US Congress |
A Superior Court judge has ordered a new Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport, ruling that challenger John Gomes’ claims of unprecedented absentee ballot fraud merit a new election.
The judge ordered the two sides and city election officials to meet within the next 10 days to begin discussions about when to hold a ... | US Local Elections |
Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operation has taken extortion to a new level by filing a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaint against one of their alleged victims for not complying with the four-day rule to disclose a cyberattack.
Earlier t... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Donald Trump has said he will be a dictator “just for day one” of his presidency if he is re-elected amid a spate of grim warnings over consequences if the twice-impeached president wins the 2024 elections.
Mr Trump appeared to duck the question twice during a Fox News townhall on Tuesday when Sean Hannity categoricall... | US Federal Elections |
ProPublica has long detailed how Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and other companies have worked against making tax preparation easier and less costly.
For the past quarter century, Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, has worked to thwart one clear threat to its profits: a free, publicly funded tool to file taxes online. The... | US Federal Policies |
Lawmakers voted Tuesday to oust embattled Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Such a move is the first in time history that the top member of the House has been removed from the job. Eight Republicans sided with every Democrat in a 216-210 vote.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., introduced a me... | US Congress |
Mike Pence and wife Karen strolled through the Iowa state fair, their little fingers locked together, as soap bubbles drifted by and chairlifts trundled overhead. The couple donned red aprons – his said “Vice President Mike Pence” – and flipped pork chops on a giant grill while smiling for photographers.
Then, with a b... | US Federal Elections |
I watch the news for a living and come across moments of political dysfunction at a regular clip.
So, I was not shocked to learn that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who until last month was second in the presidential line of succession, shoved a congressman in a “clean shot to the kidneys.” Nor was I particularly outr... | US Congress |
Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the ongoing civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump and other defendants in New York, upheld aon Wednesday over comments Trump made outside the courtroom.
Engoron announced the decision Thursday about an hour after Trump's attorneys asked him to reconsider the fine.
Th... | US Political Corruption |
Nov 15 (Reuters) - Lawyers representing a group of Colorado voters are set to deliver closing arguments on Wednesday in a lawsuit seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state's ballot next year over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
The voters are seeking ... | US Federal Elections |
In response to Israel’s war against Hamas, President Joe Biden and the now criminally indicted leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have demonstrated very different models of leadership. The stark differences between the two leaders are another example of how America’s democracy crisis is not “just” a... | US Involvement in Foreign Conflicts |
The media’s coddling of John Fetterman looks pretty embarrassing right about now
Why does our free press exist, if not to ask inconvenient and uncomfortable questions of the powerful?
In the case of the junior senator from Pennsylvania, our vaunted Fourth Estate simply is not up to the task.
On Sept. 17, Senate Majorit... | US Congress |
DeSantis inks law giving him 'all-clear' to run for president. Here's what else is inside
Editor's note: This story was updated to remove information indicating that the bill made harassing election workers in Florida a felony. That part of the bill was stricken from its final iteration.
Florida made headlines in April... | US Federal Elections |
An outside investigator recommended that an audit of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission be pulled from the Secretary of State’s website and re-examined.
The investigation comes after it was revealed former Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, who at the time oversaw state audits, had accepted an outside job as a can... | US Political Corruption |
A top Republican election official in Wisconsin is facing calls to resign from his role after boasting about lower turnout last year in Black and Hispanic areas of Milwaukee.Robert Spindell is one of three GOP appointees on the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC), the six-member bipartisan body that oversees elections... | US Political Corruption |
It was shocking news: Charles McGonigal, a former counterintelligence chief for the FBI, was arrested for his alleged role in two separate schemes. In one, he purportedly accepted $225,000 from an Albanian American businessman, while he was still in the FBI, and did favors for that businessman and Albanian Prime Minist... | US Political Corruption |
The judge separately ruled that Michigan’s secretary of state doesn’t have the power under state law to determine Trump’s eligibility for office based on the constitutional amendment.
The rulings mark a major victory for the former president, who has a commanding lead in the 2024 Republican presidential primary race, a... | US Federal Elections |
GOP ribs Pelosi after Roberts cites her in student loans decision
Republicans are calling out Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former House speaker, after Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts quoted her in his majority ruling striking down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program.
The court ruled 6-3 tha... | SCOTUS |
EXCLUSIVE — A cohort of top GOP lawmakers, 2024 presidential hopefuls, and other notable conservatives sold hundreds of thousands of hardcover copies for their 2023 books during the first weeks of the titles being released, data show.
The 10 Republicans, who range from the likes of former President Donald Trump and Gov... | US Campaigns & Elections |
Donald Trump's rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination are weighing in on Tuesday's blockbuster announcement that the former president's been indicted in the probe into the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
One of the first to release a statement was for... | US Federal Elections |
GOP leader McConnell returns to Senate after head injury
He visited his office Friday for the first time since his injury and is expected to be working a full schedule in the Senate this week.
He visited his office Friday for the first time since his injury and is expected to be working a full schedule in the Senate th... | US Congress |
It’s rare for Donald Trump to follow anyone’s lead but his own, especially the lead of his only half-serious contender Ron DeSantis, but the former president has jumped on the shutdown bandwagon, perhaps convinced of its effectiveness as a campaign strategy.
Earlier this month, DeSantis reportedly spoke with some of th... | US Congress |
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- Trump has mixed up "Obama" and "Biden" numerous times in recent campaign speeches.
- In an early morning Truth Social post, he said each mix-up was intentional.
- "No, I know both names very well, never mix them up, and know that they are destroying our Country."
In an early-morning screed, former President Donald Tr... | US Campaigns & Elections |
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- Marsallee Nicholas, a girl who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in 1983, is the inspiration for "Marsy's Law" The law expands the rights of crime victims. Her brother is funding efforts to put the law in place across the country.
- Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled the law, which will expand Wisconsin crime victim's righ... | US Local Policies |
In the two weeks since former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was forced out of his job, the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives has been unable to coalesce behind an alternative, leaving several simmering issues unaddressed by lawmakers.
In the interim, a new crisis has erupted in the Middle East, th... | US Congress |
Bernie Sanders Calls On Israel to ‘Stop the Bombing’
Sanders' comments come as lawmakers continue debating funding to Israel
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called on Israel to stop its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip if the country wants more funding from the US as it continues its conflict with the militant group Hamas.
"If... | US Congress |
WASHINGTON — The House voted Tuesday to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speaker's chair, with Rep. Matt Gaetz and seven other conservatives joining all Democrats present to remove him.
What happens next?
First, a temporary speaker takes over
The Office of the Speaker has been declared vacant. This does not immediately tri... | US Congress |
Democrats remain vexed by the House as Ukraine funding hits crisis point
A vote is being teed up for after the break. But no one is certain whether it can get through Congress.
Ukraine’s strongest supporters in Washington are looking at the three-week sprint after Thanksgiving as their best remaining hope of getting ai... | US Federal Policies |
Earlier this year we learned that the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank in Washington, is spearheading a project to staff a future Trump administration with tens of thousands of pre-vetted appointees, who would be tasked with “dismantling the administrative state from day one.” On Monday, Axios published det... | US Federal Policies |
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