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Jewish man killed in altercation at dueling protests over Israel-Hamas war in California, sheriff and local organizations say
The medical examiner ruled Paul Kessler's death a homicide.
A 69-year-old Jewish man died after a blunt-force head injury following an altercation at an Israel-Hamas war protest in California, V... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
How Donald Trump helped Kari Lake become Arizona’s (and America’s) new Joe Arpaio
Opinion: You can draw a straight line (Or is it a crooked one?) from former Sheriff Arpaio to Donald Trump to Kari Lake.
We’re sorry, America.
Arizona did not invent Donald Trump.
However, Arizona did invent Joe Arpaio, and he invented Do... | US Federal Elections |
- Now that the Supreme Court has heard oral arguments over Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, here's what borrowers can expect next.
- Experts say a decision may come by late June.
Now that the Supreme Court has heard oral arguments over student loan forgiveness, borrowers may be wondering: What's next?
Oral argume... | SCOTUS |
How Mr. Nice Guy Tim Scott can slay Trump and win the nomination
In politics, nice guys may not finish last, but they rarely win — especially for president. But Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is giving it a try, at least according to the DC commentariat. But that’s not Scott’s real strategy; the Palmetto State senator is play... | US Federal Elections |
Washington — Ais set to kick off in Delaware superior court on Tuesday, as the voting technology company presses its claim before a jury that Fox knowingly aired false information about its voting machines and software in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.
Jury selection started Thursday and was set to resume ... | US Political Corruption |
Last night, Joe Biden gave an address warning of dire consequences if voters elect Republican extremists to office next Tuesday. Today, he’s heading west to campaign not in the tightest contests or those considered the best chances to oust sitting Republicans, but rather for incumbent Democrats trying to hang on to the... | US Federal Elections |
Former President Donald Trump's legal team filed a motion Monday seeking the recusal of the judge assigned to his 2020 election subversion case in Washington D.C., saying that her previous statements about Trump indicate her bias.
Trump lawyers John Lauro and Todd Blanche referred to two sentencing hearings overseen by... | US Political Corruption |
China-linked hackers are increasingly moving beyond espionage and into the disturbing world of power grid attacks. Threat researchers at security software firm Symantec this week released new evidence that the Chinese hacking group known as APT41 infiltrated the power grid of an Asian nation. Some details of the latest... | US Federal Policies |
- It’s not too late or families struggling to afford college next year to apply for financial assistance or ask the college financial aid office for more money.
- Here's how to craft your approach.
Getting into college is hard enough, but figuring out how to pay for it is another hurdle altogether.
Higher education alr... | US Federal Policies |
The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended, the mayor confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday.
Marion Mayor Dave Mayfield in a text said he suspended Chief Gideon Cody on Thursday. He declined to discuss his decision further and did not say whether Cody was st... | US Police Misconduct |
Would a government shutdown impact SNAP, WIC food assistance?
(NEXSTAR) — As Congress continues to try to avoid a government shutdown by the end of the week, it’s hard for many Americans to not worry about the impact it could have on their federal benefits.
In many cases, those benefits will not be impacted if the gove... | US Federal Policies |
Key events18m agoDemocrats clash over gun reforms, police fundingShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureDemocrats clash over gun reforms, police fundingDemocratic leaders in the House are facing resistance from progressive members over efforts to push through gun reforms before the chamber tak... | US Federal Policies |
Everything is back to normal on Capitol Hill.
The House is functioning again after more than three weeks. It finally elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
And that means lawmakers are back to doing what they do best: attacking one another and debating whether to expel or sanction fellow colleagues.
Sure, moments af... | US Congress |
They are going to attack.
Donald Trump is under siege. He faces 91 criminal charges and potentially hundreds of years in prison for his many alleged crimes in connection with Jan. 6 and his coup attempt. Trump and his forces will respond to this challenge to his power and authority. Just when their targets are tired an... | US Political Corruption |
In late September, a rare bipartisan bill was nearing the finish line in the House.
The draft legislation, which had been in the works for months, would penalize hospitals, labs and surgical centers if they didn't publicly list their prices.
While a key part of the bill, introduced by Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rod... | US Congress |
Delaware Gov. John Carney signed a bill into law that would ban smoking in any vehicle in the state, if someone under the age of 18 is an occupant of the vehicle.
It's a bill that has long been sought by the school children at Wilbur Elementary School in Bear.
In fact, as reported by the Delaware News Journal, students... | US Local Policies |
Chris Christie's remark about Jill Biden has sparked outrage on social media.
During the second Republican presidential primary debate on September 27, the 61-year-old former federal prosecutor rallied against teachers unions, of which Jill Biden is a member.
"This public school system is no longer run by the public. I... | US Federal Elections |
A state judge has taken the unusual step of ordering a new Democratic mayoral primary in Connecticut’s largest city to be held after the Nov. 7 general election is completed. The decision comes after surveillance videos showed a woman stuffing what appeared to be absentee ballots into an outdoor ballot box days before ... | US Local Elections |
As Senator Dianne Feinstein faces a barrage of calls to step down amid reports of poor health, colleagues say a resignation would prove even more damaging to Democrats looking to retain a majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Challenging the chorus of critics, Feinstein's allies argue the oldest sitting member of... | US Congress |
Biden plots new course to get relief for student borrowers
President Biden on Friday announced new actions to offer student loan borrowers some forgiveness, reintroducing his forgiveness plan grounded in the Higher Education Act (HEA).
Using the HEA to provide student debt relief has been pushed by student loan advocat... | US Federal Policies |
abortion op ed Photograph: Francisco Navas/Guardian Design Our panel will discuss the end of the landmark Roe V Wade ruling in this livestreamed event.On 24 June the supreme court ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion in the United States. The decision overturned the landmark Roe v Wade case which had... | SCOTUS |
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., is staying true to his words after he dared House Republicans earlier this month to impeach Joe Biden. Amid the GOP's first hearing for its highly-awaited impeachment inquiry into the president, Fetterman delivered a case of Bud Light beer to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountabi... | US Congress |
Speaker Mike Johnson signals that Ukraine aid, coupled with border security, is next on GOP agenda
New Speaker Mike Johnson says the U.S. House will consider a fresh aid package for Ukraine, but he wants to link it to more money at home for the U.S. border with Mexico
WASHINGTON -- New Speaker Mike Johnson told Republi... | US Federal Policies |
A set of updated campaign finance reports are deepening the mystery surrounding the source of high-dollar loans that Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) made to his campaign last year. Santos’s campaign previously reported that a pair of six-figure loans from the candidate — one for $500,000 that was made last March and anoth... | US Campaigns & Elections |
The governing body of the Utah Republican Party overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Saturday that calls the four criminal indictments and 91 felony charges against former President Donald Trump “political persecution.”
The resolution, which was overwhelmingly passed by the Utah GOP’s State Central Committee on Saturd... | US Political Corruption |
In the wake of Representative Troy Merner’s abrupt resignation, House Democratic leader Representative Matthew B. Wilhelm is asking what took so long and wondering whether lawmakers should draft legislation to prevent a situation like this from happening again.
Wilhelm told the attorney general’s office in a letter Wed... | US Congress |
Key events18m agoWith 'no regrets' about classified documents, Biden marks two years in office, hints at 2024Show key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWith 'no regrets' about classified documents, Biden marks two years in office, hints at 2024Good morning, US politics blog readers. Today marks th... | US Federal Elections |
House Democrats, with the help of a eight Republicans, voted down an effort led by GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House of Representatives to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a straight up or down vote.
The eight Republicans who joined Democrats in the 209-201 vote killing the effort in... | US Congress |
- A GOP senator said his constituents would've been upset if he hadn't tried to fight a labor leader.
- "I mean, what do people want me to do?" Sen. Markwayne Mullin said in a Fox News appearance.
- In a separate interview, he also said he's not afraid to "bite" his opponents: "I'll do anything."
A Republican senator s... | US Congress |
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) says his wife received multiple anonymous text messages that warned what would happen to his political career if he didn’t back Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) run for the House speaker role.
“Jim’s been nice, one-on-one, but his broader team has been playing hardball,” Bacon told Politico in a story... | US Congress |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Four months after a civil trial jury found that Donald Trump sexually abus... | US Political Corruption |
Former President Donald Trump isn’t immune from being held accountable in civil lawsuits related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot in a long-awaited, consequential decision from the federal appeals court in Washington, DC.
The decision, making new law around the presidency, will have significant implications for ... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
- The plaintiffs who brought legal challenges against the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan have filed their briefs with the Supreme Court.
- Here's why they believe the justices should strike down the president's plan.
Shortly after President Joe Biden announced an unprecedented plan to cancel hundr... | SCOTUS |
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., says Speaker Kevin McCarthy is "in trouble" after the last-minute vote to fund the government this weekend, saying the deal was a victory for Democrats.
Donalds made the comments during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday" with host Shannon Bream. He said Republicans "did not get anything" fro... | US Congress |
PHOENIX -- Republican Kari Lake’s lawyers were sanctioned $2,000 Thursday by the Arizona Supreme Court in their unsuccessful challenge of her defeat in the governor's race last year to Democrat Katie Hobbs.
In an order, the state’s highest court said Lake’s attorney made “false factual statements” that more than 35,000... | US Political Corruption |
It's not everyday that roughly the entire population of a U.S. state gets their data stolen by online thieves.
But, according to the state of Maine, that's what happened this year.
In a new notice posted on Maine's official state government website, 1.3 million residents have had their data stolen as part of a ransomwa... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
If there is any lesson to take from the past few years of American politics, it is that things can always get worse. This is worth remembering as Washington begins another fall of self-made and yet painfully real crises—the political prologue to a 2024 campaign season unlike any other, as the ex-President turned crimin... | US Federal Elections |
The Biden administration is launching an application for a new student loan repayment plan Tuesday as part of its latest attempt to offer relief to borrowers as payments resume despite significant political hurdles.
"This plan is a game changer for millions of Americans, many of whom are putting off having children, bu... | US Federal Policies |
House conservatives are heaping criticism on a plan to temporarily empower interim Speaker Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., to move legislation, an effort that's been gaining momentum as Republicans' struggle to find a new speaker drags on for over two weeks.
"Oh, Hell no. Hades no," Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, told reporters wh... | US Congress |
From the warm-and-fuzzy files comes this feel-good Friday post, chronicling this week’s takedown of two hated ransomware groups. One vanished on Tuesday, allegedly after being hacked by a group claiming allegiance to Ukraine. The other was taken out a day later thanks to an international police dragnet.
The first group... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Donald Trump has announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, likely sparking another period of tumult in US politics and especially his own political party.“In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump ... | US Federal Elections |
Alyssa Farah Griffin Claims Trump Wanted Person Who Revealed He Went to Bunker During George Floyd Protests ‘Executed’
'The View' co-host and former Trump adviser Alyssa Farah Griffin alleged she heard the former president make a violent statement in the aftermath of the May 2020 murder of George Floyd
On Tuesday's epi... | US Political Corruption |
Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case in which the supreme court could overturn abortion rights, is not the only one in which the justices could make a ruling that touches on a contentious issue in American society.There’s also Kennedy v Bremerton School District, which deals with a football coach’s pra... | SCOTUS |
In 2016, then Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said that some of Donald Trump’s followers were a “basket of deplorables”:
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic... | US Political Corruption |
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Web designer Lorie Smith is shown in her office on Nov. 7, 2022, in Littleto... | SCOTUS |
Politics|Right After Primary Win, Bolduc Reverses Support for Election Lieshttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/us/politics/don-bolduc-nh.htmlSept. 15, 2022Updated 1:38 p.m. ETLike a driver making a screeching U-turn, Don Bolduc, the Republican Senate nominee in New Hampshire, pivoted on Thursday from his primary race to... | US Federal Elections |
How the backbone of American elections is being upended
Organizations that once fostered quiet, apolitical cooperation in the past have increasingly been thrust into the spotlight.
A bipartisan behind-the-scenes organization that helps states maintain their voter rolls is facing an uncertain future, after several Repub... | US Federal Elections |
Show up in Florida to campaign for the GOP, but without inviting the state’s Republican governor? Sounds like exactly the sort of thing Donald Trump would do.Trump spares no opportunity to put those who get on his bad side in their place, and he seems to have chosen to do that to Ron DeSantis, who Politico reports won’... | US Federal Elections |
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and a top witness for the House Select Committee investigating January 6, writes in her new book Enough that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani sexually assaulted her on the day of the insurrection.
An adviser to Mr Giuliani forcefully rejected the allegati... | US Political Corruption |
Majority Leader Steve Scalise is scrambling to lock down the votes to become the next House speaker, but protracted opposition to the Louisiana Republican inside the GOP conference and the numerical realities of the narrowly divided chamber could ultimately derail his bid.
Several senior Republicans see little path to ... | US Congress |
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A Black family fights to get their kids back from Tennessee Department of Children’s Services
One month after the Tennessee Highway Patrol pulled the couple over, their five young children remain in state custody
Bianca Clayborne and Deonte Williams were on the way to Chicago for a family funeral when t... | Civil Rights Activism |
Senate Republicans on Wednesday rolled out a new plan to address rising student debt and the soaring cost of college just as President Joe Biden’s $400 billion student loan handout is expected to be struck down in the Supreme Court.
Instead of trying to forgive loans as Biden did, Senate Republicans are supporting prog... | US Federal Policies |
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is extensively cooperating with special counsel Jack Smith's election interference investigation of former President Donald Trump, CBS News has learned.
Meadows has provided lengthy and in-depth testimony several times in the past year before the grand jury, as well as pro... | US Political Corruption |
FIRST ON FOX: Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican, demanded answers from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin regarding the Defense Department’s (DOD) "inadequate guidance" for colleges seeking waivers to host Confucius Institutes on campus while maintaining department funding.
Banks, who is running for Senate in Indiana, s... | US Federal Policies |
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to pass a Republican measure to block President Joe Biden's student debt relief program and end the administration's pause on federal student loan payments.
The House voted 218-203, largely along party lines, with two Democrats — Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesen... | US Federal Policies |
If there’s one thing that unites Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Shad Murib, Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams and Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, it’s their shared skepticism of the election system overhaul being proposed by Kent Thiry, the wealthy former CEO of the Denver-based dialysis giant DaVita.
Each d... | US Local Elections |
Durbin on potential government shutdown: ‘I don’t know what to think’
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-III.), the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said Sunday he “doesn’t know what to think” over a potential government shutdown if Congress is unable to pass funding bills or come to a short-term resolution by Friday.
When asked by CNN’... | US Congress |
Eight Republican presidential candidates gathered for the first primary debate of the 2024 cycle, offering Americans one of their first major chances to start weighing who will be the GOP standard bearer next year.
What voters got was two hours of sharp elbows over everything from age to policy to, of course, former Pr... | US Federal Elections |
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled today that evidence gleaned from a warrant for Google's search data could be used in the prosecution of a teen who was charged with murder for a fire that killed five people in the Denver area. From a report: As police scrambled to solve the source of the 2020 blaze, they asked Alphabet... | SCOTUS |
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This is the sixth story in The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island series from Radio Diar... | US Police Misconduct |
Former Trump White House official Alyssa Farrah Griffin said Sunday that the former president appeared to have lost a step during a campaign stop in Iowa on Saturday. Trump during a rally speech in Cedar Rapids claimed that President Joe Biden "is the destroyer of American democracy" and vowed to "do something" about O... | US Federal Elections |
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new book is as much a memoir as it is a map of his political ideology. An anecdote about playing Little League baseball is tied to his support of Taiwan. He spends more ink detailing his public battle with Walt Disney World than his wedding at the Magic Kingdom.
DeSantis, regarded as a potent... | US Federal Elections |
Republicans Get Ready to Rumble
After House Democrats narrowly averted a shutdown, GOP congresspeople are in brawling mode.
First time farce, second time… farce. That appears to be the principal takeaway from the great GOP House leadership rebellion of 2023.
Back in early October, patient followers of MAGAfied Kremlino... | US Congress |
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I feel Prettyman, oh so Prettyman
I’m enjoying some time with family, s... | US Federal Elections |
Washington — Many Republican lawmakers have posed raising the threshold to trigger a no-confidence vote in the next House speaker — or ditching the rule altogether — afterfrom the role Tuesday.
What is a motion to vacate?
The California Republican paved the way for his own dismissal in January as he sought enough suppo... | US Congress |
ROCHESTER, N.H. — For $1, New Hampshire voters were invited to drink beer with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday in Concord.
But barely more than two dozen people showed up at the New Hampshire Home Builders Association, which slashed the ticket price for the general public from $50 late in the week in order to bui... | US Federal Elections |
Illinois governor blasts Trump over ‘vermin’ rhetoric
“I don’t know where it’s going with Donald Trump,” he said.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Sunday expressed deep concern about rhetoric from former President Donald Trump that he said echoed language from Nazi Germany.
Speaking on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” th... | US Political Corruption |
American cardholders paid a record $130 billion in interest and fees in 2022, according to a new government report.
The study released Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was part of the government watchdog’s biennial report to Congress. The breakdown: Credit card companies charged consumers more... | US Federal Policies |
Ranking Member Raskin’s Statement on Chairman Comer’s Rejection of Hunter Biden’s Public Testimony
Washington, D.C. (November 28, 2023)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, released the following statement after Chairman Comer rejected Hunter Biden’s request to test... | US Political Corruption |
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters about launching an impeachment inquiry into President Biden on Sept. 14, 2023.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters about launching an impeachment inquiry into President Biden on Sept. 14, 2023.
J. Sc... | US Congress |
While Donald Trump is responsible for unhinged, incoherent content on Truth Social every single day, an image he posted on Monday evening stood out for being especially offensive and delusional. Tucked between video clips of Trump’s remarks hours earlier outside a Manhattan courtroom, where he is being tried for fraud ... | US Political Corruption |
Congressmen ask DOJ to investigate water utility hack, warning it could happen anywhere
Three members of Congress are asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate how hackers breached a water utility system near Pittsburgh
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Three members of Congress have asked the U.S. Justice Department to inves... | US Federal Policies |
Fulton County’s sweeping indictment against former President Donald Trump and 18 additional co-defendants also includes details involving 30 “unindicted co-conspirators” – people who Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges took part in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
Some of the co-co... | US Political Corruption |
The Fulton County District Attorney's Office has issued a subpoena for former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik to testify in the first trial scheduled in Georgia later this month over allegations of election interference by former President Trump and more than a dozen of his allies 2020, Fox News Digital has confirmed.
A... | US Political Corruption |
Washington — Former President Donald Trump is appealing athat restricts him from making public statements about certain individuals involved in special counsel Jack Smith's case against him in Washington, D.C., according to a court document filed by Trump's legal team on Tuesday.
Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a limited ga... | SCOTUS |
Conservatives hold back on Johnson ouster threat — but plot other payback
The House GOP’s right flank is furious the new speaker worked with Democrats to avoid a shutdown, a move that essentially mirrored Kevin McCarthy’s last act on the job.
Speaker Mike Johnson is averting a government shutdown essentially the same w... | US Congress |
In a 2017 interview with 60 Minutes, Robert Bigelow didn't hesitate when he was asked if space aliens had ever visited Earth. "There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence," said Bigelow, a Las Vegas-based real estate mogul and founder of Bigelow Aerospace, a company NASA had contracted to build inflatabl... | US Federal Policies |
Donald Trump’s devolution into an American dictator who believes that he is on a mission from God as some type of chosen one continues. This is mentally pathological behavior on a massive level. His Hitler-like behavior is only going to get worse as next year’s presidential election approaches and the pressure from his... | US Political Corruption |
Momentum is building in Washington for a special commission to tackle the nation’s nearly $34 trillion debt, but the idea is drawing mixed reviews from some lawmakers amid skepticism of its chances of success in a divided Congress.
Members across Congress have been pressing for a fiscal commission aimed at exploring wa... | US Federal Policies |
On Tuesday, voters in Ohio enshrined protection for reproductive rights in the state constitution, while voters in Virginia gave control of both legislate chambers to Democrats, thereby thwarting Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s plans to enact abortion restrictions in the state.
On Wednesday, Republican Rep. Bob Good of Virginia ... | US Local Elections |
For those who have closely followed the political rise of Donald Trump, it’s rather obvious that the former president isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. This is a man, after all, who once mused about spraying disinfectant or ultraviolet light inside the body to kill the Covid-19 virus, looked directly at the sun duri... | US Political Corruption |
Questions mounted Thursday about why an Oklahoma sex offender who authorities say shot to death his wife, her three children and their two friends and then killed himself was freed from prison despite facing new sex charges in a separate case.
Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said each victim had each been shot in th... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Student loans? US approves $42B to forgive debt for public workers.
The United States rolls out a loan forgiveness program to encourage public service. Open to teachers, librarians, nurses, and others, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program cancels a borrower’s remaining student debt after 10 years of public inter... | US Federal Policies |
FBI Director Christopher Wray pleaded with lawmakers on Tuesday to continue funding a controversial surveillance tool of the U.S. government.
Wray testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning. In his opening remarks, he urged Congress to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveill... | US Federal Policies |
Ranked-choice voting is having a moment. The past year saw not only an expansion in the use of ranked-choice systems but also increased interest in instituting it more widely. And in 2023, legislatures in at least 14 states will consider bills that would move them to this increasingly popular model.In ranked-choice ele... | US Federal Elections |
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is embroiled in a controversy dubbed by critics and the media as #LecternGate or #PodiumGate -- a silly-sounding name for a potentially serious issue involving an unusual payment with tax dollars and an alteration to the receipt of how that money was spent.
While there have been man... | US Political Corruption |
Pro-DeSantis super PAC fires interim CEO after 9 days
Never Back Down fired Kristin Davison on Friday, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The chief super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, Never Back Down, has fired its interim chief executive officer after less than two wee... | US Political Corruption |
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Elections officials in a central Pennsylvania county were scrambling on Monday to fix an error on more than 18,000 mail-in ballots for the spring primary, when voters will elect judges for the state Supreme Court and other positions.
Late last week someone noticed that the ballot for Superior Court i... | US Local Elections |
Maine's secretary of state is raising concerns over No Labels's initiative to launch independent tickets across the United States, claiming that the organization misled voters into registering as third party for the 2024 election.
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said on Monday that she received "complaints" from loca... | US Federal Elections |
According to the Florida governor's campaign, "Donald Trump causes major workplace accidents for his own candidacy every time he veers off the teleprompter."
It started the tally Monday, pointing out gaffes from Trump's New Hampshire rally. "Did you miss the Trump rally today? Here’s a quick recap: (WARNING: There were... | US Federal Elections |
That could make the I-10 blaze complicating LA traffic this week the third fire in the area involving leftover hand sanitizer. A different pallet yard storing sanitizer erupted in flames in downtown Los Angeles in January. And in 2021, a notoriously noxious smell plaguing the LA County town of Carson was linked by offi... | US Federal Policies |
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., returned to the Senate floor Monday after being hospitalized for several days, amid growing concerns over his health and ability to serve in the Senate.
The Democrat was hospitalized for three days after feeling lightheaded, but made an appearance at the Capitol after doctors reportedly rule... | US Congress |
A “demonic” MS-13 gang member robbed and dismembered an Uber Eats driver in Florida last week as his wife waited for him to complete his final delivery of the night, police announced Tuesday.
Oscar Solis, 30, who moved to the Sunshine State in January after being sprung on parole from Indiana, allegedly “yanked” Randal... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Washington — Embattled GOP Rep. George Santos' future in Congress could be determined Wednesday night when the House is set to vote on a resolution that would expel him from Congress, an effort .
Five GOP lawmakers from the Empire State urged their Republican colleagues to vote in favor of their resolution expelling Sa... | US Congress |
You have probably heard about Donald Trump’s record-setting run of four indictments. It has, understandably, received wall-to-wall media coverage. You may well have heard about the Trump indictments from the ex-president’s fellow Republicans, loudly disputing the facts and attacking the prosecutors. Or from the Trump c... | US Political Corruption |
The Biden administration said it is forgiving $9 billion in student debt for 125,000 borrowers, a move that comes as student loan repayments are starting up again this month after a hiatus of more than three years.
The debt cancellation is the latest push from the White House to erase some student loans in the wake of ... | US Federal Policies |
- An appeals court rejected three companies' request to pause relief for borrowers in the Sweet vs. Cardona lawsuit.
- Last year, a federal judge signed off on a settlement in the case that would give 200,000 borrowers $6 billion in debt relief.
- Those borrowers filed a lawsuit in 2019 over stalled borrower defense cl... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
Thousands of texts from Trump allies stay hidden in Arizona a year after judge's order on 'audit'
More than a year after a judge ordered the leader of the controversial Arizona "audit" to turn over his texts and other electronic messages, thousands still remain inexplicably hidden.
Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan has relea... | US Political Corruption |
Trump backs Adams, Cuomo in sexual misconduct lawsuits
Trump has faced several allegations of sexual misconduct over the years.
Former President Donald Trump expressed his support for New York Mayor Eric Adams and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the pair face new lawsuits from women alleging sexual misconduct — in... | US Political Corruption |
A Stanford University employee was arrested Wednesday on charges of lying to authorities about two alleged incidents of rape that she claimed occurred on the California campus, prosecutors said.
According to the complaint, obtained by NBC News, Jennifer Gries, 25, of Santa Clara, was arrested on two felony counts of pe... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
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