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Biden Calls Out Members of Congress ‘Sowing So Much Division They’re Willing to Shut Down the Government’
The government's fiscal year ends September 30, with no budget compromise from Congress in sight
President Joe Biden criticized Congress for being unable to come to a deal and pass a government budget Saturday, cal... | US Congress |
As House lawmakers return from a summer recess next week, with less than a month to pass a federal budget, the GOP’s hard-right flank plans to impose a thorny ultimatum on its caucus: open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden or risk a government shutdown.
The scenario is setting up a potentially combustible... | US Congress |
CONCORD, N.H. -- A man charged with shooting a New Hampshire couple to death on a hiking trail last year spent months hiding from police — but over a probation violation from Utah, not the killings — and an analysis of shell casings and bullets found in the area could not conclude that his gun fired the shots, his atto... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Key events15m agoTrump's pick loses again after Warnock triumphs in GeorgiaShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureTrump's pick loses again after Warnock triumphs in GeorgiaGood mornings, US politics blog readers. If you are a Republican, you are probably sad about the loss of the party’s candi... | US Federal Elections |
The special grand jury in Fulton County investigating the 2020 presidential election in Georgia recommended charges against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and former GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, according to the special counsel grand jury report released Friday.
Fulton County ... | US Political Corruption |
The Biden administration is requesting more than $105 billion from Congress as part of a package it says will provide security assistance for conflicts in Ukraine and Israel while addressing “the global humanitarian impacts of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and of Hamas’ horrific attacks on Israel, including by ex... | US Federal Policies |
LaRose, the chief elections official in Ohio, has attended almost 70 events in support of Issue 1, a ballot initiative to make it harder to amend the state's Constitution. The measure, to be voted on next week, just months before Ohio voters decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in the Constitution, is backed by R... | US Local Elections |
8 dead after chase of car suspected of carrying smuggled migrants
Eight people in South Texas were killed on Wednesday after a car suspected of carrying smuggled migrants fled from police and crashed into an oncoming vehicle, according to local authorities.
Shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, a “suspected human smugg... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Is George Santos ever going to be expelled from Congress? It’s a question many people have likely asked themselves on many, many occasions. For instance, when the news first broke that he had made up large portions of his résumé. Or that he’d told people his grandparents had fled the Holocaust* and that his mother was ... | US Congress |
The US supreme court’s decision to strike down Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan late last week “usurped the authority of Congress”, Democratic House representative Ro Khanna said on Sunday.
Khanna, of California, argued that if anyone thought Biden was unduly empowered by the legislation which the president us... | SCOTUS |
- The full special grand jury report that previewed the criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 others for trying to overturn his loss in the 2020 Georgia election is set to be released.
- The special grand jury was used by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis since 2022 to gather evidence an... | US Political Corruption |
The FBI has posted a hefty reward for a US citizen after a relative said they witnessed her being kidnapped from her home in Mexico last month.
Maria del Carmen Lopez, 63, was taken from her residence in Pueblo Nuevo, Colima on Feb. 9, the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office stated in a press release.
A reward of up to $20,... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Assistant Attorney General at the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Charlotte Gibson, filed a request to a judge asking for an order to block Republicans from removing Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe from her post as a lawsuit plays out.
“Further official actions by Defendants to remove or atte... | US Local Elections |
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cinder block cell at a home in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said, by alerting them to a man they now suspect in sexual assaults in at least four more states.
Negasi Zuberi posed as an u... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The House may finally have a new Speaker, but the congressional impasse over funding for foreign aid hasn’t moved an inch. On Monday, Mike Johnson, the newly elected Republican Speaker, introduced a controversial bill that would both uncouple Israel and Ukraine funding and pull $14.3 billion in aid for Israel from the ... | US Congress |
Republicans have voted to back Steve Scalise as the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, but it is unclear if he has enough support to win an overall majority in the chamber.
He defeated hardliner Jim Jordan in a private party vote on Wednesday.
Mr Scalise, 58, must now work to unite the divided Republicans an... | US Congress |
MIAMI — A group of employers, students and community leaders expressed alarm Thursday over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' proposal to reverse a law that allows undocumented immigrants to pay in-state college and university tuition.
DeSantis, who is expected to launch a bid for president, has proposed reversing the 2014 mea... | US Local Policies |
Image source, Getty ImagesRepublican Kevin McCarthy is struggling to secure enough support to ensure he wins a vote to become the new Speaker of the House of Representatives.The Californian congressman must win a majority vote in the House on Tuesday to get the role.But a group of Republicans are refusing to back him, ... | US Congress |
Following the announcement that Representative Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, was chosen on Friday as the new nominee for House speaker, former Representative Adam Kinzinger shared his reaction to it on Friday.
House Republicans met Wednesday in hopes of agreeing on which person to vote for to replace California Repre... | US Congress |
WASHINGTON — Ellen Weber could shave off some of the more than $100,000 she owes in student loans if President Joe Biden's debt relief plan was to ever take effect, but Republican officials in her home state of Missouri have worked hard to make sure that won't happen.
Weber, 36, a therapist at a middle school just outs... | US Federal Policies |
Supreme Court Grants Last Opportunity To Defaulting States To Pay Arrears To Lower Court Judges
The SNJPC recommendations cover the pay structure, pension and family pension and allowances, besides dealing with the issue of establishing a permanent mechanism to determine the subjects of the service conditions of the di... | SCOTUS |
Trump Indictment Is Going to Make US Politics Even More Divisive
Public faith in the criminal justice system was already eroding—thanks in large part to the former president.
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Donald Trump’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury on March 30 is another grim marker of American civic decline that... | US Political Corruption |
- The DC Democratic Party is trying to stop an effort to implement ranked choice voting in the city.
- They argued in a lawsuit that low-income and Black voters would be confused by the system.
- Organizers hope to put the system up to a vote in November 2024.
In a lawsuit filed earlier this month seeking to block rank... | US Local Elections |
Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Monday introduced a plan to provide $14.3bn in aid to Israel by cutting funding for the Internal Revenue Service, setting up a showdown with Democrats who control the Senate.
In one of the first major policy actions under new House speaker Mike Johnson, House Republican... | US Federal Policies |
Rep. Jim Jordan, the far-right chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, formally kicked off his bid for House speaker on Wednesday, hoping to succeed Kevin McCarthy. To that end, the House Republican sent a relatively brief, five-paragraph letter to his GOP colleagues, summarizing the case for his candidacy.
Much of ... | US Congress |
U.S. regulators on Monday sued SolarWinds, a Texas-based technology company whose software was breached in a massive 2020 Russian cyberespionage campaign, for fraud for failing to disclose security deficiencies ahead of the stunning hack.
The company’s top security executive was also named in the complaint filed by the... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The photos were released due to a Daily Mail Freedom of Information Act request. The cocaine was discovered in the White House on July 2, prompting an evacuation and extensive investigation. Despite this, the owner of the substance has yet to be found.
The Biden family, including first son Hunter Biden, were away at Ca... | US Political Corruption |
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) introduced the Safeguarding Americans from Extremism Act on Thursday, seeking to prevent “Palestinian terrorists” from entering the country by halting the Department of Homeland Security from issuing visas or granting asylum to individuals seeking to enter the country with a Palestinian Authority... | US Federal Policies |
And now we wait. After eight grueling days, the 30 Texas senators who will decide the fate of Ken Paxton are deliberating in private. When they emerge, they will cast votes on each of the sixteen impeachment charges brought by the Texas House. A two-thirds majority—that’s 21 senators—on any of the sixteen will result i... | US Political Corruption |
Good morning and happy Friday, US politics readers. The longest of weeks on Capitol Hill continues today with Kevin McCarthy still chasing the speakership after losing 11 straight House votes.The California Republican’s team has been pleading with conservative holdouts overnight, trying to reach a deal to get him to th... | US Congress |
A young Florida mother was arrested after she allegedly used a parody website to hire a hitman to kill her 3-year-old son, police said.
Jazmin Paez,18, is facing charges of first-degree solicitation of murder and third-degree using a communications device for an unlawful use. She’s accused of logging onto hitmanforhire... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat, elicited boos and verbal attacks from anti-Israel protesters when walking past them waving an Israeli flag.
Boos and shouts of "Shame!" were thrown at Fetterman as he exited the building, waving the Israeli flag while passing progressive protesters from the veterans grou... | US Congress |
Reports: 'Glimmers of hope' for McCarthy dealKevin McCarthy’s team insists there has been progress in negotiations with the hard-right Republican rebels who have denied him the speakership through 11 straight votes, but whether it’s the breakthrough the California Republican so desperately needs is far from certain.The... | US Congress |
WASHINGTON — Centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced Thursday he won't run for re-election next year, a much anticipated decision that will reshape the battle for Senate control in 2024.
"After months of deliberation and long conversations with my family, I believe in my heart of hearts that I h... | US Federal Elections |
An attorney for Donald Trump provided scathing evidence against the former president in his federal classified documents case in Florida, and CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said it may lead to a conviction once the case goes to trial. ABC News reported that Trump attorney Jennifer Little told a grand jury that she "very ... | US Political Corruption |
After days of turmoil, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy abruptly abandoned demands for steep spending cuts from his party's hard-right flank and joined with Democrats to pass the bill, which funds government until November 17. The package was approved by the House 335-91, with most Republicans and almost all Democrats supp... | US Congress |
Republicans play offense on student loans ahead of SCOTUS decision
Republicans are taking advantage of a perceived opening on student loans, proposing legislation to tackle the issue in both the House and Senate this week ahead of the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on the legality of President Biden’s relief plan.
E... | SCOTUS |
The Illinois Senate has approved a plan to allow small modular reactors in the state, lifting a 36-year-old moratorium on new nuclear power installments. Proponents say the plan will ensure the state can meet its carbon-free power production promise by 2045. The Associated Press reports: Environmentalists have criticiz... | US Local Policies |
Harvard Medical School's morgue manager has been accused of selling body parts as part of a "stolen human remains" criminal network, according to a federal complaint unsealed Wednesday.
Morgue manager Cedric Lodge, his wife Denise and two others — Katrina MacLean and Joshua Taylor — allegedly conspired, the documents f... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
After an unquestionable loss to Biden in the 2020 election, Donald Trump bought into a wild and baseless conspiracy theory pushed by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell that he could be reinstated as president before the next election. This revelation comes in ABC News’ Jonathan Karl’s upcoming book on the former president, Tire... | US Federal Elections |
“Weak,” “delusional,” “wimp,” “liddle,” and “gone to the Dark Side” are all insults that Donald Trump has flung at his former vice president, Mike Pence. But now that Pence has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, Trump very much wants his endorsement.
Trump, who defended his supporters chanting “Hang Mike Pence”... | US Federal Elections |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House on Thursday approved development of new nuclear reactors, reversing a 1987 moratorium and sending to Gov. J.B. Pritzker a plan that addresses the Democrat's safety concerns over the proposal.
The 98-8 vote to allow construction of so-called small modular reactors beginning in... | US Local Policies |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida declined for now to postpone former President Donal... | US Political Corruption |
Some Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are touting chairman Jim Jordan’s leadership on efforts to secure the besieged southern border -- just as the migrant crisis is hitting new records, and Jordan could soon be the next speaker of the House.
The committee has been central in the House’s push to force the B... | US Congress |
In the wake of the Supreme Court's Friday ruling striking down the Biden administration's student loan debt cancellation plan, Republicans are moving forward with their own proposed solution.
Conservative lawmakers from both chambers, vocally opposed to the president's landmark program, which they said was an overreach... | SCOTUS |
This week, more than 800,000 student loan borrowers with billions of dollars in debt will start to have their loans discharged.
The one-time account adjustment comes after the Biden administration last month announced it would Monday.with a combined $39 billion in federal student loan debt. These borrowers have been in... | US Federal Policies |
U.S. aid to Israel is at a standstill in the U.S. Congress as lawmakers are running out of time to agree on billions of dollars in security priorities before a short-term government funding bill expires on November 17.
While Democrats and Republicans are broadly in agreement about assisting Israel in the month-old conf... | US Congress |
US conducts airstrikes against Iran-backed groups in Syria, retaliating for attacks on US troops
The Pentagon and U.S. officials say the U.S. military conducted airstrikes on two locations in eastern Syria involving Iranian-backed groups, hitting a training location and a weapons facility
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. militar... | US Involvement in Foreign Conflicts |
As Russia lays siege to multiple Ukrainian cities and President Vladimir Putin puts his nuclear deterrent forces on alert, the United States and its NATO allies face the most severe geopolitical crisis of the post-Cold War era. These events should serve as a stark warning: The office of the presidency, with its all but... | US Federal Policies |
Why Trump Trashed Netanyahu After Hamas Terror Attack in Israel: ‘F–k Him’
The former president holds a grudge over Netanyahu's response to the 2020 elction
When Donald Trump attacked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a presidential campaign rally in Florida on Wednesday, the former president’s remarks made ... | US Federal Elections |
Progressive group urges secretaries of state to investigate No Labels for misleading voters
The progressive organization MoveOn is asking secretaries of state across the country to investigate No Labels, a group pushing for a third-party presidential candidate.
“We are writing to inform you about our grave concern abou... | US Political Corruption |
Evan Greer is a transgender activist, musician and writer based in Boston. She’s the director of the digital rights non-profit Fight For The Future.
Senator Marsha Blackburn was recently caught on camera saying the goal of her bill, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), is to "protect minor children from the transgender i... | US Federal Policies |
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) vetoed a bill over the weekend that would have given striking workers unemployment benefits, part of a wider pivot to the center that has sparked rumors of a presidential campaign.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not answer directly.
"What I can say is the president certainly supports co... | Labor Activism |
A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached in the United States by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted a specific industrial control device because it is Israeli-made, U.S. and Israeli authorities say.
"The victims span multiple U.S. states," the FBI, the Environmental... | US Federal Policies |
A woman who was murdered by Keith Jesperson, the "Happy Face" serial killer, has been identified decades after her death, police said in a news release.
Jesperson is serving multiple life sentences after confessing to murdering eight women in multiple states between 1990 and 1995, and was known as the Happy Face killer... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
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Despite overwhelming support from the Rhode Island Senate, free school breakfast and lunch for all the state’s public school children will likely not be approved, according to state legislators.
Rhode I... | US Local Policies |
Senate passes short-term government funding bill averting shutdown
The vote took place in a late night session on Wednesday.
Senate leaders voted Wednesday night in favor of the short-term government funding bill the House passed Tuesday night ahead of Friday's shutdown deadline.
House Speaker Mike Johnson pitched a tw... | US Congress |
WASHINGTON -- A private bank is trying to force the Biden administration to end its pause on federal student loan payments, arguing the moratorium has no legal basis and has cost the bank, known for its refinancing business, millions of dollars in profits.
In a federal lawsuit filed Friday in Washington, SoFi Bank N.A.... | US Federal Policies |
Ben Carson endorses Trump 2024 at Iowa rally
Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson endorsed former President Trump in a speech in Iowa on Sunday.
Ahead of Trump’s scheduled address, Carson introduced the leading 2024 GOP presidential candidate as “my friend and your friend, and a friend of A... | US Federal Elections |
As he prepares a possible new presidential campaign, Donald Trump is seeking to recruit an operative who was behind a group which famously questioned the Vietnam war record of the 2004 Democratic nominee, John Kerry, the Washington Post reported.The operative who ran Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Chris LaCivita, worke... | US Federal Elections |
Lawyers for a Colorado man once charged with murder and still considered a suspect in the presumed death of his missing wife are asking for prosecutors to be disciplined for what they called intentionally withholding evidence in a bid to convict him.
Barry Morphew's lawyers allege in a complaint made public Tuesday tha... | US Political Corruption |
Republican infighting is so bad that lawmakers are getting into physical altercations in the halls of Congress.
NPR reporter Claudia Grisales tweeted Tuesday that while she was talking to Representative Tim Burchett after the Republican conference meeting, Kevin McCarthy walked past. As he walked behind Burchett, McCar... | US Congress |
Appearing on The Absolute Truth, a show on Lindell TV — a streaming service run by “MyPillow guy” and Trump pal Mike Lindell — Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington said the former president just doesn’t understand why attorneys Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Ken Chesboro would plead guilty.
“I think [Trump is] a little co... | US Political Corruption |
House GOP barrels toward uncertain Speaker floor vote
House Republicans are barreling toward a floor vote on their Speaker nominee — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — this week even as the Judiciary Committee chairman remains far from the 217 votes needed to win the gavel on the House floor.
Jordan clinched the nomination for... | US Congress |
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Threats begin when reason fails.
The failed full-court press to install Republican Rep. Jim Jordan as House Speaker... | US Congress |
A New York appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked a gag order in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial that barred him from complaining about the judge's law clerk.
The Appellate Division judge ordered the stay after Trump's attorneys appealed the gag order that Judge Arthur Engoron had put in place ... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
Republicans and conservatives celebrated Tuesday after Gigi Sohn, President Biden's embattled pick for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), announced she had requested the White House withdraw her nomination.
Sohn's decision came hours after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he would join all Republicans in votin... | US Federal Policies |
‘He’ll be out': Santos’ GOP critics anxiously await report they hope will help boot him
If it’s damning, as many expect, an Ethics Committee report could provide the votes to officially sever the New York Republican from the House.
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) has evaded two efforts this year to oust him from the House.... | US Congress |
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- Israel agrees to ‘4-hour pauses’ in military operations in Gaza City for humanitarian reasons…
- Protester shouts at Biden at Illinois autoworkers union event…
- Hou... | US Federal Elections |
New Jersey man who posted threat to synagogues gets 15 months in prison
A New Jersey man who admitted posting a broad online threat aimed at synagogues and Jewish schools in the state last year has been sentenced to 15 months in prison
CAMDEN, N.J. -- A New Jersey man who admitted posting a broad online threat aimed at... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Democratic and Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate said on Wednesday they would try to quickly pass legislation to keep the government funded, preventing a partial shutdown form beginning this weekend.
"No drama, no delay, no government shutdown. That's our goal and we hope to have an a... | US Federal Policies |
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In 2019, Kennedy Ndahiro, the editor of the Rwandan daily newspaper The New Times, explained to readers of The Atlantic how years of culti... | US Federal Elections |
President Biden on Wednesday vetoed the bill that would have scrapped his $400 billion student loan handout and vowed he wasn't "going to back down" when it came to forgiving the college debt of millions across the country.
"Folks, Republican in Congress led an effort to pass a bill blocking my administration's plan to... | US Federal Policies |
Admin of $19M marketplace that sold social security numbers gets 8 years in jail
24 million Americans thought to have had their personal data stolen and sold for pennies
A Ukrainian national is facing an eight year prison sentence for running an online marketplace that sold the personal data of approximately 24 million... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden are visiting Lewiston, Maine, Friday to mourn the deaths oflast week in the state's deadliest mass shooting in history.
The president is scheduled to deliver remarks paying his respects to the victims and thanking first responders. He will then meet privately with families of t... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The bare facts of the case cast American teenager William Leslie Arnold as a murderous villain who shot his parents because they refused to let him take their car to a drive-in in 1958.
Then just 16 years old, Arnold buried their bodies in the backyard of the family’s home in Omaha, Nebraska, and went about life as nor... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
House Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is inquiring whether or not a series of biting incidents by President Joe Biden's dog Commander have made the White House an unsafe work environment.
In a Wednesday letter to the president and acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su, Foxx said that Whit... | US Federal Policies |
Trump suggests Christie running because he wasn’t given WH position
Former President Trump called out fellow Republican Presidential candidate Chris Christie, suggesting the former New Jersey Gov. is only running in the GOP primary because Trump didn’t give him a spot in his cabinet.
“I mean, I heard they booed Christi... | US Federal Elections |
Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm and her under-secretary for nuclear security Jill Hruby are expected to announce “a major scientific breakthrough” on Tuesday, the Financial Times reports, which will probably be the success of an experiment to get more energy out of a fusion reaction than was put in.While the FT’s ar... | US Federal Policies |
WASHINGTON ― Democrats are open to a temporary government funding proposal from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), lowering the prospects of a government shutdown this week.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said in a letter to his colleagues Monday that the Democratic leadership team is “carefully review... | US Federal Policies |
CNN — The New Jersey attorney general’s office on Friday filed an emergent application in superior court to ask for a full recount and recheck of vote tallies in a handful of towns in Monmouth County, which was impacted by a voting system error during the November election. The New Jersey attorney general filed the p... | US Local Elections |
A source says that in conversation with a foreign politician, it emerged that their government assumes Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee in 2024. Joe will pull out before the first primaries; it will be too late for a grassroots candidate to enter the fray; an establishment stooge will be crowned at the conv... | US Federal Elections |
Donald Trump went over the edge over the weekend and began calling for his detractors to be prosecuted or even put to death.
“They are almost all dishonest and corrupt, but Comcast, with its one-side and vicious coverage by NBC NEWS, and in particular MSNBC, often and correctly referred to as MSDNC (Democrat National C... | US Political Corruption |
The US Treasury said on Thursday that it had began taking measures to prevent a default on government debt as the country hits its borrowing limit. Congress is gridlocked over raising this debt ceiling; the issue has been a fairly frequent feature of US politics in recent years. "I respectfully urge Congress to act p... | US Federal Policies |
MIAMI -- Former President Donald Trump is set to speak to some of his supporters near Mar-a-Lago Wednesday as he continues to dominate the Republican primary race for the White House despite four criminal cases against him.
Trump is appearing Wednesday at a convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida, with U.S. Rep. ... | US Federal Elections |
In his first appearance since being ousted from the House speakership, Rep. Kevin McCarthy told reporters Tuesday night that hardline Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., "are not conservatives."
"They voted against one the greatest cut in history that Congress has ever voted for 2 trillion, they voted against w... | US Congress |
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday hit back at the Florida backbencher who engineered his ousting just hours before, telling reporters at a press conference that the unprecedented vote to remove him from his leadership post was called for as part of a personal grudge.
Mr McCarthy, a California Republican, w... | US Congress |
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The real stakes of impeachment
Republicans are going to impeach Joe Bid... | US Political Corruption |
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., is facing a complaint alleging an "ongoing failure" to "fully complete" financial disclosure reports as required by lawmakers, according to a letter provided to Fox News Digital. The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) sent the document to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics Mo... | US Political Corruption |
One House Democrat said he has some names of Republican members he'd support for House speaker over the current nominee.
Fox News Digital staked out the House Democrats' conference meeting Tuesday morning and asked blue members going in if they think there is still a bipartisan speaker coalition on the table after Repu... | US Congress |
Trump claims Sidney Powell was ‘never’ his attorney following lawyer’s Georgia plea deal
Former President Trump claimed Sunday that Sidney Powell was “never” his attorney, just days after Powell took a plea deal in the Georgia election interference case.
“Despite the Fake News reports to the contrary, and without even ... | US Political Corruption |
The Justice Department charged an Internal Revenue Service consultant on Friday with stealing the tax returns of former President Donald Trump and thousands of the most wealthy Americans and leaking the information to the media.
Charles Littlejohn, a 38-year old from Washington, D.C., faces one felony criminal count fo... | US Political Corruption |
With the world on fire, a cowardly, timid news media is a threat to U.S. democracy
News organizations are using cowardly words to describe killing abroad, fascism at home — downplaying the danger to democracy.
There was a shocking and incredibly important story on the front page of the New York Times last week. As repo... | US Congress |
With the Biden administration half over and with the immediate dangers inherent to one-party rule in Washington behind us for now, it’s past time to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right. For decades, as the left has continued its march through America’s institutions, conservatives have been o... | US Federal Policies |
The FBI used a Nintendo Switch console to locate an abducted 15-year-old girl, who had been missing for 11 days back in August 2022, ABC15 reports.
In a horrendous case involving kidnap and sexual exploitation, a teenage girl was found and rescued only after she logged online with her Nintendo Switch.
The unidentified ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Trump’s Lawyers Preview Gag Order Oral Arguments With Claim Judge Violated His First Amendment Rights
The partial gag order in the DC election subversion case 'violates a long list of the First Amendment's most basic doctrines,' the former president's attorneys argued in an appellate brief filed Friday
The partial gag ... | US Circuit and Appeals Courts |
As the Supreme Court convenes on Tuesday to weigh whether the Biden administration can forgive billions of dollars in student debt, thousands of borrowers don’t plan to go quietly.
Upwards of 100 people were already outside the courthouse on a cold and rainy Monday evening, and groups will bus in many more as President... | SCOTUS |
- Over 500 students are flooding the Supreme Court on Tuesday to support student-debt relief.
- Democratic lawmakers are also joining a coalition of advocacy groups to support the plan.
- The Supreme Court will hear arguments and likely make a final decision on the relief in May or June.
The steps of the Supreme Court ... | SCOTUS |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's restrictive new election law significantly shortens the window for mailed ballots to be received — despite no evidence that the extended timeline has led to fraud or any other problems — and that change is angering active-duty members of the military and their families bec... | US Federal Elections |
Rep. Matt Gaetz is a “POS demagogue” for orchestrating the ouster of Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, a man who “repeatedly” lied to conservatives and, perhaps worst of all, is the “favorite Republican of the Democrat Party and their media.” Harsh words from conservative talk radio and cable news host Mark Levin.
F... | US Congress |
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