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For the fourth time in five months, former President Donald Trump has been indicted on criminal charges.
Trump and 18 other people were charged in a sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia, over more than a year.
The defendan... | US Political Corruption |
President Joe Biden’s interview with ProPublica last Friday was the kind of era-defining interview one can easily imagine as source material in a future history course (assuming history will still be allowed to be taught in the future).
In the interview with journalist John Harwood, Biden broached everything from forme... | SCOTUS |
For the first time in weeks, the House has a permanent speaker, and can finally move forward with time-sensitive legislation. Exactly what newwill bring to the floor — and what he plans to either delay or bypass — is coming into focus, as Washington gets to know a relatively low-profile member whose prior experience in... | US Congress |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden on Tuesday offered to testify publicly before Congress in response to a subpoena from Republicans investigating nearly every... | US Congress |
Miami University in Ohio is my alma mater. And for decades, Miami’s football teams played on a field which featured a mystifying, archaic, non-digital game clock which nobody – and I mean nobody – could understand.
Not even the players and coaches from Miami.
Most clocks tell time.
But all that old clock told was ambig... | US Congress |
McCarthy’s description for debt ceiling is bad medicine for older Americans
Republicans pledged during the State of the Union to take Social Security and Medicare off the table in debt ceiling negotiations, but Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) new plan demands that older and working Americans pay for the GOP’s miser... | US Federal Policies |
A federal judge in Georgia has denied former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' bid to move his Fulton County election interference case to federal court.
"Having considered the arguments and the evidence, the Court concludes that Meadows has not met his burden," Judge Steve Jones wrote in a 49-page order filed F... | US Federal Policies |
In the last two days, the quest to hold accountable those who allegedly interfered in the 2020 presidential election has taken two dramatic and potentially far-reaching turns. Lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro have decided to plead guilty and testify against their co-defendants in Fulton County District Attorn... | US Political Corruption |
Here’s the White House’s attack line today against Republicans, condensed into a tweet:
Some economic truths, before we get into the politics: America’s budget debt is very high, both in absolute terms, and as a percentage of GDP. The federal budget deficit – which is the portion of its spending that Washington must bo... | US Federal Elections |
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump wants to subpoena the successor to the Jan. 6 committee and several other entities in connection with the federal election interference criminal case, contending that there are "certain missing records" that could be relevant to his defense.
In a court filing in one of the two... | US Federal Elections |
Counties in Pennsylvania have told Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and lawmakers that it is too late to move up the state's 2024 presidential primary date if counties are to successfully administer the election.
In a letter, the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania said there is no longer enough time for count... | US Federal Elections |
On Nov. 16, 2023, the bipartisan House Committee on Ethics issued a scathing report on the behavior of Rep. George Santos, finding that Santos had engaged in “knowing and willful violations of the Ethics in Government Act.” That committee’s Republican chair later introduced a motion to expel Santos from Congress. Regar... | US Political Corruption |
Senate Democrats hope to quickly advance President Joe Biden’s pick to be his top diplomat in Jerusalem with the deadly terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel increasing the urgency to fill the position.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to meet next Wednesday to hear from Jack Lew, a former Treasury secretary ... | US Federal Policies |
Wednesday evening’s GOP debate was another exercise in futility—a skirmish between future also-rans who mostly served to emphasize how Donald Trump's dominance wasn't on stage. But the ordeal may have been clarifying in at least one way—as a showcase for a particular strain of smugness that has come to dominate the far... | US Federal Elections |
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump filed a brief with the Colorado state Supreme Court this week arguing that a constitutional provision that would disallow him from being able to run for the presidency again in 2024 should be ignored because, as they put it, he never made an oath, as president, to “support” the... | US Federal Elections |
Bernie Sanders was forced to step in to prevent a fist fight during a heated war of words at a US Senate hearing.
The experienced senator played peacekeeper after Republican senator Markwayne Mullin, a former-cage-fighter-turned-politician, took to his feet to confront union chief Sean O'Brien.
Moments earlier, Mr Mu... | US Congress |
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 |
Donald Trump’s dubious defense that he was exercising his free-speech rights in response to a four-count federal criminal indictment charging him with pushing illegal schemes to overturn his 2020 election loss is prompting ex-Department of Justice (DoJ) officials and scholars to criticize such claims as bogus and as th... | US Federal Elections |
In what may be the first time the word “shitter” has entered the Congressional record, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) put her Republican colleagues on blast during a Thursday hearing of the House Oversight Committee, accusing them of willfully ignoring Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents.
At the first hear... | US Congress |
Ocasio-Cortez knocks Biden plan for student loan interest to kick in during ‘on-ramp’ period
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took aim Sunday at President Biden’s plan for student loan interest to restart during his proposed “on-ramp” period after the Supreme Court shot down his plan for student loan forgiveness.... | US Federal Policies |
- President Joe Biden will sign an executive order that aims to expand access to care for children and elderly and disabled Americans.
- The cost for care for older people and those with disabilities has spiked 40% in the last decade. During that time, the cost of child care has climbed 26%.
- The move comes as the Whi... | US Federal Policies |
FIRST ON FOX: A coalition of 25 Senate Republicans joined by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., are introducing legislation to block the Biden administration from moving forward with regulations targeting gas-powered car tailpipe emissions.
The lawmakers, led by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and ... | US Federal Policies |
According to the memo from the FBI and department of homeland security, the federal agencies have identified an increase in threats “occurring primarily online and across multiple platforms” including social media.They specifically link the increase to the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, a strong sign of yet more legal ... | US Political Corruption |
Trusting the process — Networks blocked had dozens of fake accounts from China, thousands from Russia. China's ability to influence American politics by manipulating social media platforms has been a topic of much scrutiny ahead of the midterm elections, and this week has marked some progress toward mitigating risks on... | US Federal Elections |
Why is the White House convening a summit on food insecurity for the first time in half a century? As The Guardian’s Nina Lakhani reports, a combination of high inflation and the end of pandemic support programs has squeezed vulnerable households, prompting the Biden administration to step in with a pledge to end hunge... | US Federal Policies |
Republicans tried to squash Biden's new student loan repayment plan. They failed.
The Senate late Wednesday narrowly struck down a Republican-led effort to overturn President Joe Biden’s generous new student loan repayment plan, which conservative critics slammed as a “free college scheme.”
The Democrat-controlled Sena... | US Federal Policies |
Trump: Koch Network endorsement of Haley a ‘minor hit’ for DeSantis
Former President Trump, the front-runner for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination, says a conservative group’s endorsement of primary rival Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, is “a minor blow” to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s strugglin... | US Federal Elections |
Hamas’ Terror Also Holds A Warning For The US
American politics is increasingly filled with the kind of hateful rhetoric that can incite its own kind of violence.
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- We become depraved by degrees. Germans did not become Jew killers in a day. It took years of conditioning, via propaganda, and then st... | US Political Corruption |
- Bankruptcy-bound trucking firm Yellow received $700 million in Covid pandemic relief loans three years ago, after Trump administration officials pushed for it despite objections from the Defense Department.
- And Yellow has repaid just $230 out of the $729.2 million in principal it still owes the U.S. Treasury for th... | US Federal Policies |
To bring the fight to the GOP directly, the campaign said it is placing 1,000 signs of "Dark Brandon," which is a photo of President Joe Biden with red laser eyes, around the debate venue. The meme is a nickname for Biden in social media posts based on the anti-Biden phrase, "Let's Go Brandon," but the Democratic presi... | US Federal Elections |
“They had none left. That’s not good. That’s my kind of food too.”
Mr Trump later took to Truth Social, his social media platform, to thank the officials.
“I had a great afternoon with each and everyone of you — You’re ALL appreciated more than you’ll ever know,” he said. “On behalf of all Americans, THANK YOU for your... | US Federal Elections |
Zuckerbucks redux: Social media mogul funds recruitment of progressives to administer elections
Clerk Work has recruited hundreds of candidates to run for local elections offices. "You can influence quite literally who is administering elections," said founder of program's parent organization Amanda Litman, who was ema... | US Local Elections |
Chris Christie announced his presidential campaign on Tuesday, which is notable mostly because he’s the only Republican candidate who has actually made a point of attacking Donald Trump. He certainly did so last night, to which the former president responded with characteristic childishness.
“How many times did Chris C... | US Federal Elections |
In blunt and unequivocal words, Trump claimed, "It was Joe Biden with his weakness and what he did with Iran and others that caused the attack on Israel."
The event came just hours after the former president filed for the state's first-in-the-nation primary on Monday and just days after Biden held a prime-time address ... | US Federal Elections |
Voters will choose candidates for a slew of offices in New York and Florida today, but one race with an immediate – although not decisive – effect on the balance of power in Congress is taking place in New York.The state’s 19th district has swung between supporting Democrats and Republicans, and there, voters will choo... | US Federal Elections |
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is running for speaker of the House, a race that will have a significant impact on the future of the Republican Party and the governing ability of Congress.
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is running for speaker of the House,... | US Congress |
Black Panther is one of my favorite films. Yet, I’ve always been troubled by the idea that Wakanda, the technological and social embodiment of the Age of Enlightenment, decides who its leader will be based on ritual combat. The ability to hurl your opponent off a cliff doesn’t translate into crafting treaties or intric... | US Federal Elections |
One of the world’s most active ransomware groups has taken an unusual—if not unprecedented—tactic to pressure one of its victims to pay up: reporting the victim to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The pressure tactic came to light in a post published on Wednesday on the dark web site run by AlphV, a ransomwar... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
It was inevitable from the beginning of the 119th Congress
that Kevin McCarthy’s speakership would hang by a thread and probably be
challenged frontally within his first year. And Matt Gaetz was always going to
be the one to deploy it.
But the chaos in the House has its roots going back many years. And Kevin McCarthy h... | US Congress |
Washington — Thefrom his position as House speaker to fill the now-vacant seat atop the GOP-controlled lower chamber.
Patrick McHenry, who now temporarily wields the gavel as speaker pro tempore, announced during a meeting with fellow GOP lawmakers on Tuesday that the House Republican conference will hold a candidates'... | US Congress |
In one of its many attempts to curb robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission said it is making it harder for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to obtain direct access to US telephone numbers.
Robocallers make heavy use of VoIP providers to bombard US residents with junk calls, often from spoofed pho... | US Federal Policies |
Are you stumped about what to give your loved ones this holiday season? Gift shopping for the guy or gal who has everything? Looking for some dirt on your representative in Congress? George Santos has got you covered!
The former congressman, who was unceremoniously booted from the House on Friday, is filling his early ... | US Congress |
After engineering this month’s unceremonious defenestration of the hapless Kevin McCarthy, some far-right Republicans openly dreamed of installing their hero Donald Trump to replace him as speaker of the House of Representatives.
Trump himself, meanwhile, suggested that only Jesus Christ was certain to be elected to th... | US Congress |
The judge presiding over theof former President Donald Trump is open to rescheduling a March 25, 2024, trial but won't consider the issue until February, he said in a letter to Trump's attorneys.
Judge Juan Merchan said in his Sept. 1 letter that in February, he will consider "any necessary changes" or "any actual conf... | US Political Corruption |
WASHINGTON (AP) — By most accounts, Speaker Mike Johnson inherited a House Republican majority in disarray after the sudden ouster of his predecessor last month.
But as Johnson, R-La., tries to rebuild that slim majority, he’s fast running into the same hard-right factions and divisions that Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Cali... | US Congress |
January 18, 2023 10:53 AM A whistleblower from the Orange County Supervisor of Elections in Orlando, Florida, is alleging the elections office lacks sufficient supervision of its ballots. Brian Freid, the whistleblower who was terminated from his post as information systems director last year, alleged that the election... | US Federal Elections |
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Federal workers were put on notice that a shutdown is immi... | US Congress |
No, Federal Home Loan Banks didn’t cause the SVB collapse
The Federal Home Loan Banks have been taking some heat for their eleventh-hour lending to Silvergate, Silicon Valley and Signature banks. We regulated and then represented these FHLBanks through 40 years of economic ups and downs, hearing time and time again uni... | US Federal Policies |
After years of inaction, the FCC this week said that it's finally going to protect consumers against a scam that takes control of their cell phone numbers by deceiving employees who work for mobile carriers. While commissioners congratulated themselves for the move, there’s little reason yet to believe it will stop a p... | US Federal Policies |
New income-driven student loan repayment plan available to borrowers
The Department of Education released a beta website on Monday for the Biden administration’s new income-driven student loan repayment plan, known as the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan.
“A beta version of the updated [Income-Driven Repaymen... | US Federal Policies |
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President Biden told reporters on Tuesday that he's worried about the fate of his $24 billion request for Ukraine aid.
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President Biden told reporters on Tuesday that he's worried about the fate of his $24 billion request for Ukraine aid.
Kevin Dietsch... | US Federal Policies |
The U.S. House is now led by an election denier extraordinaire
Mike Johnson is smart, friendly and conservative. He also tried helping Trump overturn the 2020 vote
Attempting to assist Donald Trump overturn an election is not a firing offence in the modern Republican Party.
In fact, it can land you a promotion.
The new... | US Congress |
Federal student loans have not accrued interest since March 2020 but will begin doing so again on Oct 1. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is moving forward on a series of new initiatives announced since the Supreme Court struck down its $400 billion student debt transfer in June.
“The work of the Biden-Harris admini... | US Federal Policies |
This week, Fox News reported on remarks by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The headline, “Jean-Pierre refuses to call anti-Israel protestors ‘extremists’ despite fear among Jewish students,” circulated the news that the Biden administration was refusing to denounce antisemitic extremists bullying Americ... | US Federal Policies |
Some House Republicans are not taking a liking to the conference's closed-door meetings to choose a new chamber speaker, even though that is typically the norm for such discussions.
House GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia have chirped on social media about their party's secluded meet... | US Congress |
It’s no exaggeration to say Jon Huntsman Jr. thought Wednesday’s third Republican presidential primary debate was a total waste of time.
“Let’s be honest,” he told me, before he’d even picked up the remote. “None of this matters.”
The 2012 Republican presidential candidate was never a big fan of televised debates to be... | US Federal Elections |
Sen. Ted Cruz took to Twitter on Thursday to express support for Sen. John Fetterman after he checked himself into the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to receive treatment for clinical depression.
Cruz, R-Texas, he and his wife Heidi would be praying for Fetterman, D-Penn., and urged people to put their po... | US Congress |
After Dr. Sarah Williams lost her husband Clarence to lung cancer in 2015, her grief was soon accompanied by financial worries about providing for their 9-year-old twins.
Affording basics like school supplies and field trips strained Williams' part-time professor salary in North Carolina for more than a year. Eventuall... | US Federal Policies |
More legal issues continue to plague Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo as a criminal complaint has been filed and referred to the Texas Rangers for investigation just a day after meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris.
The complaint stems from a press conference Hidalgo held earlier this month on November 10, the day... | US Political Corruption |
OPINION:
The current president of the United States represents everything that’s wrong with big government, an understanding of which could be the most important legacy of the dismal Biden years.
Under President Biden, our government continues to mutate. What started as a republic of limited powers based on the consent... | US Federal Policies |
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday asked a federal judge to bar former President Donald Trump from publicly discussing the testimony and credibility of potential witnesses or the evidence in his federal election interference trial in D.C.
The request came in the form of a motion that laid out many of Tru... | US Federal Elections |
An unnamed CIA whistleblower has made the dramatic allegation that half a dozen analysts there were bribed to reject the theory that COVID-19 resulted from a research-related leak of a new coronavirus, according to a press release today from the office of the Republican leading a congressional investigation into the pa... | US Congress |
- Republicans proposed giving Israel $14 billion, attached to $14 billion in IRS funding cuts.
- The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the proposal would cut revenue by $26 billion.
- Senate Democrats and the White House said they would reject the bill.
Republicans want to give Israel $14.3 billion — but onl... | US Federal Policies |
Trump drops suit against former lawyer Michael Cohen
The former president, facing a scheduling conflict with a campaign rally, ended his case seeking $500 million from the attorney who turned on him.
Former President Donald Trump late on Thursday abruptly dropped a lawsuit against his former personal lawyer Michael Coh... | US Political Corruption |
FBI seizes electronic devices of NYC Mayor Eric Adams
Mayor Eric Adams denies any wrongdoing.
The FBI seized the electronic devices of New York City Mayor Eric Adams as part of a federal investigation that previously brought the FBI to the home of his top fundraiser, a source familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The... | US Political Corruption |
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Trump Rallies are Tutorials in Hate, Vulgarity, and Disrespect
Children are absorbing terrifying lessons that will haunt us for generations.
“MOM, I DON’T THINK YOU SHOULD SEE THIS. You should leave the room.”
That was my younger son, age 7 or 8, purportedly trying to “protect” me years a... | US Political Corruption |
Shutdown averted? House passes short-term funding plan, sends to Senate
The House’s swiftly-approved plan is now with the Senate, which is meeting late on Saturday with just hours to go before the midnight deadline to fund the government.
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The threat of a federal government shutdown was suddenly easing Satu... | US Federal Policies |
Jim Jordan Pauses House Speaker Quest And Will Back McHenry As Interim
Republican Jim Jordan will back empowering Representative Patrick McHenry as a temporary speaker until January, giving the Trump loyalist time to try and build support to win the top House leadership spot, a person familiar with the matter said.
(Bl... | US Congress |
Supporters of an effort to get rid of Alaska’s ranked choice voting system are accused of "intentional deception" by failing to properly report their activities, including the involvement of Christian organization, according to allegations in a new complaint filed with state campaign finance watchdogs.
The group Alaska... | US Local Elections |
With former President Donald Trump out of the picture, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy will be center stage for the first Republican primary debate.
The two candidates will share the prime position based on their poll numbers, according to an official lineup shared by Fox News on Tuesday.
A super PAC supporting Trump,... | US Federal Elections |
It was hardly the triumphant return to Washington that he and his campaign imagined. Donald Trump was back in America’s capital this week, not as president but an accused criminal. “Not guilty,” he pleaded in a hushed courtroom to four charges stemming from the effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential ele... | US Federal Elections |
McCarthy Now Seeking Stopgap Spending Bill Without Funding Cuts
There were no immediate details on how much funding would be attached toward the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief fund.
(Bloomberg) -- House Republicans are tentatively planning to push a rushed vote Saturday on a temporary government ... | US Federal Policies |
President Joe Biden on Thursday offered a stark warning against the dangers posed by an “extremist” and antidemocratic Maga movement led by former president Donald Trump in remarks in Arizona paying tribute to late Republican senator John McCain.
Speaking in Tempe, Arizona, Mr Biden opened by quoting the farewell lette... | US Federal Policies |
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) said he is not concerned about President Joe Biden's chances in a hypothetical matchup against former President Donald Trump next year, claiming voters have "brain fog" about what the country was like under Trump.
Shapiro said he believes the general election will help lift that fog off voters ... | US Federal Elections |
At this point, I've contented myself with the notion of the inmates' running the asylum. The problem I have is that now the inmates are running not just the asylum, but the county commission, the zoning board, the licensing commission, the town council, the mayor's office, three of the town's four churches, and the loc... | US Congress |
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s drawing a line in the sand. Though her ally, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, is trying to rally the conference around a short-term funding measure to avoid a government shutdown this fall, the far-right Georgia Republican told constituents Thursday that she wouldn’t sign on to any such m... | US Congress |
January 21, 2023 03:57 PM You've probably heard about President Joe Biden's attempt to do an end-run around the courts that are now considering the legality of his executive order for lump-sum student debt forgiveness. He is now trying to shrink or eliminate payments for students who are in repayment. Those privileged ... | US Federal Policies |
A man identified as a suspect in the killings of three Los Angeles homeless men as they slept this week was already in custody in connection with another murder that occurred in nearby San Dimas, police said Saturday.
The suspect, identified as 33-year-old Los Angeles man Jerrid Joseph Powell, was behind bars on Saturd... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Watch John King’s full report from Iowa on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” at 8 p.m. ET.
The homes are nearly identical, dotting both sides of the curvy road in a middle-class subdivision. But one stands out: 10 solar panels newly attached to its sloping roof as the crew links the system to the electric meter. The finishin... | US Federal Elections |
On 16 or perhaps 17 July 2024, in Milwaukee, the Republican national convention will likely nominate as its presidential candidate a convicted criminal. When Donald Trump ascends the podium to accept the nomination for his third time he will probably have been found guilty months earlier of having staged an attempted c... | US Federal Elections |
Former Vice President Mike Pence said that he's done explaining for his ex-running mate after being pressed on former President Donald Trump's recent comments toward retired U.S. Army General Mike Milley.
During an appearance on CNN Friday night, anchor Kaitlan Collins asked the former vice president if he believed Mil... | US Federal Elections |
House Republicans said the Justice Department deviated from "standard processes" and gave Hunter Biden "special treatment" in its years-long federal investigation into him.
The House GOP's findings are laid out in an interim staff report released Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee, House Ways & Means Committee, a... | US Political Corruption |
Senate moves shutdown-prevention plan that’s ‘not gonna happen’ in House
The addition of some Ukraine aid to the bipartisan spending proposal has immediately imperiled the bill and irritated House Republicans, further risking a shutdown on Oct. 1.
The bipartisan Senate spending billreleased Tuesday is a direct confront... | US Congress |
- Rep. Tom Emmer is the latest GOP nominee for speaker of the House.
- If he wins, he could be a hurdle to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
- As of Tuesday afternoon, it didn't appear Emmer had the votes to win the gavel.
Rep. Tom Emmer is the latest Republican nominee for speaker of the House, and that could mean a fresh... | US Congress |
RNC chair calls on GOP candidates to adopt ‘common sense’ messaging on abortion
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel tried to paint the GOP as the “common sense” party on abortion and suggested Republican candidates ought to adhere to that message to win future elections.
In an interview on CNN’s “State o... | US Federal Elections |
ATLANTA -- The Georgia State Election Board is asking a judge to order a conservative voting organization to produce information to help investigate its claims of ballot trafficking in the state.
The Texas-based True the Vote group filed complaints with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in November 2021, in... | US Federal Elections |
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Tuesday took the unprecedented step of ousting a speaker from office, nearly nine months after Kevin McCarthy won the powerful gavel in a dramatic 15-round floor fight.
The vote was 216-210, to topple the California Republican. All 208 Democrats teamed up with just eight GOP... | US Congress |
The debate, televised without an audience and slower in pace than its 2024 Republican counterparts, allowed DeSantis to differentiate himself from his primary opponents and Newsom to introduce himself to a general election audience should he run for president in the future.
Here are the Washington Examiner's top four t... | US Federal Elections |
Several defendants in the Georgia election interference case have been approached about their interest in accepting plea deals, as the Fulton County district attorney seeks to pare back the pool of defendants and pick up cooperators ahead of potential trials, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Only one of t... | US Political Corruption |
FIRST ON FOX: A decorated military veteran and successful Republican businessman in Montana who’s considering a run for the Senate in 2024 against Sen. Jon Tester is taking aim at the Democratic incumbent over his comment that U.S. "farted around in the Middle East forever."
The comment is’t sitting well with Tim Sheeh... | US Federal Elections |
Washington — The Senate is expected to vote on a stopgap funding bill on Wednesday that would punt a spending fight until early next year.
The House, known as a continuing resolution, Tuesday night, sending it to the Senate ahead of a Friday deadline. Without a funding extension, the government is set to shutdown Satur... | US Congress |
Nine members of the "Los Chapitos" faction of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury for fentanyl trafficking the agency announced in a news statement on Tuesday. A tenth individual, a leader of Clan del Golfo, one of Colombia's most significant cocaine cartels, was also sanctioned.
Today's action... | US Federal Policies |
Pennsylvania Republicans are criticizing Governor Josh Shapiro over his handling of sexual harassment allegations made against one of his top aides who recently resigned.
Several female Republican lawmakers, led by Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, have questioned why the aide was allowed to remain in his position... | US Political Corruption |
Danelo Cavalcante was convicted of murder charges in August for brutally stabbing his former girlfriend to death in front of her children.
Less than two weeks after receiving a life sentence, the 34-year-old sparked fresh terror as he broke free from a Pennsylvania jail.
A massive manhunt is now underway to locate Cava... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The budget cuts that House Republicans are demanding in their high-stakes debt-ceiling standoff with President Joe Biden sharpen the overlapping generational and racial conflict moving to the center of U.S. politics.
The House GOP’s blueprint would focus its spending cuts on the relatively small slice of the federal bu... | US Federal Policies |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that House Republicans have chosen Majority Leader Steve S... | US Congress |
Among the hotel patrons snarled in the fallout of MGM Resorts' cyberattack was -- unfortunately for the company -- one very high-profile figure: Lina Khan, the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission. Bloomberg News: On Tuesday night, she was among the 45 people waiting to check in at the MGM Grand along the Las Vegas... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
You have probably heard people say before that the next election will be “the most consequential of our lifetime.”
Matt Bennett, co-founder of Third Way, a national think-tank that champions modern center-left ideas, tells The New Abnormal that it is an overused term—unless you are referring to the 2024 presidential el... | US Federal Elections |
Trump asks appeals court to lift gag order imposed on him in 2020 election interference case
Former President Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court to lift a gag order restricting his speech about potential witnesses, prosecutors and court staff in the case that accuses him of scheming to overturn his 2020 ele... | US Federal Policies |
Is it a psyop? A government cover-up? Aliens have entered mainstream discourse again, but it’s hard not to question the motives behind how this information is being fed to us – and why
The US government is stashing dead alien bodies in its congressional closet, or at least that’s what whistleblower David Grusch wants u... | US Federal Policies |
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