State legislators will descend on Maryland’s capital in an August special session to remove a key constitutional hurdle preventing Democrats from picking up a GOP congressional seat. The Maryland General Assembly, which comprises both the state House of Representatives and Senate, will meet several months after the Supreme Court ruled that the Voting Rights Act […]
A federal appeals court on Tuesday closely questioned whether the first Trump administration in 2017 went too far in expanding religious exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, hearing arguments in the latest chapter of the decadelong legal battle involving the Little Sisters of the Poor. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of […]
An illegal immigrant was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston on Tuesday following a traffic stop that led to an alleged vehicle ramming. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, was stopped by ICE officers “as part of a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien” when Araujo attempted […]
Comedian and “independent space warrior” Count Binface hails from a long line of British joke candidates. Real-name Jonathan Harvey, Count Binface made his political debut in 2017, then known as “Lord Buckethead,” before he was forced to change his campaigning name to Count Binface after running into copyright issues. Count Binface is famous for wearing […]
The Maine Democratic Party could be without a candidate soon if Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner withdraws his bid in the wake of a new sexual assault allegation against him. Platner, who was accused by a woman he dated of sexually assaulting her while drunk five years ago, is under pressure from Democrats across the […]
EXCLUSIVE — Jake Johnson, a Democrat fighting to oust a Republican incumbent in a red-leaning district, plans on opposing increasing the debt ceiling and aiming to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, while vowing not to cut Medicare and Social Security, according to a policy platform first shared with the Washington Examiner. Johnson outlined his […]
Michigan Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul el Sayed displayed strong public support for defunding the police in 2020 despite denying he backed the movement, according to reported interviews from that year. El Sayed is heading into a heated Democratic primary to replace outgoing Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) and has faced backlash over previous posts he made […]
A federal judge in Georgia decided on Tuesday to quash a grand jury subpoena that the Department of Justice obtained in seeking the names and personal contact information of people who helped administer the 2020 election in Fulton County. U.S. District Judge William Ray, whom President Donald Trump appointed in 2018, delivered the ruling against […]
The Maine Democratic Socialists of America is washing its hands of Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner, stressing it never supported his candidacy. “To set the record straight: we never endorsed Platner,” the Maine DSA wrote in a Tuesday statement on X. “He is not a DSA candidate. We only endorsed Troy Jackson for the Primary.” […]
The United States Treasury Department on Tuesday rescinded temporary sanctions waivers that permitted Iran to export oil after Tehran attacked three ships in the Strait of Hormuz, raising new concerns about maritime security and threatening a fragile peace agreement with Washington. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control’s decision ends a 60-day general license […]
