The Justice Department on Wednesday placed two prosecutors on leave after they filed a legal brief describing the people on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, as “a mob of rioters,” and connecting President Donald Trump to the 2023 doxxing of former President Barack Obama‘s house. Assistant U.S. attorneys Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White were […]
Virginia residents are casting ballots in a handful of days for myriad closely watched races from the governor’s office to the House of Delegates, as Republicans and Democrats battle to tilt the balance of power in the state. The GOP hopes to capitalize on a political trend toward red in the Old Dominion that they […]
House GOP leadership has leaned into attacking New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at their daily government shutdown press conference. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), referencing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) endorsement of Mamdani last week, said this “dangerous ideology” is what is “motivating them” in reference to the government shutdown. As Republicans […]
Senate Democrats are holding a press conference on Wednesday afternoon to urge President Donald Trump to use the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency fund to support the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as food benefits are set to run out for more than 42 million Americans by Nov. 1 due to the government shutdown. The effort […]
Michael Alfonso, the son-in-law of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, announced Wednesday that he is running for Congress in Wisconsin’s 7th district. Alfonso is the grandson of Cuban citizens who fled their home country for the United States at the end of the Cuban Revolution. In his announcement video, he says his parents moved to the […]
President Donald Trump first brought up the idea of a 2028 Vance-Rubio ticket privately about six months ago, Vice President JD Vance revealed Wednesday. Vance said Trump mentioned the ticket idea during a private lunch between the two officials, noting that he has “joked with” Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the concept since his […]
The Kremlin‘s special envoy, tasked with smoothing economic quarrels with the White House, has maintained that peace is on the horizon in Ukraine despite a disastrous tour of the United States. Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s special presidential representative for investment and economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, was asked at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia whether there […]
Following the Republican-controlled Senate’s rebuke of his tariffs, President Donald Trump appears to be losing leverage in trying to get some Senate GOP detractors to comply with his agenda. On Tuesday, Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined Democrats in opposing Trump’s national emergency […]
The full bench on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will review the legality of President Donald Trump‘s federalization and deployment of the National Guard to Portland, tossing out the short-lived win that a three-judge panel on the court had handed the president last week. The full appeals court announced in a […]
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger counts more billionaires, Washington, D.C.-based donors, and out-of-state residents among her financial supporters than Republican nominee Lieutenant Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, public records show. Just 47% of donations to Spanberger’s gubernatorial campaign came from Virginia residents as of the end of September, according to public records compiled by the Virginia […]
