Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) has restored voting rights to 66,085 Virginians with previous felony convictions since taking office, she announced Friday. Virginia’s constitution automatically and permanently strips voting rights of all convicted felons, making them ineligible to perform duties such as voting or serving on a jury after they complete their prison sentence. The one […]
The Indiana Republican leader in the state Senate announced on Friday that he will not seek reelection to his leadership position after President Donald Trump successfully primaried several of his colleagues to buck his redistricting agenda. Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray’s defiant opposition to Trump’s mid-decade redistricting agenda attracted the president’s full fury last […]
Washington Examiner Justice Department reporter Kaelan Deese said tension in the Senate over acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination could still lead to a full vote. “Ultimately, it seems like that there is more broad Republican support for Blanche,” Deese said on Fox News’s LiveNow streaming network. Blanche’s confirmation appears to depend on support from […]
Authorities are searching for a transgender-identifying man accused of bombing an immigration facility during Black Lives Matter riots six summers ago. Ronald Watson allegedly joined a mob of black-clothed radicals in 2020 who demolished the building’s interior in Atlanta, Georgia, but the FBI did not tie him to the incident until his 2023 conviction in […]
President Donald Trump and his administration are using scenes from the Spanish territory of Ceuta to warn that the tidal wave of illegal immigrants surging across the border could be the United States if Democrats are reelected. Ceuta, which borders Morocco on the northern coast of Africa, has been deluged with approximately 60,000 illegal immigrants […]
President Donald Trump apportioned responsibility to the “grossly incompetent” state government of Minnesota and its “corrupt” Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for a suspected, but not confirmed, Iranian cyberattack on its water systems. Trump made the comments during a televised Cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday. “I just want to mention that we heard in […]
A small town in southeast Colorado has been declared abandoned by Colorado’s secretary of state after the entire board of trustees resigned, leaving the 30 remaining residents with no elected officials. Hartman, Colorado, is located near the Kansas border and has been unable to hold an election since January, leaving no leadership to manage the […]
President Donald Trump offered some words of praise to the White House press corps covering his second administration during a Cabinet meeting on Friday. “I want to thank a lot of the media people because many of you have been very, very fair,” Trump said while speaking at Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. “That’s […]
Preservationists filed a motion on Thursday asking a federal judge to block the Trump administration from painting the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. Cultural Heritage Partners filed a renewed motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the administration from testing samples of white paint on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which sits next […]
Democrats in Maine faced a barrage of attacks for supporting former Senate candidate Graham Platner, who was plagued by scandals that eventually crescendoed with sexual assault allegations from a previous romantic partner. Then came Troy Jackson, the former gubernatorial candidate, who swooped in as the party’s choice to take on incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) […]
