Attorney General Todd Blanche dismissed criticism that he is mixing official business with electoral politics after a Justice Department event in South Carolina with Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC). “This is not my first trip here,” Blanche told reporters on Thursday. “I missed you last time, I’m sorry.” Blanche, who was President Donald Trump’s personal attorney […]
Illinois Catholic hospitals and religious healthcare workers can’t be penalized for refusing to inform terminally ill patients of assisted suicide options, a new court order ruled. The Medical Aid in Dying bill, signed into law on Dec. 12, 2025, by Gov. JB Pritzker, allows terminally ill patients who meet specific qualifications to receive medication to […]
Abdul el Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, will get some help with his outreach to the Jewish community, including private events attended by Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) and two other Jewish Democrats. The events, organized by Michigan Jews for Democracy, represent the latest attempt to ease voter concerns over el Sayed, whose […]
The public will be able to watch the recently scheduled firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed on Thursday. Hasan, a former U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, was convicted and sentenced to death for killing 13 people and wounding 32 others at a military base in Fort Hood, […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (R-NY) said on Thursday that Republicans were wasting money by targeting two House seats held by vulnerable Democrats in the state of New York. “Republicans are desperately spending money in places all across the country, including in Long Island, in a fruitless effort to try and defeat Democratic incumbents while […]
A man armed with a pistol and a knife was shot and killed by a security guard at a federal courthouse in Nashville on Thursday morning. The man has not been identified by police, but he was reportedly in his 40s and from out of state. He attempted to bypass a security checkpoint at the […]
A federal judge extended a temporary order barring the White House from revoking access to CNN, MS Now, and Politico on Thursday, as he considered arguments from both the media and the Trump administration over the legality of the White House ban on journalists from those three outlets. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, an appointee […]
Barack Obama was handed the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for promising to change the world. Obama had been president for less than eight months. He had ended no major wars, negotiated no historic peace settlements, and delivered little beyond soaring rhetoric about international cooperation. None of that stopped the Norwegian Nobel Committee from awarding […]
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) cast doubt on the idea that the United States and Iran are nearing a deal, sharing insights on Thursday into a conversation he had with a Qatari diplomat during his trip to the Middle East. “The deal does not sound imminent, but the parameters are likely pretty skimpy,” Murphy said during […]
The Justice Department is investigating former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for allegedly lying to Congress in her testimony to the House Jan. 6 Committee in 2022. Hutchinson’s testimony before the defunct House select committee in June 2022, which included some of the most damaging accounts about President Donald Trump’s actions leading up to […]
