The Knights of Columbus Petersburg Council 694 in Virginia filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against the National Park Service after officials refused to allow the Catholic group to hold its annual Memorial Day Mass in Poplar Grove National Cemetery. First Liberty Institute and the international law firm McGuireWoods […]
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) and the Washington Commanders are in talks to establish their first meeting since the Montana Republican took his fight public to have the football team restore its old Redskins logo of a Native American chief. Daines is blocking swift approval of a House-passed bill that would greenlight Washington, D.C., taking control […]
NEW YORK — Attorneys in Donald Trump’s hush money trial argued Tuesday over what instructions a judge will give the jury tasked with deciding the former president’s fate, and defense attorneys repeatedly emphasized that the instructions must say Trump had to have acted willfully to be convicted. Trump attorney Emil Bove’s requests had a common […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said resettling Gaza was “never in the cards” for what would happen once Israel’s war against Hamas concludes. The Israeli leader has faced criticism from other government and military officials about the seeming lack of forward planning for the “day after,” while ultraconservative members of his own party have called […]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken lamented the revelation that President Joe Biden had threatened to withhold some arms shipments to Israel amid a wider debate about whether such conditions help Hamas. “Leaks are an unfortunate part of the business that we’re all engaged in,” Blinken said during a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Tuesday. “It’s […]
President Joe Biden’s approval rating has reached its lowest level in two years, tying his record. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday found that just 36% of people approve of Biden’s job as president, tying his record low-performance rating in July 2022. The new rating is a decrease of 2 percentage points from one month prior. […]
Rudy Giuliani has pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges for his alleged role in recruiting electors to declare that former President Donald Trump won Arizona during the 2020 election. He was one of 11 people charged by the state to plead not guilty. The charges of conspiracy, fraud, and forgery Giuliani face come in addition […]
Voters in five states are heading to the ballot box to cast their ballots in congressional and judicial races. Voters in Kentucky and Oregon will also be voting for their presidential nominees in the Democratic and Republican primaries. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both secured the required number of delegates to become […]
EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) released an open letter to university presidents on Tuesday expressing his “profound concern” with the wave of antisemitism at college campuses. University administrators have come under growing GOP scrutiny for their handling of pro-Palestinian protests that have at times devolved into vandalism and acts of harassment against Jewish students. […]
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) announced on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with a skull tumor and will undergo surgery to have it removed. Murphy, a doctor himself, said he has the “utmost faith in my physicians and surgeons” to remove the tumor, which is called a pituitary macroadenoma. Though it is thought to be […]
