Mike Schmidt, the district attorney for Multnomah County in Oregon who was criticized for being too “soft on crime,” lost his primary race to one of his own deputy prosecutors. Schmidt was defeated by Nathan Vasquez, who garnered about 54% of the vote as of Wednesday evening. Schmidt’s defeat could serve as a bellwether for […]
The Federal Bureau of Prisons will go on trial over guards’ sexual abuse of female inmates at a since-closed California prison. FCI Dublin was one of six all-female prisons with the BOP and became infamous for widespread allegations of sexual abuse and coverups by staff against inmates. On Wednesday, in the first hearing since the […]
Conservative British legislator Craig Mackinlay returned to work on Wednesday, six months after his hands and feet were amputated due to sepsis. The United Kingdom’s House of Commons joined in a standing ovation for Mackinlay during the weekly prime minister’s question session. Mackinlay said he wants to be known as “the bionic MP” and plans […]
A Democrat who recently won their primary in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, a swing district, previously supported a passed ballot measure that decriminalized drugs in the area. Oregon state Rep. Janelle Bynum voiced her support for Measure 110, which, after being passed in November 2020, decriminalized most possession of controlled substances. That ballot measure passed […]
It was a thoroughly British affair: damp, badly staged, and half-arsed. The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, took advantage of what looked like a break in the rain to emerge from No. 10 and announce that there would be a general election on July 4. As he spoke, the downpour began again in earnest, soaking his […]
A fight between Arizona Republican House primary opponents Blake Masters and Abraham Hamadeh is heating up after the leaking of private texts between the two. On Wednesday, the Daily Mail published texts between Masters and Hamadeh sent in 2023, during Hamadeh’s run for the Arizona attorney general position, a race he narrowly lost. In the […]
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) had his “offensive words” about former President Donald Trump‘s New York criminal cases struck from the congressional record on Wednesday after Republicans became angry over his remarks, the second time in as many weeks that House proceedings have taken a chaotic turn. The Rules Committee ranking member delivered opening remarks during […]
Election officials in Florida are concerned that Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) new ballot rule could force them to break existing laws in the Sunshine State. State election officials gathered for their summer meeting, which also included Secretary of State Cord Byrd and other top officials. Many of the election supervisors voiced their concerns that the […]
The Justice Department under the Biden administration was more aggressive when pursuing former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case than previously known, according to newly released court filings. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday unsealed hundreds of documents related to Trump’s 40-count federal indictment in Florida over his handling of sensitive records […]
Emails uncovered by House Republicans from the senior adviser to former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci may implicate him in knowledge of the destruction of government documents related to the origins of COVID-19. The private Gmail communications from David Morens, who worked under Fauci since 1998, have become a […]
