Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) will lead the 13-member bipartisan task force charged with investigating the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and exposing the security failures that led up to it at his Butler, Pennsylvania, rally. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) announced the seven House Republicans and six […]
Hunter Biden’s attorneys defended themselves in a court filing on Sunday after a judge in California accused them of making false statements and threatened them with sanctions. Mark Geragos and Abbe Lowell, who are leading Biden’s defense in his tax case, said that “context matters” regarding their inaccurate claim that David Weiss did not bring charges against Biden until […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is pushing for a regular audit of the Internal Revenue Service after a new inspector general report found that nearly 6,000 employees owe nearly $50 million in back taxes. The July 24 report, requested by Ernst and conducted by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, found that while 96% of […]
Civic leader Alma Powell has died at the age of 86, about three years after her husband’s death in 2021. Her death was confirmed by Peggy Cifrino, a spokeswoman for the family. Powell’s three children, Michael Powell, Linda Powell, and Annemarie Powell, described their mother as “the grounding force of our family.” “During childhoods marked […]
Wisconsin Republican lawmakers are backing two referendums that would take away the spending powers of the governor and place them in the state legislature. Voters will decide on related constitutional amendments that would change how Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) and all future governors of the state are allowed to spend federal money the state receives […]
Leonard Leo, the conservative co-chairman of the Federalist Society legal group, argued Monday that President Joe Biden‘s sweeping plans to reform the Supreme Court should extend to where the “real corruption” lies — within the halls of Congress. Biden’s proposal on Monday called for limiting Supreme Court justices’ terms to a maximum of 18 years […]
When President Joe Biden slipped in the polls after his disastrous debate, several states seemed to be falling out of reach for Democrats, but with Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket, some Democrats are feeling sunny about their chances in some non-battleground states. Florida has steadily headed toward Republicans in recent […]
Elon Musk, tech mogul and X owner, is facing backlash after reposting a fake video on X that uses artificial intelligence to mimic Vice President Kamala Harris’s voice. Musk is being accused of breaching his own social media platform’s policies by posting the video, which insults Harris’s campaign and President Joe Biden. The controversy stems […]
Three Senate Democrats levied concerns about the Department of Education’s new centralized platform for servicing federal student loans in a letter on Monday to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) sent the letter questioning the transparency of the Unified Servicing and Data Solution system, which […]
Republicans are asking why Google‘s auto-populated search terms aren’t suggesting the shooting of former President Donald Trump when users search for “attempted assassination.” When someone goes to Google to search “assassination attempt,” despite Trump being the most recent victim of such violence, his name isn’t suggested as one of the search results. Other assassination attempts […]
