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Assassination attempt: Secret Service will not give ‘real-time updates’ on disciplinary action

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe vowed on Friday to provide “high-level” information on any disciplinary action he takes against agency employees over the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Rowe said, however, that he would not give “real-time updates” because of the internal nature of employee matters. Rowe’s remarks came as part of […]

Hunter Biden sentencing set for November

Hunter Biden’s sentencing for his felony gun case is set for Nov. 13. Biden made history in June, becoming the first son of a sitting president to be criminally convicted over three charges related to a 2018 gun purchase. He was convicted of lying on a federal form about his drug use to purchase a […]

Virginia attorney general demands answers about suspected ‘dummy accounts’ donating to Democrats

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares demanded answers about suspicious donor activity on ActBlue, a Democratic political action committee. In July, conservative activists sounded the alarm on suspicious donations made through ActBlue, including some cases in which single donors made tens of thousands of separate donations worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Miyares said Monday that […]

Senators introduce bipartisan bill to end military draft

Democratic and Republican senators have come together to introduce legislation that will put an end to the military draft. The bill, introduced by Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), would repeal the Military Selective Service Act first passed in 1917 at the height of World War I. The law required all […]

DC voters to decide on ranked choice voting in November

The District of Columbia Board of Elections has certified for November’s ballot Initiative 83, which would establish ranked choice voting in Washington, D.C., and allow independents to vote in primary elections. The Board of Elections on Friday cleared the way for the initiative to appear on the Nov. 5 general election ballot after the Yes […]

Trump questions wisdom of debating Harris: ‘Everybody knows me’

Former President Donald Trump cast doubts over the merits of debating Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday, as the saga between the political duo continues.  While the GOP nominee said he still wants to debate Harris, Trump indicated doing so held little political gain for his campaign during an interview with Fox Business host Maria […]

Justice Department sues TikTok over child privacy law violations

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against social media platform TikTok over its alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The Justice Department, in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, claimed TikTok has “collected extensive data” on children under the age of 13 and […]

Harris veepstakes enters homestretch as contenders cancel plans

The Democrats vying to become Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate are preparing for a final decision as soon as this weekend before a public kickoff of the new ticket early next week. Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA), one of the top running mate contenders, scrapped plans to hold a fundraising tour in the Hamptons over […]

Harris strategy and staff recycles Obama’s 2008 playbook

While many people celebrated New Year’s Eve in 2007 with ambitions to overcome the financial crisis, then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris spent the holiday at then-Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign headquarters. Obama ran a successful 2008 presidential campaign, becoming the first black president and winning in a landslide against then-Sen. John McCain. Harris witnessed […]

Bragg urges judge to deny Trump’s recusal request despite daughter’s tie to Kamala Harris

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked Judge Juan Merchan to deny Donald Trump’s request that the judge recuse himself from the former president’s hush money case, according to a court letter made public on Friday. Prosecutors for Bragg argued that Vice President Kamala Harris becoming Trump’s 2024 election opponent was an irrelevant detail, despite Harris enlisting […]
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