Virginia lawmakers averted a shutdown in the commonwealth by agreeing to, and passing into law, a budget for the state after gridlock earlier in the year. Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) signed a budget into law on Monday that compromised with Democratic leadership in the state House and Senate. Youngkin was able to prevent any increases […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) came out in strong defense of Donald Trump as the former president returned to a New York courthouse for the fifth week of his hush money trial, with the top House Republican decrying the charges as being politically motivated and corrupt. Trump entered the Manhattan Criminal Court while being flanked by […]
A judge on Tuesday sentenced activist Lauren Handy to four years and nine months in prison for leading a blockade at an abortion clinic in Washington, D.C., in 2020. Handy, 30, was convicted by a jury last year of two charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act after she and nine others […]
EXCLUSIVE — The CEO of Rep. David Trone’s (D-MD) Total Wine & More family business sent an email Monday to the company’s employees encouraging them to vote in the Tuesday Maryland primary, noting the lawmaker informed staff members it’s “important that you put democracy in action and vote for your candidate!” Trone, co-owner of the […]
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani asked social media users to call his former employer, WABC radio, to ask if it supports free speech after his show was taken off the air last week. Giuliani was recently suspended and later fired by the station over his repeated claims that the 2020 presidential election was […]
Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Texas announced Friday they had discovered and captured nearly $500,000 worth of cocaine hidden in a haul of cotton candy. The incident took place Thursday after at least one CBP officer in the Laredo area spotted an incoming tractor-trailer that was marked for transporting the common carnival […]
Federal prosecutors are calling on the judge overseeing Steve Bannon’s contempt case to order the former Trump adviser to start his four-month prison sentence as soon as possible. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the basis for Bannon’s appeal on all grounds, prompting prosecutors to call on Judge Carl […]
Derrick Evans, who served a three-month prison sentence for participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol, is challenging Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV) for the Republican nomination in Tuesday’s West Virginia primary. Evans served in the West Virginia statehouse for a little over a year, from Dec. 1, 2020, to Jan. 9, 2021, when […]
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted the “scam” hush money trial against him as his ex-attorney and former fixer Michael Cohen took the stand for more questioning from prosecutors. Moments before entering the courtroom, Trump was flanked by Republican allies as he read aloud quotes from several conservative legal analysts and argued the hush […]
Former President Donald Trump is bringing a posse of key GOP players to his Manhattan hush money trial on Tuesday as Michael Cohen is set to testify for a second day. Trump has made his hush money trial a new destination for Republicans to gather to show their support for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. […]
