The Supreme Court refused to hear two appeal cases that sought to overturn sanctions imposed on lawyers who were allied with former President Donald Trump in 2020. The sanctions, which were partially upheld by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, were the result of a lawsuit in Michigan that alleged the results of the […]
State Department officials privately took aim at a roughly $1 million grant to support investigations into alleged human rights abuses in Israel after the agency defended it, emails show. The State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor announced in February 2022 it would award cash to nonprofit organizations to “strengthen accountability and human […]
The White House is calling for additional national security funding, warning that “when dictators aren’t stopped, they keep going.” Efforts to secure additional funding for the war in Ukraine received a boost after Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died in jail last week. President Joe Biden immediately ascribed blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin and promised […]
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan impressed in the polls last week when he announced his bid for the Senate, but the Republican could quickly become an unpopular candidate among state voters who are looking to enshrine abortion rights in Maryland’s constitution this November. Hogan, who finished his tenure as governor last year, has presented himself […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is calling for federal regulators to stop Capital One from buying its competitor Discover, calling the deal “dangerous.” The all-stock deal was announced on Monday. The massive buyout would cost $35 billion and result in the largest U.S. credit card company by loan volume. While shares of Discover surged in response […]
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign released a memo Tuesday declaring Saturday’s Republican primary in South Carolina as “the end” of former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign. Trump senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles authored the new memo, titled “The End Is Near For Nikki Haley,” in which they state that South Carolina’s nominating […]
Georgia families who receive assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will see their final direct payments for the month of February over the next three days. Food stamps are sent out from Feb. 5-23 in the Peach State. SNAP payments will be issued to beneficiaries’ accounts on days depending on the last two digits of their client ID […]
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) deleted a social media post that accused a man suspected of being one of the shooters at the Kansas City Chiefs parade of being an “illegal alien.” In a previous post on X, the Tennessee congressman shared a photo of a man in a red jumpsuit and wrote that “one of […]
Former President Donald Trump‘s adviser Peter Navarro was threatened on Tuesday with contempt for defying a judge’s order to return stacks of presidential records to the National Archives. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered Navarro to return dozens of records he had argued were his personal documents and did not need to be returned to […]
With abortion rights on up to nearly a quarter of state ballots this November, many groups are worried that funding is too tight to campaign successfully in all of them. In ultra-conservative states such as Arkansas and South Dakota, even large-scale national donors are slim. Because of how conservative the states are, donors said they […]
