An ex-Senate staffer has come forward with allegations that she was sexually assaulted by a former aide to onetime House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). A police report obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle details Zahra Hajee’s accusations against Kevin Ortiz. Hajee, a former aide to San Francisco City Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, has also worked for […]
President Joe Biden appears to be running out the clock ahead of the Democratic National Convention after the dam on his political future bent but didn’t break following House Democratic caucus meetings and calls with frontliners concerned about Biden’s candidacy for November. Nine House Democrats and one senator, Peter Welch (D-VT), have publicly called on […]
Opening statements began Wednesday in the involuntary manslaughter trial of actor Alec Baldwin nearly three years after he fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the film Rust. The defense and prosecution began cross-examination of the trial’s first witnesses including law enforcement witnesses. The first witness cross-examined by defense attorney Alex […]
Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) became the first Democratic senator to call on President Joe Biden to step aside as the Democratic nominee on Wednesday night. The Vermont senator, in an op-ed in the Washington Post, asked Biden to step aside with “the national conversation” “focused on Biden’s age and capacity.” “I, like folks across the country, […]
An MS-13 gang leader in New York pleaded guilty to racketeering in a case involving the murders of eight people, including the brutal 2016 murders of two high school girls. Alexi Saenz, 29, admitted in his plea deal that he was responsible for ordering the murders of eight people. New York prosecutors had previously decided […]
Senate Republicans are looking to present a united front at the national convention next week, even as a small faction of the conference in the upper chamber is not planning to attend. A number of GOP senators who have either openly feuded with former President Donald Trump or have not been his biggest fans confirmed […]
A media coalition is under the spotlight in a new report from the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee for allegedly censoring conservatives and, in the telling of the Republican majority, violating antitrust law. The report, released Wednesday, zeroes in on the influence of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, a “cross-industry initiative established by the World […]
President Joe Biden’s appearance to voters as “trustworthy” sharply declined after delivering an incoherent performance during the first presidential debate, a new survey revealed. Thirty-six percent of people view Biden as “honest and trustworthy,” according to a YouGov poll from this week. That number is a precipitous drop from 46% of voters who felt that […]
Donald Trump can move forward with subpoenaing a lawyer who publicly claimed to have met with the judge who oversaw the former president’s civil fraud trial, according to a court order. Judge Arthur Engoron denied portions of Trump’s subpoena but determined that it was “not wholly without merit,” the judge wrote in the order, filed […]
Actor Michael Douglas, a longtime supporter and fundraiser for President Joe Biden, expressed during a Wednesday appearance on ABC’s The View that he was ‘deeply, deeply concerned” about the president’s cognitive health. “Do you agree for calls for him to step aside? Even Nancy Pelosi seems on the fence about him stepping aside,” co-host Joy […]
