Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) hit back at Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger after the rock star threw a jab at him. At a Thursday night concert, Jagger, 80, made a quip that Landry wanted to return the world to the Stone Age, a common accusation against Republicans by their opponents. Landry used the wording to […]
A Georgia Senate committee investigating Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis held a hearing on Friday during which lawmakers scrutinized Willis’s use of taxpayer dollars. The hearing marked the third of the year for the special committee, and it featured witnesses Robb Pitts and Sharon Whitmore, two Fulton County officials who spoke about Willis’s history […]
The White House was repeatedly pressed Friday about offering a presidential pardon to former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. Mosby faces up to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of perjury and mortgage fraud, but says the convictions are related to her decision to charge police officers involved in Freddie Gray’s death in […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) defended the right to protest in a Friday video, crediting nonviolent protests for much of the progress American society has made historically. Sanders made his stance clear in a post to X amid reports of pro-Palestinian protests across the country, with some resulting in on-campus encampments. From the beginning of these […]
The Republican National Committee, former President Donald Trump‘s campaign, and the Nevada Republican Party announced a lawsuit on Friday suing the Silver State over its allowance of mail ballots four days after Election Day. The move is part of the RNC and Trump campaign’s election integrity efforts ahead of and through the Nov. 5 election […]
The United Kingdom will hold a national election by the end of January 2025. The latest polling data, and local council election results on Friday, suggest that the center-left Labour Party opposition will unseat the governing center-right Conservative Party and win a massive majority in Parliament. But spoilers lurk. One such spoiler comes in the […]
In 1994, I represented a Colorado Springs, Colorado, businessman, a college dropout who found his niche bidding on and building guardrails on federal and state highway projects. Randy Pech developed a statewide reputation for having a sharp pencil, leaving behind well-built projects, and timely completion of subcontract awards. That is, until a day when a bid he […]
An incident during the New York Police Department’s raid at Columbia University is under review after an officer accidentally fired his weapon. The shot was fired when police entered Hamilton Hall, which had been taken over by pro-Palestinian protesters. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office spokesman Doug Cohen confirmed to the City in a statement […]
Abortion appears on track to be on the ballot in another Republican state after activists say they have gathered an overwhelming number of signatures. Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, an abortion-rights group in Missouri, says it has garnered more than 380,000 signatures for a ballot measure to enshrine abortion into the state’s constitution. The group said […]
A hacking group associated with Russia’s military intelligence agency attacked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s political party and “some Czech institutions,” according to Western officials and NATO. “We can attribute this cyberattack to a group called APT28, which is steered by the military intelligence service of Russia,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told reporters on Friday. […]
