California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra is leading the race for governor despite a record-breaking spending blitz from fellow Democrat Tom Steyer. Becerra, the former California attorney general and Biden administration health secretary, and Republican Steve Hilton, a former Fox News contributor, sit atop a crowded field of candidates heading into next week’s California primary, […]
EXCLUSIVE — Two education watchdogs, Defending Education and Do No Harm, filed a joint complaint with the Justice Department’s Office of Civil Rights on Thursday, alleging that Oregon has illegally considered race in its education funding policies. The Oregon Department of Education requires that 65% of a charter school’s student body be from a minority […]
The United States and Israel’s war with Iran triggered a massive repression campaign, with Iranian authorities arbitrarily arresting at least 6,000 people since Feb. 28, a new human rights report said. Among those arrested on a whim were protesters, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, dissidents, and members of ethnic and religious minorities, a report from […]
Washington Examiner columnist Salena Zito said President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the Senate race was part of a strategy. “I think Trump understood that there was just a wave of movement conservatives behind Paxton,” Zito said on the Hugh Hewitt Show Wednesday. Paxton defeated four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) […]
President Donald Trump filed an amended complaint in his defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal in an effort to prove that the reporters published a birthday letter Trump allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein with actual malice. Obama-appointed judge Darrin P. Gayles of the Southern District of Florida had dismissed Trump’s original complaint in the […]
EXCLUSIVE — Washington, D.C. mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George has floated the policy of opening safe injection sites in the district to help relieve its opioid overdose crisis. Safe injection sites, sometimes called overdose prevention centers, are places where people can go to use illegal drugs under professional supervision. The facilities are aimed at creating […]
President Donald Trump publicly praised three major American corporations on the same day or the day after he had bought tens of thousands of dollars of their stocks, according to recently reported financial disclosures. Trump’s first-quarter investment filings, submitted late this month to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, show that the president purchased stock […]
A district court judge denied a request on Thursday by Senate Democrats for an injunction to block an executive order issued by President Donald Trump regarding mail-in voting and citizenship lists. The request was rejected on the grounds that the request did not show “that preliminary injunctive relief is warranted.” U.S. District Judge Carl J. […]
President Donald Trump will soon find out whether he has a new wild card to worry about in the Senate after helping send John Cornyn (R-TX) into an early retirement. Cornyn on Tuesday became the second incumbent to lose his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, handing Senate leadership another lame duck with no incentive to back Trump […]
The Texas GOP’s decision to nominate Attorney General Ken Paxton over longtime Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is reigniting one of the Democratic Party’s most persistent political debates: whether Texas is finally becoming competitive enough to justify a massive Senate investment. Democrats immediately celebrated Paxton’s victory as a possible turning point, arguing the embattled attorney general […]
