A 21-year-old intern for Rep. Ron Estes (R-KS) was killed in a shooting in Washington, D.C., on Monday night. The intern, Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, joined Estes’s office in June. He is a resident of Granby, Massachusetts, and is attending college at UMass Amherst. He will be a senior this fall. Police found Tarpinian-Jachym along with a woman and […]

Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias has lost his bid to thwart a Kansas law banning foreign actors from funneling money into state-level ballot initiatives. In May, the Elias Law Group, the eponymous law firm of the election attorney, jointly filed a federal lawsuit challenging the ban, enacted as H.B. 2106, on behalf of the foreign-funded […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) lambasted Paramount Global’s decision on Wednesday to settle with President Donald Trump for $16 million over editing choices in CBS News’s 60 Minutes election special that made former Vice President Kamala Harris look more favorable. Sanders claimed independent media were under attack following the settlement of Trump’s lawsuit. “It is a […]

President Donald Trump’s looming tariffs on Mexican tomatoes have Republicans divided.  A 21% tariff on tomato imports from Mexico is set to take effect later this month, as the Trump administration believes doing so will allow U.S. tomato growers “to compete fairly in the marketplace.” Given that Mexican-grown tomatoes account for roughly 70% of the U.S. […]