President Donald Trump reached an agreement Monday with News Corporation magnate Rupert Murdoch to postpone Murdoch’s deposition in the $20 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal. Trump sued the outlet over its viral story about his connections with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The filing of the agreement between the two parties […]

The Trump administration is considering whether to publicly release a transcript of a late-July interview between Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. The Justice Department recorded Maxwell’s interview, which took place last month on July 24 and 25 at the U.S. attorney’s office in Tallahassee, and is now in the process of transcribing and redacting […]

Texas is permitted to enforce its law dismissing mail-in ballots without a voter’s identification number, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. The three-judge panel, led by U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho for the Fifth Circuit, said it had “no difficulty” concluding that Texas’s identification requirement was valid and consistent with federal law. A provision […]

Texas Democrats who fled the state as Republicans look to redraw the Lone Star State’s congressional lines pushed back on the GOP efforts during a press conference Tuesday morning. The press conference, where the Democrats were joined by Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin and Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL), comes on the eve of the […]