President Donald Trump granted a “full pardon” to former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters, though it may not be able to save her from prison. Peters was convicted in 2024 on state charges for her role in trying to overturn the 2020 election, and her appeal is still working through the Colorado courts. As […]

President Donald Trump downplayed his involvement in an effort to push a new congressional map for Indiana after the bill failed. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had been pressuring Indiana’s state legislature for months to redraw the state’s congressional districts to strip Democrats of two seats. These efforts ultimately were for nought after […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting states’ regulation of artificial intelligence after months of wrangling. Republican senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tried to include a provision in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would prevent states from regulating AI, but the effort failed after last-minute hesitation from Sen. Marsha Blackburn […]

Lawyers for Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, took issue with the angles a news camera was showing of him as the suspected gunman made his first in-person court appearance Thursday in a Utah court. Robinson wore civilian clothes in the courtroom, after Judge Tony Graf had previously allowed him to […]