Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) announced that he plans to file his resignation from the House on Tuesday, over a month after admitting to having an affair with a staffer who died by suicide last year. “There is a season for everything and God has a plan for us all,” Gonzales wrote in a post to […]

The Justice Department urged an appeals court on Monday to reject a bid by a group of young climate activists to revive a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s executive orders slashing climate change funding and aiming to boost energy production. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard arguments […]

Minnesota lawmakers raised doubts about Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) legislative anti-fraud package at a state House oversight hearing on Monday, questioning whether the governor’s proposals would actually detect and prevent scammers from defrauding the state’s taxpayer-funded programs. Throughout the hearing, members of the GOP-led Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee grilled […]

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) announced Monday afternoon that he will resign from Congress following a string of accusations regarding sexual misconduct. “I am deeply sorry to my family, staff, and constituents for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past. I will fight the serious, false allegation made against me,” Swalwell said in a statement […]