Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Attorney General Keith Ellison acknowledged Wednesday that their state has been engulfed in a fraud scandal targeting federally funded social services programs, as House Republicans pressed them over what they described as delayed responses to massive schemes that could have siphoned off billions in taxpayer dollars. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing […]

A Green Party candidate for Senate from North Carolina was ejected from a Senate armed services subcommittee hearing Wednesday after disrupting the testimony in an anti-war protest. Brian McGinnis, a U.S. Marine veteran, protested while dressed in uniform at the testimony of several U.S. generals before the subcommittee on the Current Readiness of the Joint […]

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday to sit for a deposition about the Department of Justice’s handling of its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The panel voted 24-19 after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) introduced a motion to subpoena Bondi, due to growing […]

The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that federal appeals courts must defer to the findings of immigration courts, rather than do their own fact-finding, when reviewing asylum claims, confirming the federal courts’ limited role in immigration disputes even as courts try to find other ways into immigration cases across the country. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson […]