Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) plans to call a special session in the Minnesota state legislature to toughen gun laws in the state following a school shooting in Minneapolis last week. The governor said Tuesday he would call state lawmakers and work on a plan to reconvene over the next couple of days. Walz said he […]

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) launched a congressional petition on Tuesday to force a vote on their legislation to release the criminal files on deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein. The procedural move that defies House leadership’s wishes comes as Congress returns from its six-week district work period, and lawmakers are expected to face […]

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett will stand by her consequential vote to overturn Roe v. Wade in her upcoming memoir, “Listening to the Law,” set to be released on Sept. 9. Barrett, who originally scored a $2 million advance for the book, writes that the 1973 Supreme Court decision, which enshrined a constitutional right […]

Paige Cognetti, the mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, announced her campaign for the House Tuesday in a bid to unseat Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA). In her launch video, she questioned Bresnahan’s stock trading and his murky financial record since entering Congress earlier this year. “Rob ran for Congress on a promise to ban stock trades. This […]