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If Larry Lessig gets his way on Wednesday, it will mark the beginning of the end of super PACs. The Harvard Law School professor and onetime presidential hopeful wants a Maine ballot measure he championed to spur a watershed moment for the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision. This morning, the battle heads to an appeals panel for oral arguments. The next step could be the high court. ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief White House medical adviser, will testify Wednesday morning before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on gain of function research, bringing the debate about the origins of the COVID pandemic back into the spotlight. The hearing comes just days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who chairs the committee, released more...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a face of the government's pandemic response, will sit Wednesday morning before a critical Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and the Senate Homeland Security panel to face questions on COVID-19. The former chief White House medical adviser and longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will appear days after...

President Trump late Tuesday renewed his call on Senate Republicans to adopt a House-passed budget resolution before the upcoming recess that would pave the way for passing a $95 billion emergency funding package with a simple-majority vote in September. The package would include $73 billion to help fund the Iran war effort, $12 billion for...

Every parent should worry that Washington seemingly cannot tell the difference between trading and obvious sports gambling.

In today's issue: ▪ COVID-19 tensions in Senate spotlight ▪ Iran launches ‘surprise attack’ ▪ Graham sanctions bill advances ▪ ICE targeting Haitian, Syrian migrants The COVID-19 pandemic will return to center stage Wednesday as the man whose briefings dominated daily life for more than a year testifies before Congress. Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony...

Unearthed video showed Christina Bohannan calling Iowa a "backwater" over Republican efforts to ban transgender athletes from girls' sports teams.

Sen. Rand Paul demands an apology from Anthony Fauci over gain-of-function research funding in China ahead of their Wednesday committee hearing.

Brian Mast describes gang torture, kidnapping of a 6-year-old U.S. citizen and Afghanistan-level poverty during a rare congressional trip to Haiti.

Roughly 75,000 noncitizens were summoned for jury duty in New Jersey as GOP lawmakers demand a bipartisan subpoena probe into voter registration.

Troy Jackson secured 75% of delegate votes at Maine's convention, but critics say the process contradicts his own calls for popular vote democracy.

President Donald Trump and a who’s who of political leaders returned Tuesday to the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, better known as the National Cathedral, for the funeral of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. The service reaffirmed something many Republicans seemed ready to abandon only 18 months ago: The National Cathedral remains […]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised Monday that his city-owned grocery stores would offer high-quality fresh produce and other basic groceries at prices guaranteed to be 30% lower than those at surrounding privately owned stores. But before New Yorkers start counting their potential savings, they might want to look at Chicago, where a similar […]

Four Jewish bar associations demand Zohran Mamdani correct the exclusion of Jewish members from his 19-person judiciary advisory panel in New York City.