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Los Angeles hosts battle of the Habsburgs

A peculiar family rivalry will play out today in Inglewood, California, where Spain and Austria battle it out on the soccer field. For hundreds of years of history, both...

AOC Grabs a Tiger by the Ears

Her endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed is a risky gamble, to say the least.

New York Times Story Features ‘Tree Rights’

This resolution is another case of “rights” being granted to non-human entities without its...

The Handful of Democrats Fighting Back Against the DSA Takeover

They may be waging a losing fight against the DSA’s ascension, but theirs is...

Will Jefferson and Smith Reach the Tricentennial Intact?

The ideas animating the Declaration and Wealth of Nations have profoundly shaped America and...

New York Times’s Haberman, Swan: Trump ‘answers more questions than Joe Biden’

New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan said Monday that President Trump "answers more questions" from reporters than his predecessor, former President Biden. C-SPAN released a clip of an interview featuring the two reporters with "Q&A" host Peter Slen, set to air Monday at 9 p.m. EDT, where they discussed being unable to...

5 takeaways on divided day for Trump at Supreme Court 

It was a mixed bag for President Trump at the Supreme Court on Monday. The justices tightened the president’s grip on executive power in ruling independent agency leaders may be fired, while rejecting a key pillar of Trump's political agenda aimed at restricting mail-in voting. They ruled he must give a Federal Reserve governor due...

Supreme Court punts geofence case

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Supreme Court sends back geofence warrant The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to their cellphone location data, tossing out a ruling against a man convicted in a Virginia bank robbery case. © Natasha Kaiser The justices...

Arizona sheriff addresses latest Nancy Guthrie email

TMZ received an email from someone claiming to have video of a suspect in the case.

Dozens of states sue Trump administration over ‘frail’ Medicaid work requirement exemption

A coalition of 25 states and the District of Columbia is suing the Trump administration over a new rule implementing Medicaid work requirement exemptions for medically frail people.  According to the lawsuit, which was filed Monday in federal district court in Massachusetts, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) violated congressional protections when it...

Pulte renews mortgage fraud allegations against Lisa Cook after Supreme Court ruling

Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), reiterated his allegations of mortgage fraud against Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook on Monday, after the Supreme Court blocked President Trump from immediately firing her for cause. “As I have repeatedly said, I believe Lisa Cook will be indicted for mortgage fraud,” Pulte...

Justice Thomas makes appearance on Capitol Hill amid major rulings

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was spotted Monday on Capitol Hill, amid the high court releasing a slate of opinions before it heads on recess for the summer. While Thomas, surrounded by a Metropolitan Police Department officer and another man, was walking through the House side of the Capitol, the justice told MS NOW’s Mychael...

Murphy: Trump, not leftist candidates, is ‘biggest threat’ to US

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Sunday that President Trump is the “biggest threat” to the U.S., while downplaying concerns about far-left candidates like democratic socialists who have notched wins recently. “I will say, though, what binds together, I think, every Democratic candidate that is running, including the ones in New York, is that they are...

Trump calls democratic socialists ‘biggest threat to our nation there is’

President Trump slammed democratic socialist candidates Monday, calling their movement more dangerous to the U.S. than previous world wars and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “They use the word social democrat because it sounds so nice, but it’s really communism you’re talking about,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I think it’s the...

Trump calls housing bill ‘a yawn,’ concedes SAVE America Act unlikely to pass

President Trump referred to a bipartisan housing bill as a “yawn” on Monday, arguing that the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act is more important.  "It's so unimportant compared to the SAVE America Act,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “When I look at the bill, it's a bill. When I look at...

Colorado high court tosses redistricting ballot measures

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday tossed out two cases involving new redistricting ballot measures that would have favored Democrats.  One ruling said the redistricting measure violated the state constitution’s “single subject” requirement that calls for measures proposed by petition to focus on one issue for inclusion on the ballot.  The Democratic aligned group, Coloradans...

PBM lobby goes on the offensive

The nation’s top pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) lobbying group is going on the offensive, stepping up its advocacy efforts against the pharmaceutical industry after Congress passed a PBM industry overhaul last winter. The pharmaceutical industry spent years pointing fingers at pharmacy benefit managers as the reason for high drug costs, and Congress finally was able...

Hegseth announces new Defense Policy Board after clearing out previous panel 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced the 15 individuals who will make up the new Defense Policy Board, just over a year after the previous panel was cleared out by the Pentagon chief.  Robert Lighthizer, who was the U.S. Trade Representative during President Trump’s first term, will be the chair of the board, which was established...

Senate Ethics panel dismisses Luna complaint against Gallego

The Senate Ethics Committee has dismissed a complaint against Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) filed by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) accusing the senator of making inappropriate advances toward several women and violating campaign finance rules. The Ethics panel informed Gallego in a letter Friday that its investigations “did not find evidence that your actions violated...

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