Battleground Republicans across the country are on defense as ICE operations keep finding their way into local headlines.A flurry of ICE activity in four rural Kansas towns this week...
Trump told officials that anyone in the country illegally remains "on the table" for arrest and deportation after internal ICE guidance caused confusion.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has announced in a “Dear Colleague” letter that the Senate will vote Wednesday on the Right to Contraception Act, timing the vote shortly before the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision striking down the right to an abortion. Schumer opened his letter by noting that June 24 will...
Many states — both red and blue — have made clear that they want to protect their citizens’ freedom of speech from meritless litigation. It’s time for Congress to act.
Most independents say former President Trump received a fair trial in the New York hush money criminal case, in a new poll taken in the days after he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal potentially damaging information ahead of the 2016 presidential election. In a CBS News/YouGov poll published...
As colleges grapple with how to recover from the Israel-Hamas controversies on their campuses, some have decided the best way forward is to try to back away from hot-button issues. This week, Harvard University and Syracuse University both announced new policies saying school leadership will no longer be commenting on controversial political issues. The...
Former President Trump said he would be "ok" with being sentenced to either house arrest or jail time after he was convicted last week on 34 felony counts in New York. When asked on Fox News's "Fox and Friends" how he deals with the prospect of being sentenced to house arrest or jail, Trump said,...
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said this weekend that her sister is backing former President Trump’s reelection bid following the guilty verdict in the New York hush money criminal trial. In a column published Saturday, Dowd said after the guilty verdict, she called her brother and her sister — both of whom, she said,...
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said it is a "terrible idea" to have former President Trump's sentencing just four days before the Republicans' national convention in July. Sununu said on CNN's "State of the Union" that the jury "did their job" in the hush money case, which he described as "politically driven." He added...
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C) on Sunday appeared to dodge directly answering whether he would push former President Trump to reconsider a federal abortion ban if chosen as his vice president, given the two Republicans' differing stances on the issue. When asked on "Fox News Sunday" if he is willing to concede his position on a...
With antisemitism now being openly celebrated (and, in some cases, nurtured) on some American college campuses and Congress debating fresh antisemitism legislation, it is timely to examine to what extent the religious teachings that brought about these positive developments in the last 70 years are still resonating with America’s Christians.
Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said there will be "strong appeals" to the hush money jury's verdict that found former President Trump guilty last week. A jury found Trump guilty on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to a reimbursement made to his ex-fixer Michael Cohen for a payment...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) emphasized that there is a strong "contrast" between President Biden and former President Trump but did not say whether Democrats should be concerned that Trump's conviction in the hush money case will help him win reelection. "Well, this election will present a clear contrast between President Biden and Democrats...
Former President Trump and his allies have spent the hours since he was convicted in New York arguing the verdict will play out to his advantage in the end. They could easily be wrong. To be sure, nobody knows for certain what the political ramifications of the verdict will be, given that the nation is...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Sunday defended her endorsement of former President Trump despite her past criticism of the GOP presidential candidate, arguing that the past three-and-a-half years under President Biden have left the country worse off. "Well, after almost four years of Joe Biden, it wasn't that difficult to watch and see ballots being...
