House Republicans summon ActBlue attorney Ronald Machen for a closed-door interview, citing contradictions in his prior statements on donor verification.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Wednesday he will not enter the governor’s race in West Virginia, shooting down speculation that the retiring senator might be considering a last-minute bid for his old job. “My support is with Steve Williams,” Manchin said about the Democratic nominee, who won the uncontested primary race in the state....
Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday declined a request to meet with Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) about their push for Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from upcoming Supreme Court cases dealing with Jan. 6, 2021, and the effort to overturn the 2020 election. The two Democratic...
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is pulling an award it had planned to give actor Robert De Niro after the Oscar winner made an appearance this week on behalf of the Biden campaign outside the courthouse where former President Trump’s hush money trial is taking place. De Niro was slated to receive the NAB...
A South Dakota man has been arrested by the FBI on charges related to his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including shoving a “giant” metal sign toward police. William George Knight, 37, of Rapid City, S.D., was arrested Sunday and has been charged with two felonies and five misdemeanor offenses...
A second human case of bird flu has been identified in the state of Michigan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday, marking the third farmworker diagnosed with the virus in the U.S. since March. None of the three cases are associated with the others, the CDC said. As with the previous...
The Chinese Communist Party is increasingly controlling Hong Kong, and Hong Kong’s overseas representative offices — including three in the United States.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Thursday defended fundraising off the “bleach-blonde, bad-built butch body” insult she directed at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) amid a heated exchange between the two lawmakers during a committee hearing earlier this month. In an interview on ABC’s “The View,” Crockett said she trademarked the phrase after she saw an...
Democratic strategist David Axelrod ripped the Biden campaign for actor Robert De Niro’s appearance outside the Manhattan courthouse, calling the event “ill-timed” in a new opinion piece. Axelrod took aim in an opinion piece published on CNN on Wednesday, asking why President Biden's campaign team thought it would be a “good idea” to have De...
The Biden administration announced Thursday that it would be awarding nearly $900 million for clean energy school buses to hundreds of school districts across the country. Through the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, the agency selected more than 500 school districts to receiving the funding to replace diesel fueled...
Gas prices always become an issue in the summer months, as Americans hit the road for holiday travel — only this year, there may be another factor in the discussion: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
An Amazon Prime membership will now permanently include a free subscription to the Grubhub+ food delivery service, the companies announced Thursday. Amazon previously offered a one-year Grubhub+ membership to Prime members in July 2022, before extending the offer for another year in June 2023. The Grubhub+ membership includes no delivery fees on orders over $12,...
