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Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and Michael Flynn have a prodigious influence on Donald Trump, his campaign, and ardent supporters. Will Paul Manafort be back as well?
After weeks of waiting, House Republicans say they will send two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate next month in a move that GOP strategists say will put vulnerable Democrats such as Sens. Jon Tester (Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) on the defensive. Republicans acknowledge the impeachment charges against...
Democratic insiders say they’re cheered that the Biden-Harris campaign is awash in cash, including a huge haul from Thursday night’s mega fundraiser in New York City featuring President Biden and former Presidents Obama and Clinton (more on that below). They’re even war-gaming the chaotic turbulence of the House GOP, imagining it could bolster Democrats’ aim...
Maryland’s Democratic Senate primary is growing increasingly fractious as the party prepares to take on former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) in November, risking a potential intraparty brawl. Rep. David Trone (D-Md.), who is the front-runner in the intraparty contest, recently faced criticism for making a racially charged slur during a budget hearing, for which he later...
Democrats hope student loan relief may prove to be a winning issue for President Biden in November after he canceled billions in debt despite his loss at the Supreme Court last summer. The White House has touted the president as canceling more student loans than any other administration in history, but Biden has still failed...
Profits and inflation surged together in the aftermath of the pandemic, leading many market commentators to pin the blame for inflation on corporate greed fueled by fiscal stimulus. Other economists and corporations fired back, arguing that companies are designed to be profit-maximizing and that to assume a new level of avarice on the part of...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) will implement a new rule aimed at removing barriers and increasing monthly payouts for those who receive certain government benefits, the government agency announced Wednesday. Beginning at the end of next September, the agency will no longer include food assistance when calculating one’s eligibility for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) monthly...
A report published Thursday on the situation in Haiti, which is facing intense gang violence, by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that sexual violence there is “severely underreported." The report said that according to the U.N. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), gangs in the Caribbean country...
Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) apparently had some choice words for fellow Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert at a recent Rotary Club meeting, according to a new report by Politico. “I've been asked about her moving across the mountains to run in the 4th Congressional District, and I have not said anything,” Buck said in...
Tony Bobulinski, a former associate of Hunter Biden, filed a $30 million defamation lawsuit against Fox News host Jessica Tarlov over her comments about his legal fees, which she corrected a day later. The suit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleged Tarlov “lied” last week when she...
Transgender people in Idaho will no longer be able to use Medicaid and other publicly funded programs to help cover the cost of gender-affirming medical care under a new state law set to take effect in July. Republican Gov. Brad Little quietly signed the measure Wednesday, a day after receiving it from Idaho’s GOP-controlled Legislature....
The U.S. government authorized $60 million in relief to Maryland for a bridge that collapsed in Baltimore after being struck by a cargo ship. The Department of Transportation (DOT) is giving funding for emergency work after the Francis Scott Key Bridge was struck by Dali, a 984-foot Singapore-flagged ship that lost power when attempting to...
Evan Gershkovich’s sister, Danielle, said that receiving letters from her brother, who has been detained in Russia for close to a year, is “like Christmas morning.” Danielle Gershkovich said she is "grateful" to get a glimpse of her brother Evan through photos of him in court and that they write letters to each other once...
