In the weeks leading up to the FBI's unprecedented 2022 raid of then-former President Trump's Palm Beach home, federal agents secretly spied on the movements of Melania Trump and her son, Barron.
Trump-backed businessman Bernie Moreno holds a 9-point lead in the Ohio Republican primary for U.S. Senate race in a new poll released one day ahead of the state’s Tuesday primary election. The final Emerson College poll of likely GOP voters, conducted on Sunday and Monday, shows Moreno with 38 percent support — a 9-point lead...
Former President Trump and his allies are aggressively pushing back after Democrats and critics seized on his comments that there would be a “blood bath” if he loses November’s election. Trump’s weekend comments sparked outrage that the former president was threatening to unleash violence similar to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol if he...
House Republicans took a victory lap on Monday after a federal appeals court pressed pause on new rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission that would require publicly listed companies to disclose climate risks. The rules have been blasted by Republicans, who say the agency is overstepping authority, and subjected to a series of lawsuits....
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) says he will not intervene to defend the state’s system of organizing its primary ballot based on the “county line,” agreeing with a lawsuit that it is unconstitutional. Platkin said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi on Sunday that he believes the county line system...
The Biden-Harris re-election campaign have launched two new television ads aimed at highlighting the “disaster” Donald Trump would be for Black Americans if he is reelected president. The ads, “Back” and “Price,” feature President Biden speaking directly to Black voters in a reelection ad for the first time. “As bad as Trump was, his economy...
The Supreme Court weighed the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) free speech case against a former New York regulator during oral arguments Monday. Over 75 minutes of arguments, the justices probed how to distinguish when government officials go beyond permissible advocacy and cross into unconstitutional coercion. “How do you define when it goes too far along...
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Monday fired back at former President Trump's recent call for her to be prosecuted over allegedly withholding evidence and testimony from the House Jan. 6 committee investigation. "Lying in all caps doesn’t make it true, Donald. You know you and your lawyers have long had the evidence," Cheney wrote...
Billionaire tech and media mogul Elon Musk says it is possible he will endorse a candidate for president before this fall's general election, but he does not anticipate giving any money to either President Biden or former President Trump. "I may, in the final stretch, endorse a candidate, but I don't know yet," Musk told former...
Former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) said on Monday he is withdrawing his name from consideration to run on a third-party presidential ticket backed by the political organization No Labels. “After careful deliberation, I have withdrawn my name from consideration for the No Labels presidential ticket,” Duncan said in a statement, reported by The Associated...
By officially designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, the U.S. would be enabled to take limited actions to hold individuals accountable for human rights abuses and elevate the importance of this issue in our diplomatic engagement.
President Biden is traveling this week to Nevada and Arizona, two states where the president’s reelection campaign is targeting former President Trump on voters' top issues. Campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez released a memo Monday to outline the messaging and infrastructure strategy for both states ahead of Biden’s trip on Tuesday. “Across the Southwest, Donald...
The Supreme Court seemed wary Monday of imposing harsh limits on how federal officials communicate with social media platforms about content moderation decisions. Sharply questioning both sides, the justices sought to determine when it is appropriate for the government to encourage the platforms to remove controversial content — if ever. Several justices, both liberal and...
