Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Google employee with insider trading on Polymarket. In a seven-page complaint filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York (SNDY), the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged that 36-year-old Michele Spagnuolo, a software engineer at Google, exploited his access to confidential, nonpublic data on Google’s “Year in...
President Trump has appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to his panel on science and technology, nearly two months after he fired her as the head of the Department of Justice. Bondi will serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), joining several business and technology leaders, a White House official confirmed. It...
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Trump-era restrictions that prevent faculty at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (USMA) from speaking to external groups without permission. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel agreed with a longtime law professor that the policy likely violates civilian professors’ free speech rights under the First Amendment. “And even affording Defendants due deference in the realm of military affairs, their stated...
Former President Biden on Tuesday sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) to block the release of audio and transcripts of private interviews with a ghostwriter used in a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified documents. Biden's lawyers filed the lawsuit in federal court in Washington D.C., ahead of the DOJ's upcoming release of...
The American Bar Association (ABA) is moving closer to rolling back a key diversity initiative in an effort to hang on as the nation’s law school accreditor while the Trump administration and Republicans ramp up pressure on such DEI initiatives. In recent years, conservatives have looked to sideline the ABA over concerns it leans politically...
Democrats must focus on voters and not themselves, and their campaign message strategies should not be composed by obituary writers, in order to win the upcoming midterm elections.
Before 2015, the term "democratic socialism" was foreign to the American political lexicon. It was certainly not cool among the chattering class, to say nothing of the politically powerless. Then, something happened that thrust democratic socialism into the national limelight, where it has remained ever since. Bernie Sanders, the septuagenarian independent U.S. senator from Vermont,...
In today's issue: ▪ Dems get their desired target in Texas ▪ Trump says physical went ‘perfectly’ ▪ Cabinet meeting amid Iran negotiations ▪ Southern states’ redistricting tit-for-tat Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may have trounced Sen. John Cornyn (R) for the GOP nomination for Senate, but Democrats are feeling like the big winner from Texas’s primary results Tuesday...
Some Senate Republican aides say there is growing support within the Senate GOP conference for ousting the parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, after she ruled against a proposal to provide $1 billion for the White House ballroom, a move that would drastically change how the upper chamber operates. The ruling infuriated President Trump, who claimed last week...
QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK, Uganda — Located about 200 miles from the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Congo, the fears of infection here are low. Yet the anxiety over the consequences of the public health crisis is sky-high in places like Katunguru in western Uganda, where tourism is the lifeblood of the local...
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) became the latest casualty of President Trump’s revenge tour on Tuesday after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) easily trounced the incumbent in the Senate GOP runoff. Paxton is projected to garner about 64 percent support with over 95 percent of the vote reported early Wednesday, according to Decision Desk HQ The state's attorney...
Former Tarrant County GOP chair Bo French is projected to deliver an upset and defeat incumbent Jim Wright in the GOP primary for Texas Railroad Commissioner, according to Decision Desk HQ. French, a rancher and mineral owner, was backed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and GOP donors like Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, according to Houston Public...
Former Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) is projected to defeat Rep. Julie Johnson (D-Texas) in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas’s newly drawn 33rd Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. Johnson succeeded Allred last cycle after the former lawmaker vacated his seat to run against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). He went on to lose to Cruz in 2024 and launched...
