President Donald Trump signed legislation ending the government shutdown and issued pardons for more than 70 people accused of seeking to overturn the 2020 election.
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John Bolton, a former national security adviser to President Trump who is now counted among his foes, was indicted Thursday over allegations he shared and stored classified information. Federal prosecutors say that Bolton sent more than a thousand pages of “diary-like entries” to two relatives and retained documents, writings and notes related to national defense. The...
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) and former state Del. Jay Jones (D) came face-to-face on Thursday at a highly anticipated attorney general's debate in Richmond amid a stunning scandal that has put renewed interest on the downballot race. Unlike past state attorney general races, this year's contest has garnered national attention following leaked violent...
Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly proposed a new congressional map on Thursday, one that would change the makeup of Democratic Rep. Don Davis’s district. Under the proposed map, the 1st District, represented by Davis, would include Beaufort, Craven, Carteret, Pamlico, Hyde and Dare counties. The six counties were previously part of the 3rd...
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said Thursday he will not accept further donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and will return donations he has already received from the group. “I support Israel’s right to exist, but I’ve also never been afraid to disagree openly with AIPAC when I believe they’re wrong,” Moulton said...
Three labor unions sued the Trump administration on Thursday in connection with a program that searched social media posts of visa holders, arguing that it violates the First Amendment. The unions — the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; Communication Workers of America; and American Federation of Teachers — called...
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Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey, who is overseeing the U.S. military’s strikes against boats in the Caribbean that the Trump administration argues are smuggling drugs into the country, will retire at the end of the year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday. Holsey, a four-star admiral who is the commander of U.S. Southern Command (Southcom),...
Most Americans pinned the blame on the government shutdown on all parties involved — Republicans, Democrats and President Trump — according to a poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Roughly three-quarters of Americans surveyed said Republicans, Democrats and Trump deserve "a moderate amount" of blame over the shutdown, with...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday stood by the Democrat running for attorney general in Virginia, suggesting Jay Jones should remain in the race following revelations that he had mused about violence against a Republican lawmaker and his children. Asked whether the Democrat should step aside, Jeffries signaled that Jones’s apologies for the...
A federal grand jury indicted former national security adviser John Bolton on charges of transmitting and retaining national defense information, bringing another criminal case against a critic of President Trump. Bolton faces eight transmission counts and 10 retention counts. Prosecutors allege that, beginning in April 2018 until at least August this year, Bolton “abused...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Democrats are discussing ways to prohibit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from covering their faces when carrying out enforcement operations — should the party retake the majority in the 2026 midterm elections. “When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off,” the California Democrat told The New...
