President Biden on Monday announced that former Democratic campaign head, Tom Perez, will serve as a White House senior adviser, assistant to the president, and director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Perez will replace the former director and senior adviser, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who is now serving as the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign manager. Perez served as chairman...
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a ballot measure at the center of an abortion fight in the state needed to be partially rewritten ahead of an August election, but ruled against Democratic litigants on some of their key requests. Ohioans will be heading to the polls on Aug. 8 to weigh in...
The House Rules Committee on Monday afternoon is meeting to discuss legislation on various topics, including regulations on gas stoves and pistol braces, which are firearms accessories intended to improve stability. Both of these bills have been on hold as the House Republican majority sorts out internal rifts between allies of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.)...
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson says the cable news business is in trouble. “I really do think the cable news business has a limited future,” Carlson told journalist and author Chadwick Moore as part of comments published Monday. “It’s too obviously controlled. It’s like Google — it’s just become too clear that there’s a...
Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said Monday that former President Trump’s indictment was worse than what his “greatest detractors” thought it could be. “There’s liability that comes with representing Donald Trump,” Griffin said on CNN. “It’s the same reason he struggled to hire really credible staff even on the campaign and the...
Our descendants will undoubtedly be confounded by our utter disregard for the present scientific consensus that Earth is in the grip of a climate change disaster.
Former President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to appoint a special prosecutor to specifically target President Biden and his family if he's reelected to the White House. Trump's post on Truth Social represents a brazen pledge to use the levers of government to target political rivals. It comes in the wake of his own indictment...
Young activists in Montana are facing off against the state in a trial starting Monday, arguing that its energy policies will exacerbate climate change and therefore deprive them of their rights in the future. The case was brought on behalf of 16 young people between the ages of two and 18 when the litigation began,...
If the conservative Supreme Court justices were to strike down these new standards, they would be contradicting the very decision they made last summer.
A Virginia man accused of hitting police with a large stick during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty on Monday to a felony charge, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced. Jonathan G. Mellis, 35, of Williamsburg, Virginia, pleaded guilty in D.C. to “assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain...