Evoking memories of Pablo Escobar's assassination of Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan in 1989, Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was gunned down outside of a campaign event on Wednesday.
THE GOP PLEDGE TRAP. The Republican National Committee wanted to enforce unity among GOP presidential candidates by requiring them to sign a pledge to support whoever becomes the Republican presidential nominee. But in doing so, the RNC set a trap for itself and might soon suffer the consequences.
The House Oversight Committee has shown that foreign businessmen and oligarchs paid President Joe Biden’s son so that they could get close to the father while he was vice president. Some became criminals at some point or were otherwise corrupt, or belonged to adversarial nations.
Lawyers for the Biden administration and two Republican attorneys general presented arguments to an appeals panel Thursday over whether a district judge overreached by barring government officials from communicating with social media companies about controversial posts. During oral arguments, a three-judge panel in Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeals asked whether the government acted in...
There is growing alarm about the pace and prospects of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, with few signs of progress in recent weeks and Russian lines holding strong. Those concerns picked up steam in the last week after Ukraine launched a second push in the southern Zaporizhizhia region and has still come up mostly empty in the eyes...
The Biden administration this week sent letters to state health officials, warning that many are failing to meet federal requirements about determining Medicaid coverage for tens of millions of people in the wake of the pandemic public health emergency. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has expressed concern for months that many states...
A group of Democratic lawmakers in the House are calling for a hearing to “investigate attacks on democracy,” following Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R) suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell (D) on Wednesday for alleged “neglect of duty.” House Committee on Oversight and Accountability ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Dan...
Republican presidential candidates are set to face off in just two weeks at the party’s first primary debate in Milwaukee, but the White House hopefuls first have to agree to the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) required pledge to support whoever becomes the eventual GOP nominee. “I affirm that if I do not win the 2024...