Investors voted Tuesday to give the blank check company attempting to take Truth Social public another year to finalize its merger with former President Trump’s media startup, according to reports. Shareholders in Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) granted the company a 12-month extension to close the deal with Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), just...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) impeachment trial in the Lone Star State begins Tuesday, when Republicans in the state Legislature’s upper chamber will play the pivotal role in considering whether he misused his office. As The Hill’s Saul Elbein writes, it’s a potentially explosive moment for the ruling conservative coalition and the first impeachment trial in the state’s modern history. Paxton faces 20 counts of corruption.
President Biden on Tuesday awarded the Medal of Honor to a Vietnam-era Army helicopter pilot who saved four of his comrades in a daring rescue mission. Biden called it an act of "incredible" valor that positively changed the lives of four American families. Former Capt. Larry L. Taylor, of Chattanooga, Tenn., stood patiently next to...
Oklahoma announced Tuesday it would be allowing materials from the conservative education platform PragerU in its public schools, following the same move from Florida earlier this summer. Ryan Walters, the state superintendent of public instruction, said he is “thrilled” to be partnering with the platform founded by right-wing talk show host Dennis Prager and Allen...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday used his first speech on the Senate floor since his second freeze-up in as many months to acknowledge the incident but tout his "busy month" over the August recess. McConnell made headlines last week when he froze for about 30 seconds while speaking to reporters in his...
A CNN poll released Tuesday found that 13 percent of Republicans and independents who lean Republican said they think Trump should be disqualified from the presidency if charges he faces connected to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election are true. Meanwhile, 19 percent said the charges “cast doubt on his fitness for the job,...
The Trump campaign said there is “no legal basis" for to use the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to prevent former President Trump from appearing on the 2024 presidential ballot, accusing those pushing the effort of using “lawfare to deprive voters of choosing their next president."
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was questioned on President Biden's claim he hasn't visited East Palestine, Ohio, because he hasn't "been able to break."
Hunter Biden attended at least four U.S. state dinners during his father's vice presidency while Hunter was running his now-defunct firm Rosemont Seneca Partners.