The Oregon Court of Appeals on Monday asked the state's highest court to decide whether Republican state senators who carried out a record-setting GOP walkout this year can run for reelection.
A group of whistleblowers who reported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to the FBI said Monday they are not giving up their own legal fight against the Republican after his acquittal on corruption charges at his impeachment trial.
A forensic accountant, a constitutional scholar and a former Justice Department tax supervisor will be the first witnesses Thursday when the House launches the impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
Sen. Pete Welch (D-VT.) has called on fellow Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) to resign from his position amid the longtime senator’s recent indictment on federal charges, becoming the third Democratic senator to do so. “Senator Menendez is entitled to the presumption of innocence,” Welch wrote in an X, a social media platform formerly known as...
Republican presidential candidate and former Rep. Will Hurd (Texas) said Monday that former President Trump is only running for president to avoid being incarcerated. “The problem that I have with Donald Trump is, is Donald Trump's not running for president to Make America great again. He's running for president to stay out of prison,” Hurd...
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Film and television writers appear poised to return to work, after the Writers Guild of America (WGA) reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios Sunday. However, Hollywood isn’t back in action quite yet. Even as writers prepare to head back to work, thousands of actors with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio...
A small but significant number of moderate GOP lawmakers are plotting a path toward potentially working with Democrats to fund the government past Sept. 30 and combat a shutdown. At least three Republicans — Reps. Mike Lawler (N.Y.), Don Bacon (Neb.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) — have expressed an openness to joining Democrats in signing...
Senate leaders are headed toward unveiling a short-term government funding stopgap measure that will be relatively clean and is not expected to include significant amounts of money for the war in Ukraine or disaster relief, according to sources familiar with the talks. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)...