Former Trump administration national security advisor John Bolton had harsh words for the former president, calling his foreign policy “erratic” and ineffective. “Donald Trump doesn’t really have a philosophy, as we understand it in political terms,” Bolton said in a Thursday interview on The Hill's show on NewsNation. “He doesn’t think in policy directions when...
A group of 38 House Democrats penned a letter Thursday to the body overseeing federal courts requesting that former President Trump’s election fraud trial be publicly televised live. “It is imperative the [court] ensures timely access to accurate and reliable information surrounding these cases and all of their proceedings, given the extraordinary national importance to...
U.S. House Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said on Thursday she doesn’t think the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack was aware of notes taken by former Vice President Mike Pence during meetings with Donald Trump when he was making false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Special Counsel Jack...
President Biden has maintained that a rule restricting asylum is crucial to his administration's efforts in managing the U.S.-Mexico border, but in late July a lower court decision found the policy to be illegal and ordered it to be terminated by Monday. But in a turn of events, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on...
John Lauro, the lawyer handling former President Trump's recent indictment over alleged election fraud, said the federal prosecutor’s potential wishes for a trial early next year would infringe on the former president’s rights. “Speedy trial rights are a defendant’s speedy trial rights, a citizen’s speedy trial rights, not the government. The government has an obligation...
The two Tennessee House members expelled in April over a gun control protest have won back their seats. Reps. Justin Jones (D) and Justin Pearson (D) defeated their special election rivals on Thursday and will fully rejoin the state legislature. Jones defeated Laura Nelson (R) in the House District 52 race, encompassing much of eastern Nashville, Tenn....
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommended the first preventive Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) treatment for infants on Thursday, shortly after a key panel endorsed the product. CDC Director Mandy Cohen adopted the guidance recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Thursday for the administration of nirsevimab, or Beyfortus....
At a press briefing Thursday, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador said Texas’ anti-immigration buoy barriers in the Rio Grande are “inhumane.” Mexican officials made complaints against the use of the barriers in an official letter to the U.S. government last month. López Obrador’s comments come after two bodies were found in the Rio Grande...
Tennessee Democrats Justin Jones and Justin Pearson won back their state house state in a special election on Thursday after being expelled for participating in a gun control protest on the house floor.
Experts say Donald Trump 2020 election indictment will dominate the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race in the short term, with potential downsides for Trump in the long term