A Wisconsin mayor who removed an absentee ballot drop box from city hall ahead of the 2024 presidential election will not face charges, a special prosecutor said Wednesday. Doug Diny, the mayor of Wausau, has maintained that he did nothing wrong when he carted away the city’s lone ballot drop box in September 2024, according...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday called artificial intelligence models that have found success in anticipating how the high court will rule in upcoming cases “a very bad thing.” “It shows we're way too predictable,” Sotomayor told students while speaking at the University of Alabama School of Law. “And we may not be stepping...
President Trump on Thursday tore into several right-wing media figures who had been reliably supportive of him during his second term until the U.S. war in Iran broke out. The president attacked several of the hosts and commentators personally, dismissed their viewpoints on the war and defended the military operation in the Middle East. "I...
The State Department will host a meeting next week in Washington, D.C., to discuss ongoing ceasefire negotiations with Israel and Lebanon, a department official confirmed Thursday. The official gave no further details on the talks, which will be focused on ending current hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, which Israel has targeted in...
Retired Gen. David Petraeus, the former commander of U.S. Central Command, said there is a “paradoxical question” about the future of Iran amid its conflict with the U.S. and Israel. “We can only answer it when the ultimate resolution is achieved here, but that is whether Iran will emerge militarily very weakened,” the retired general...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reportedly being in the White House's Situation Room weeks before the U.S.-Israeli joint military operation in Iran began. "Let's start with this pledge," Khanna, a possible 2028 White House contender, wrote on the social platform X. "The next Democratic President will never...
Ticket exchange and resale giant StubHub has agreed to pay $10 million to customers to settle a deceptive ticket pricing case, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Thursday.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger pushes back on critics, claiming Virginia is not a sanctuary state and dismissing a poll showing her lowest favorability as governor.
Rep. Eric Swalwell faced increased scrutiny over alleged sexual misconduct with female staffers as California gubernatorial rivals called him out publicly.