Multiple Secret Service agents involved in planning security for Donald Trump's July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, failed to properly mitigate line-of-sight risks to the stage that led to the assassination attempt on the former president, the agency's internal inquiry found.
Election officials in Georgia's third-largest county said they're late in mailing more than 3,000 absentee ballots to voters just a few days before the election.
Between blue states and red states, it is easy to discern America’s geographic political polarization. Republicans move to reliably red states such as Texas, Florida, and Wyoming, while Democrats migrate similarly toward states such as Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Oregon. Subtler is the intrafamily polarization characteristic of today’s politics. For its own part, geographic polarization is […]
Arizona’s attorney general office said they are investigating former President Trump’s comments about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) as a death threat under state laws in a statement to The Hill. “I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat...
Former President Trump panned a jobs report released by the Labor Department on Friday, calling it the “worst jobs report in the history of our country” during a rally in Michigan. “We have breaking news. It's actually bad news. It's only good for one thing, if you happen to be running against the stupid fools...
Two key senators released a bipartisan plan Friday to require Medicare to pay the same rate for the same service, regardless of where the service is delivered. The “site-neutral” payment reform plan from Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) is aimed at stopping hospitals from getting more money from Medicare for procedures that can...
Three Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee want answers from the Biden administration on Israeli strikes that reportedly killed members of the Lebanese armed forces (LAF), attacks they say could escalate the conflict in the Middle East. “Reports that Israel is harming LAF forces in its war against Hezbollah run contrary to the...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is set to stand trial on corruption charges on April 21, a federal judge ruled Friday, according to The New York Times. The judge said he would decide at a later date whether he would throw out a bribery charge against the mayor — a request by Adams's lawyers,...