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Calif. winery says Fani Willis paid $400 cash, buttressing her claim in high-stakes hearing

An employee at a Napa Valley wine estate says Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis surprised him by paying $400 in cash after sampling wine with special prosecutor Nathan Wade in early 2023, supporting her high-stakes testimony about her penchant for using paper money.

Manchin isn’t endorsing anyone for president yet

Sen. Joe Manchin III said he's not endorsing anyone "right now" because he wants to see what happens while he works to get the country back to more moderate politics.

House Republicans still seeking to beat the unbeatable spending foe

House Republicans have made a lot of noise about breaking Washington's habit of relying on an end-of-year, colossal catch-all spending bill to fund the government, but they have made little progress in finishing the work.

GOP Senate contenders aren’t shy about wanting Trump’s approval. But in Pennsylvania, it’s awkward

Since he became the single biggest force in Republican politics nearly a decade ago, Donald Trump has figured prominently in U.S. Senate races, using his massive public platform and loyal base of support to shape which GOP incumbents run for reelection and which contenders get nominated.

White House is distributing $5.8 billion from the infrastructure law for water projects

The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it is distributing another $5.8 billion for water infrastructure projects around the country, paid for by one of its key legislative victories.

Is it better to be loved or feared?

“Americans no longer have faith in their leaders,” John Burtka writes in his new book, Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill. And to help address this problem, Burtka has assembled excerpts from 20 works that he believes can revive the “mirrors for princes” literary tradition that once guided Western leaders for generations.  In […]

X says it will update spam filters after mistakenly suspending Navalny’s widow

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, said Tuesday it will update spam filters after it mistakenly suspended a new account created by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. “Our platform's defense mechanism against manipulation and spam mistakenly flagged @yulia_navalnaya  as violating our rules,” X’s Safety account wrote in a post...

Carroll lawyer on recent Trump remarks: ‘We’re watching, we’re listening’

The legal team for advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is keeping an eye on former President Trump talking about their client after his apparent reference to her in a rally speech last weekend, Carroll's lawyer said Monday. "Everything he said about her [Carroll] over the last five years has been a lie and has been...

Why Apple is warning against an age-old remedy for wet iPhones

It's been common advice for years, but Apple wants you to stop doing it.

Tim Scott: Haley ‘has to realize that this race is over’

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), a surrogate for former President Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, called on to drop out of the race and join him in backing Trump. Asked by Fox News's Kayleigh McEnany, who once served as Trump's White House press secretary, why Haley was pledging to continue to Michigan following the South Carolina primary...

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