The FEC is charged with the difficult task of enforcing and interpreting often complex campaign finance laws while promoting transparency for contributions to candidates, parties, and political committees. Its bipartisan makeup helps provide the FEC with the credibility to achieve this challenging objective—and to keep the Commission from becoming a political weapon.
Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson says that “no decent person would defend” what happened to Alexei Navalny after the Russian opposition leader's death in prison was announced on Friday. Carlson, a former Fox News pundit who has faced backlash for his recent extended interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, told The Daily Mail in a statement,...
Several major technology companies — including Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Snap, TikTok and X — signed an accord Friday pledging to combat the use of deceptive artificial intelligence (AI) in this year’s elections. The 20 participating companies pledged to “work collaboratively on tools to detect and address online distribution” of AI-generated content...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) blasted Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) on Friday for taking what Schumer’s office called “a cynical field trip to the border” after both Republican senators voted last week to block a bipartisan border deal that Graham was involved in negotiating. Graham is coming under fire from...
Two juveniles have been charged in the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade mass shooting that killed one and injured 22 people. The Jackson County Family Court in Missouri said the juveniles are being detained in the county’s Juvenile Detention Center on resisting arrest and “gun-related” penalties. The release also said that “additional” charges could...
The Trump campaign is pushing back at a news story about former President Trump’s stance on abortion, but it did not contradict its main contention that Trump has privately indicated he supports the idea of a ban on abortion after 16 weeks of pregnancy. The New York Times reported Trump has told advisers and allies that he...
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said if former President Trump is reelected, he would “hand the keys over” to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Slotkin said Ukraine’s fate in its war against Russia would be sealed if Trump gets reelected in November and that Putin likely will continue his conquest through Europe in that case. “And I...
It is long overdue for Congress to invest in a robust care system, ensuring comprehensive access to long-term care, good pay for care workers, and smart economic policies like paid leave.
Fulton County, Ga., prosecutors aimed to topple allegations of misconduct against District Attorney Fani Willis (D) Friday by calling her father to the witness stand. John Clifford Floyd III, Willis’s father, testified that he was unaware until recently of his daughter’s relationship with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor in the 2020 election interference case involving...