Eight House Democrats have asked Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from considering whether Donald Trump is subject to criminal charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith over the former president's quest to overturn the 2020 election results.

Vice President Kamala Harris will tour the country in early 2024 to condemn new abortion limits and push for the restoration of rights that existed before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the White House said Tuesday.

NIKKI HALEY, DONALD TRUMP, AND 'CHAOS FOLLOWS HIM.' Like all the Republican candidates for president, Nikki Haley is trying to find the secret formula for running against Donald Trump. The most recent Fox News national poll, in which the former president is leading Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) by 57 points and Haley by 60, shows that no one has discovered the formula yet.

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed a new law Monday that would make crossing the Texas-Mexico border a state crime, empowering Texas law enforcement to arrest and detain illegal border-crossers.

When Voltaire wrote Candide, he intended to lampoon the idea that everything happens for the best. What he ended up with was a different mantra, one that, if not necessarily optimistic, at least gave human beings a mission: to cultivate their own gardens. Some have interpreted this to mean that one must leave the world behind.

The Biden administration on Tuesday took a step toward protecting older trees that store carbon dioxide and help to lessen climate change. It issued a proposed plan with apparent limitations on cutting down old-growth trees — saying that lands can’t be managed with the primary intention of logging such trees for economic reasons.  It does...

Liberal veterans group VoteVets is out with a new political ad that blasts Senate Republicans for holding up aid to Ukraine, accusing the GOP of derailing the legislation and benefitting Russia. The 30-second spot charges Republicans with playing into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin, flashing an image of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell...

A group representing several social media giants, including Google, Meta, TikTok and X, sued Utah on Monday over the state’s new social media law that requires platforms to verify user ages and obtain parental consent for minors. The Utah Social Media Regulation Act, which is set to go into effect March 2024, also requires social...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R ) took aim at former President Trump for launching a “misleading” ad suggesting she supports him.  Trump’s campaign released an ad earlier this month including comments from Reynolds praising the former president as being “a partner in the White House” for the Midwest. She argued that the ad was misleading since she...

A newly declassified intelligence report revealed China, Russia and Iran all sought to meddle in the 2022 midterm elections at higher rates than they did in the 2018 midterms. A report produced in December 2022 — but declassified last week — laid out the intelligence community’s (IC) assessments of the extent of foreign threats to...