Former President Donald Trump expressed outrage over a Colorado Supreme Court ruling to take him off the state's primary ballot for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

DEMOCRATIC LAWFARE VS. DONALD TRUMP. The story of the 2024 campaign so far is the effort by Democrats and their appointees to use criminal charges and lawsuits to force former President Donald Trump out of the race for a second term in the White House. The name for such an effort is lawfare — that is, "the strategic use of legal proceedings to intimidate or hinder an opponent," to cite one law dictionary.

Democrats keep warning everyone about a looming threat to democracy. As has been the case for the last two decades or so, that threat is coming primarily from Democrats.

Forty-two percent of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers said that former President Trump’s recent remarks about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of the country makes them more likely to support him, according to a new poll. The Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom poll asked likely Republican caucusgoers about statements made by the president, including Trump’s recent claim that...

President Biden took aim at former President Trump on Wednesday for his remarks that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” saying immigrants make the country stronger. “We always believed diversity is our strength as a nation. I don’t believe, as the president — former president — said again yesterday, that immigrants are polluting,...

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) weighed in on the Colorado Supreme Court's disqualification of former President Trump from the state's ballot, saying that he's "mixed" on what it could mean. Kinzinger argued Wednesday that the bombshell ruling will likely feed into Trump's narrative while also deferring judgment to the courts. "I'm mixed from a political...

The Biden administration has reached an agreement to release one of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s closest allies in exchange for the freedom of 10 Americans, the extradition of an American businessman charged in a large-scale bribery scheme and commitments to democratic progress in the country. The agreement will see the return of six Americans who...

Venezuela has agreed to extradite Leonard Francis, also known as "Fat Leonard," the mastermind of one of the largest American military bribery scandals, as part of a prisoner swap deal reached with the U.S., according to the Biden administration. A senior Biden administration official said Francis is expected to be on a plane later Wednesday...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) slammed former President Trump's recent comment that immigrants were "poisoning the blood" of the country, arguing the former president's rhetoric is "poisoning our country." "With the exception of Alaska Natives and Native Peoples, most of us are daughters and sons of immigrants who came to this country to build a better...

The Biden administration has auctioned off the rights to drill for oil and gas on 1.7 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico in what will be the last offshore drilling auction it holds until 2025. Companies will pay a total of more than $380 million for the rights to drill on 311 tracts in...