There’s something spectacularly perfect about a state party concluding that the only way to preserve democracy is to cancel an expected primary election.
An Oakland City Council vote for a Gaza ceasefire resolution drew wide attention this week as speaker after speaker denounced efforts to insert language condemning Hamas for its murder of 1,200 people in Israel on Oct 7.
Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) says that newly expelled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) personally defrauded him and his mother by charging their credit cards without authorization. “Late yesterday on the floor I alluded to a personal impact of Rep. Santos’s conduct,” Miller wrote in a last-minute email to colleagues before Santos’s expulsion vote Friday morning. “Earlier...
The House voted to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) on Friday, leaving the GOP conference with one fewer lawmaker in an already slim majority. Santos was booted from Congress in a 311-114-2 vote, just weeks after the House Ethics Committee's damning report said there is "substantial evidence" showing the New York Republican committed serious federal...
Ten years ago, Donald Trump spurned an effort by a group of consultants to chart a path to the White House by first getting him elected governor of New York. It shouldn’t be surprising that he continues to fend off challengers from that direction.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is warning that the United States is “sleepwalking into dictatorship," saying that if former President Trump is reelected, it could mean the end of the republic. “One of the things we see today is sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States,” Cheney told CBS News's John Dickerson....
A watchdog agency has informed the White House that press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and spokesman Andrew Bates violated the Hatch Act, giving Jean-Pierre her second warning letter this year over the use of the term “MAGA.” The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) told Jean-Pierre and Bates in a letter in October, first obtained by NBC...