A federal judge Tuesday temporarily blocked a Mississippi law restricting the groups of people permitted to assist voters with casting their absentee ballots. U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate barred Mississippi officials from applying the law in the state’s primary elections next month and general elections in November and required that the Mississippi secretary of state...
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) demanded further information from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) about its plan to remove marijuana from the list of schedule one drugs during a House Judiciary hearing Thursday. DEA Administrator Anne Milgram testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance during which...
The Justice Department’s investigation into former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and in connection to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol is twisting his Republican primary competitors in knots trying to both defend him and denounce what happened that day. Speculation about an impending indictment of Trump over his actions surrounding...
GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley is pushing back against fellow White House hopeful Chris Christie’s (R) claims that she and some other candidates do not call out former President Trump enough. “Well I’m not obsessively anti-Trump like he is,” Haley said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “I talk about policies,” she added, pointing to times she...
The House voted Thursday to overturn two Biden administration Endangered Species Act (ESA) rules, sending the resolution to the president, who has vowed to veto them. The two rules apply to federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken and the northern long-eared bat, respectively. The Senate voted in favor of both resolutions in May by...
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) is in hot water after he cursed out a group of teenage Senate pages in the Capitol rotunda early Thursday morning. According to a transcript written by a page minutes after the incident and obtained by The Hill, Van Orden called the pages “jackasses” and “pieces of s‑‑‑,” and told...
Mar-a-Lago’s head of maintenance Carlos De Oliveira was indicted out of Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation related to former President Trump's alleged improper retention of classified records.
Maine will generate at least 3,000 megawatts of electricity — over half its power supply — from offshore wind turbines come 2040 under a bill signed into law by Gov. Janet Mills.