While House Republicans argue over electing a new speaker, their razor-thin majority is slipping away in courtrooms as redistricting lawsuits in a half-dozen states threaten to make it easier for Democrats to win back control in 2024.
Lawyers for Donald Trump are raising new challenges to the federal election subversion case against him, telling a judge that the indictment should be dismissed because it violates the former president's free speech rights and represents a vindictive prosecution.
Three weeks now since the ouster of Kevin McCarthy, House Republicans are meeting privately Tuesday to try nominating a new House speaker to accomplish the seemingly impossible job of uniting a broken, bitter GOP majority and returning to the work of governing in Congress.
President Joe Biden announced last week that the United States would provide “$100 million of new US funding for humanitarian assistance in both Gaza and the West Bank.” As my colleague Danielle Pletka notes, the administration will channel money for Gaza from the U.S. Agency for International Development's emergency funds that will not be subject to congressional scrutiny. USAID, meanwhile, will not answer questions about how it will spend that money in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Four days after Hamas began its massacre of Israeli civilians, King Abdullah II of Jordan addressed his country’s parliament, telling lawmakers that Jordan’s “compass will always point to Palestine, with Jerusalem in its heart, and we will never falter in defending its interests and just cause.” His wife, Queen Rania, pointed a finger at Israel and claimed that “it isn’t self-defense if you are an occupying force.”
While on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden provided a vision of hope, optimism, and improving the country’s conditions if he was elected. He campaigned on the slogan “Build Back Better” in 2020, but the 46th president hasn’t built anything back or better nearly three years into his term.
The Ohio officers who shot and killed Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, have been reinstated and are back on active duty. The decision to reinstate the eight officers follows a grand jury’s 2022 decision against indicting them. The department’s own internal investigation is expected to conclude soon with the review to be released in...
A coalition of tech and workers' rights advocacy groups asked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to prioritize protections for workers in artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, in a letter sent Tuesday. The letter sent to Schumer highlighted ways employers can use automated systems to surveil, replace, or hire and fire workers. In some cases, the organizations...
The government’s action was the culmination of a dozen years of organized, concerted character assassination on the part of the FBI, the INS, the Justice Department, and right-wing columnists in New York and Hollywood.