Politics

(WASHINGTON) — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday officially invited President Joe Biden to testify before the panel as part of a Republican-led impeachment inquiry into allegations that Biden used his office to participate in and profit from his family’s foreign business dealings — which he has adamantly denied. The committee proposed April […]

(WASHINGTON) — Republicans accomplished a longtime goal in 2022 when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, scrapping constitutional protections for abortion. They’ve been faced with seemingly monthly electoral setbacks ever since, with no end in sight. Democrats have made defending reproductive rights a rallying cry, seizing on it to defy expectations in the 2022 […]

(NEW YORK) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 216 noncitizens who faced criminal charges and convictions as part of the agency’s latest nationwide operation, officials said on Thursday as they also singled out what are known as “sanctuary cities” in the wake of a Georgia college student’s killing. Over a period of 12 days earlier […]

(WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Thursday that the impeachment articles for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will be sent over to the Senate on April 10, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate trial will take place on April 11. In a new letter, Johnson and the Republican […]

(NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden is teaming up with two of his Democratic predecessors — former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton — to ramp up enthusiasm for his reelection campaign at a star-studded fundraiser Thursday night in New York City. The evening is expected to rake in more than $25 million, a “historic” […]

(LOS ANGELES) — The California State Bar has recommended that former Trump election attorney John Eastman be disbarred, a judge said in a filing on Wednesday. Eastman was charged with multiple disciplinary counts by the State Bar of California last January from allegations that Eastman engaged in “a course of conduct to plan, promote, and […]

(ATLANTA) — Attorneys for Donald Trump said that Trump’s comments “calling into question” the election of 2020 were “the height of political speech,” in arguments seeking the dismissal of the former president’s Georgia election interference case Thursday. Trump’s lawyers were back in a Fulton County courtroom, where they argued that the election interference charges against […]

(NEW YORK) — Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died, his family announced Wednesday. He was 82 years old. Lieberman died in New York City “due to complications from a fall,” his family said in a statement. “His beloved wife, Hadassah, and members of his family were with him as he passed. Senator Lieberman’s love of […]

(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, recently elected Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, said in a new interview that the national party doesn’t plan to pay his ongoing legal bills and maintained that donors could opt-out of contributing funds for that if they want to. Lara Trump also differed with her father-in-law on […]

(WASHINGTON) — In the wake of the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s partial collapse in Baltimore on Tuesday, “Rebuilding will not be quick or easy or cheap,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. “But we will get it done,” he told reporters at a White House press briefing on Wednesday. Buttigieg reiterated the federal government’s support for […]