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The Secretary of State of Maine has removed Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential primary ballot, citing an interpretation of the 14th amendment that would bar insurrectionists from holding office. Maine joins Colorado as the second state in the U.S. to block Trump’s presidential bid after Colorado’s Supreme Court ejected …

Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, accidentally gave his lawyer phony legal citations — which were then used in a motion given to a federal judge — conjured by Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Google Bard. Per The New York Times, Cohen pulled the citations when trying to aid …

Former South Carolina Gov. and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is drawing scrutiny for failing to say slavery was the cause of the Civil War when asked by a voter on Wednesday. She’s trying to clean up the mess now, but Haley’s latest comments reflect her longstanding political approach. …

E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Donald Trump will go ahead in January after an appeals court rejected the former president’s motion to stay a previous ruling denying his attempt to use presidential immunity as a defense. Trump’s legal team filed the motion last week, seeking a 90-day stay to …

Former Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry scored a victory Tuesday when an appeals court reversed his conviction of lying to federal authorities about an illegal foreign donation to Fortenberry’s 2016 campaign. The court ruled that the former congressman’s trial took place in the wrong venue. “Fortenberry’s trial took place in a …

Alexei Navalny, the anti-Putin activist and Russian opposition leader who mysteriously disappeared from prison earlier this month, has been found in a remote penal colony in the Arctic, a spokesperson has said. Kira Yarmysh, an aide for Navalny, wrote on X on Monday that the activist had been found after …

Two Republican lawmakers were targeted with attempted swatting incidents on Christmas Day. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Brandon Williams (R-N.Y.) both said that local police received a false report of an emergency situation at their homes. “I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with …

Christmas is supposed to be a day of peace, especially in the Holy Land. Not this year. Hamas and Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad rejected on Monday a proposal for a ceasefire to the fighting in Gaza, Egyptian security sources told Reuters. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli troops …

Donald Trump claimed that he was merely doing his “duty” as president by alleging that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen,” therefore believes he deserves “immunity” from prosecution. “I wasn’t campaigning, the Election was over. I was doing my duty as President to expose and further investigate a Rigged …

Republicans, including former president Donald Trump, have targeted the Justice Department, accusing the agency and its staff of weaponizing the justice system, as well as individual judges. This type of rhetoric has contributed to “toxicity” and an “unprecedented rise” in threats against public officials, said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. …