Politics News

Chaos has been the norm in Congress for some time now, but this week a truly noisome stench is looming over the Capitol as Republicans prepare to shut down the government. At its core, a shutdown is a failure of Congress to accomplish its most essential legislative task: funding the …

One of Rudy Giuliani’s Georgia lawyers is moving to withdraw himself from representing the former New York mayor and Trump co-defendant. David Wolfe filed notice Thursday to withdraw from the Fulton County 2020 election conspiracy case. Giuliani was among the 19 individuals, including former President Donald Trump, indicted in a …

California’s Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving female senator in U.S. history and three-time mayor of San Francisco, died Thursday at the age of 90. An icon of Democratic politics who was planning to step down at the end of her term amid a series of health issues, she is being remembered …

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will get his second opportunity to appoint a U.S. senator with the death of the Golden State’s senior stateswoman on Thursday — putting himin a position he said he dreaded earlier this month. “I don’t want to make another appointment,” he told Meet The Press’s Chuck …

A federal judge has sentenced former journalist James Gordon Meek to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty to transportation and possession of child sexual abuse material. Federal investigators first became aware of Meek’s possession of child sexual abuse imagery following a tip from the cloud storage provider, Dropbox, …

Scott Hall — one of the 18 co-defendants charged alongside Donald Trump for allegedly working to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election —pleaded guilty on Friday. Hall is the first individual charged in any of the four criminal indictments against Trump to plead guilty. He was indicted last …

As a government shutdown that could affect millions of Americans looms over Congress, House Republicans are busy launching their impeachment inquiry circus against President Joe Biden. On Thursday, the House Oversight Committee held its first hearing of their official impeachment inquiry investigation of as-yet-unproven allegations of “abuse of power, obstruction, …

Appearing in Michigan at a non-union auto parts manufacturer, former President Donald Trump blasted what he called “blood sucking globalists” attempting to “assassinate” the auto industry, and compared Joe Biden to a “wretched old vulture trying to finish off his prey.” Backed by four American flags, Trump spoke to the …

The tone of the second Republican primary debate can best be summed up with a slip of the tongue from Vivek Ramaswamy: “Thank you for speaking while I’m interrupting.” Over two chaotic, loud, and often unintelligible hours, seven candidates appeared onstage for a second round of jabs between presidential hopefuls …

Hackers linked to Beijing breached the email accounts of government officials this year and stole 60,000 emails from the U.S. State Department, a Senate staffer told Reuters Wednesday. The emails were stolen from 10 State Department accounts, according to the source, who works for Senator Eric Schmitt and was present …