Politics

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to a 30-day delay on Trump’s upcoming hush money trial in New York. In a Thursday filing, Bragg wrote that his office had received “approximately 31,000 pages of additional records” from the US Attorney’s Office (USAO) and would “not oppose a brief adjournment …

President Joe Biden shared a statement Thursday reacting to the news that Nex Benedict, the nonbinary teen whose death sparked outrage last month, died by suicide. “Jill and I are heartbroken by the recent loss of Nex Benedict,” Biden said in a statement. “Every young person deserves to have the …

This week, Washington’s top Israel lobby is rallying its supporters to go to Capitol Hill and falsely claim to lawmakers that people aren’t starving in Gaza and Israel isn’t blocking aid shipments, according to talking points obtained by the American Prospect. Israel has led a brutal siege on Gaza since …

As RFK Jr. ponders which celebrity to tap as his VP, another third-party presidential ticket seems to be running out of steam. No Labels, the self-proclaimed centrist organization with dark money funding, had one of its national leaders abruptly resign Wednesday. Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), who served …

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is leading renewed efforts to institute a 32-hour work week nationwide — one that crucially does not result in a decrease in pay. Sanders, who helms the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), will introduce a bill Thursday that seeks to reduce the …

Trump is reshaping the Republican National Committee to the point that its leadership were not only on his payroll, but peddled lies about the 2020 election being stolen. Among the new hires is Christina Bobb, an attorney who represented Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case and former on-air reporter …

Wisconsin is famous for its booze. The brands Miller, Schlitz, Pabst, and Blatz were all founded in Milwaukee, a city whose baseball team is the Brewers, and which is often called the “beer capital of the world.” Across the state, bars outnumber grocery stores roughly three-to-one, for a total of …

The House of Representatives has advanced a bill that could effectively ban TikTok within the United States. The legislation will now advance to the Senate, where it will likely face a steeper road to adoption. The bill, titled the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, would require TikTok …

A judge in Georgia has dismissed some of the charges that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis brought against Donald Trump last year. Georgia Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Wednesday tossed six charges against the former president and some of his co-defendants, but let the bulk of the criminal …

Kristi Noem probably wasn’t smiling after being served a lawsuit on Wednesday. Earlier this week, the South Dakota governor released a highly produced video on multiple social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), and Truth Social, touting the dental work she had done at Smile Texas. Travelers United, …