Politics

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is asking a judge to impose a gag order on Donald Trump in the leadup to the former president’s trial regarding hush money payments made to former porn star Stormy Daniels. The request, filed on Monday, seeks to prevent Trump from speaking out against witnesses, …

Thomas Rousseau, founder of the fascist group Patriot Front, has been arrested in Texas on a Virginia warrant for a charge of burning an object with the intent to intimidate. The burning object in question is apparently a tiki torch. The case is connected to the 2017 Charlottesville hate rallies, …

Former President Donald Trump has won the South Carolina Republican primary, demolishing his sole opponent, former Governor Nikki Haley, in her home state.The Associated Press was among the first to call the race shortly after polls closed at 7 p.m., basing it on AP VoteCast — a survey of South …

EAGLE PASS, Texas — The video is 13 seconds long. In the foreground is an orderly green lawn, lit and safe. In the background, there are the lights of Mexico, Coahuila state. In the middle is the river. It’s a void, darker than the night sky. Amid crickets, a woman’s …

Not all members of the Republican National Committee are thrilled with the idea of the party paying for Donald Trump‘s legal defense. Henry Barbour, a RNC member from Mississippi, has sponsored two draft resolutions obtained and first reported by The Dispatch, both of which have only a longshot chance of …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused President Joe Biden of “running logistics for the cartels” in Mexico. “The very first day Joe Biden came into office, he announced there would be no more deportations [of migrants]. Why would he announce that? He was sending a signal to the cartels to …

Even though Gov. Greg Abbott openly admitted he knows very little about in-vitro fertilization (IVF), he signaled he is eager for his state of Texas to put its “pro-life” stamp on the issue after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that IVF embryos are “extrauterine children” and should be treated as …

The National Rifle Association and its ex-CEO Wayne LaPierre were found liable for misspending millions of dollars on lavish perks. A New York Jury on Friday found that LaPierre, who steered the NRA for three decades, used charitable funds to pay for exotic vacations, excursions on private jets, and superyachts, …

Donald Trump, who was sued by the Justice Department in 1973 for discriminating against Black tenants, told a group of Black conservative voters that “a lot of people” have said his four indictments are the reason that “Black people like me.” In the same breath, Trump painted himself as a …

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has led a public crusade to demand that the Biden administration push Big Tech’s anti-regulation agenda worldwide — despite the fact his wife owns up to $3 million worth of stock in major tech companies that could benefit from the effort, according to financial disclosure records. …