Politics

House Oversight Democrats are calling on committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) to use his subpoena power to investigate the foreign business dealings of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — an investigation Comer has been personally stalling for more than a year. Since Republicans gained control of the House in 2022, …

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal counts brought against him in a Georgia RICO case targeting his and his allies’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. Via a waiver submitted to the court on Thursday, Trump declined his right to an in-person …

Amongst members of the Senate, Ted Cruz (R) has a storied history of internet mishaps. From liking porn using his official X (Twitter) account to fighting with Big Bird about vaccines, the Texas Senator’s reflexive posting has made him one of the most lampoonable figures in government. But August could …

Donald Trump, once banned from YouTube, will return to the video site in an unexpected way after the Georgia judge overseeing the former president’s election interference case announced that the trial will be livestreamed on the Fulton County Court’s channel. Judge Scott McAfee announced the trial’s broadcast Thursday, soon after …

A Texas law designed to put strict controls on access to adult websites was blocked by a federal judge on Thursday, one day before it was to go into effect, in a decision that could prove a bellwether for similar legal challenges now playing out across the country. Since the …

John Eastman, one of the legal minds behindDonald Trump’s scheme to overturn the 2020 election, said he and his co-defendants in the Georgia indictment “did nothing wrong” during a Fox News interview that aired Tuesday. “We did nothing wrong. We were challenging the election for what even Vice President [Mike] …

Schools on the outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma, are being harassed with repeated bomb threats, which began the day the state’s superintendent shared a post from the right-wing account Libs of TikTok targeting a librarian in the Union Public Schools district. According to the district, bomb threats were made against various …

A federal judge has found former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani liable for defamation after spreading conspiracy theories about two Georgia election workers. The court additionally found that Giuliani failed to comply with the legal requirements of evidentiary discovery, ruling that he “refused to comply with his discovery obligations and thwarted …

The man who shot and killed three Black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville on Saturday, identified in his writings a slew of other potential targets — including Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly. In two chilling passages from writings that Rolling Stone has reviewed, Ryan Christopher Palmeter — who …

Donald Trump has lied about his golf scores, his weight, the size of the crowds he draws, and — according to New York Attorney General Letitia James — his net worth. A new filing from the Attorney General’s office in the state’s civil fraud lawsuit against the former president alleged …