Politics

Dan Goldman was sitting at his laptop in his makeshift New York office this past December when he determined George Santos, his fellow New York congressman-elect, was a fraud. The first clue was the income differences between Santos’ financial disclosures. How had he earned roughly $55,000 in 2020, then $750,000 …

UPDATE 7/21/23: James Gordon Meek pleaded guilty to one count each of transportation of child pornography and possession of child pornography. Federal prosecutors have charged former ABC News producer James Gordon Meek with transportation of child pornography, according to a criminal complaint filed in Eastern Virginia on Wednesday. Meek resigned …

House Republicans are preparing to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs Committee, with a vote coming as soon as Wednesday. Why? It could be because they just don’t really like her — for some reason! — or perhaps it’s because they want to get back at Democrats …

The FBI searched Joe Biden‘s Delaware beach house on Wednesday as it continues to investigate his handling of classified documents from his time as vice president under Barack Obama. “No documents with classified markings were found,” Biden’s attorney, Bob Bauer, announced after agents completed the search, which took three and …

The College Board has stripped down its proposed Advanced Placement African American Studies curriculum to remove topics that Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education accused of violating the state’s “Stop Woke” law. Florida blocked testing of the program in the state’s schools earlier this month on grounds …

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced plans to “reform” the state’s public higher education system by banning schools from “supporting campus activities or programs that promote divisive concepts like DEI and CRT.” The proposed reforms are the latest in a string of moves by DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education …

Four individuals suspected of having a role in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were charged in the United States on Thursday. According to the Department of Justice, three of those charged are Haitian-American citizens, the fourth is a Colombian national. Haitian-American citizens James Solages, Joseph Vincent, and …

In his bid for re-election, former President Donald Trump released a video on Tuesday and outlined a sweeping set of proposals to wield federal power to attack transgender people. In the video, posted to Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump vowed to pass a law in Congress banning gender-affirming care for …

Mark Houck, a Catholic anti-abortion activist who was accused of assaulting a 72-year-old clinic volunteer outside aPlanned Parenthoodin Philadelphia, was acquitted Monday of charges that he instigated the encounter to intimidate the organization’s workers, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The Department of Justicecharged Houk with two countsof violating the Freedom of …

The parents of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old man who died after being brutally beaten by Memphis police, will attend President Biden’s State of the Union address on Feb. 7, the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus announced. Brandon Tsay, who disarmed the Monterey Park gunman after he entered a second …