Mitch McConnell is stepping down from his post leading Republicans in the Senate. The Kentucky Republican announced on Wednesday that he’ll leave his leadership role in November. He will serve out the remainder of his term, which ends in 2027. “One of life’s most under-appreciated talents is to know when …
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Hunter Biden skewered Republican efforts to impeach his father Wednesday ahead of his closed door testimony before Congress, calling the inquiry a “destructive political charade” and the supposed evidence a “house of cards of lies.” During opening remarks before the House Judiciary and Oversight & Accountability Committees, the junior Biden …
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In response to the $454 million penalty levied against Donald Trump in his New York civil fraud case, the former president offered to pay a $100 million bond — less than a quarter of what he owes. In a court filing Wednesday, attorneys for Trump called the $454 million an …
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The Supreme Court has agreed to take up rule on whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in the Justice Department’s election interference case. The decision means a high-profile trial will be further delayed, possibly for multiple months — if it even takes place at all. The court will begin …
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Senate Republicans couldn’t put their votes where their mouths were when it comes to supporting in vitro fertilization. As the fallout continues from an Alabama court ruling that deemed frozen embryos from IVF were “extrauterine children,” Democrats pushed a vote Wednesday on the Access to Family Building Act, which would …
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President Joe Biden said that a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas could begin in roughly a week. While stopping by a Manhattan ice cream shop with Seth Meyers for a taping of his late night NBC show Monday, reporters asked the president if he had a time frame for a …
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When Josh Napravnik moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in his twenties, he found a second home at a “delightfully grimy cash-only bar” one block from the state capitol. The Silver Dollar Tavern was a place where you could spend an afternoon doing crossword puzzles at the bar, the only spot in …
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The internet could look vastly different depending on how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the question of whether tech companies’ curation of posts and users can be protected under the First Amendment. The court heard oral arguments Monday for a pair of lawsuits challenging laws passed in Texas and …
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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, …
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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, …
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