Nikki Haley‘s 2024 presidential campaign isn’t off to a great start, in that no one seems to understand why she’s embarking on what seems to be such a hopeless endeavor. The conservative Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board even wrote on Wednesday that they see “no clear rationale” for her bid …
Read More »Grand Jury Investigating Trump: 'Perjury May Have Been Committed'
A federal judge in Georgia on Thursday released portions of a report compiled by a special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies tampered in the state’s 2020 presidential election. The material released didn’t include many details, although the grand jury did come to a consequential …
Read More »Wyden to Biden: Damn the Judge, Protect the Abortion Pill
Someday very soon, a single district court judge in Texas could order the Food and Drug Administration to withdraw its approval of mifepristone, cutting off access — nationwide — to the most widely-used abortifacient in the United States. (The earliest a decision is expected is next Friday, February 24.) If …
Read More »Fetterman Joins Countless Other Lawmakers Who Have Sought Treatment at Hospital
Sen. John Fetterman checked into Walter Reed on Wednesday night for clinical depression, his office announced on Thursday. The first-term senator from Pennsylvania’s trip to Walter Reed comes a week after he was discharged from George Washington Hospital after he began feeling ill on a Senate Democratic retreat. It also …
Read More »Marco Rubio Moves to Bring Back Trump's Trans Military Ban
Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Jim Banks have introduced legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives seeking to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military. The Ensuring Military Readiness Act would ensure that “persons who identify as transgender with ahistory of diagnosis of gender dysphoria are disqualified from …
Read More »Pentagon Finally Stops Hiding Military Overdose Epidemic
The U.S. Army Special Forces, better known as the Green Berets, has a serious problem with substance abuse and fatal drug overdoses. The same is true of the Army’s two most important infantry divisions: the 101st Airborne Division and the 82nd Airborne Division. That’s the takeaway of data released by …
Read More »Matt Gaetz Skirts Sex Trafficking Charges
The Justice Department will not charge Matt Gaetz after a prolonged investigation into whether he sex trafficked a 17-year-old girl, CNN reported on Wednesday. Gaetz’s office confirmed the news in a statement to Rolling Stone: “The Department of Justice has confirmed to Congressman Gaetz’s attorneys that their investigation has concluded …
Read More »Nikki Haley, Who Backed Trump in 2020, Says the President Shouldn't Be Old
Nikki Haley is running for president, which she may find difficult considering how she’s praised the far-more-popular candidate she’s going to have to defeat to secure the Republican nomination. The former South Carolina governor is going to need to find a way to differentiate herself from Donald Trump if she …
Read More »Satellite Images Reveal Chinese Balloon Bases
China’s spy balloon took off from a base on Hainan Island along the country’s southern coast, American intelligence reportedly believes. New satellite imagery obtained by researchers shows that the island is home to a balloon launch facility. Researchers at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies identified the facility in satellite …
Read More »Justice Department Wields Crime-Fraud Exception to Pierce Trump's Attorney-Client Privilege
Federal prosecutors are looking to cut through Former President Donald Trump’s staunch wall of lawyers by using the crime-fraud exception to compel the testimony of his lawyer, M. Evan Corcoran, before a grand jury, the New York Times reports. The crime fraud exception voids legal secrecy when a client has …
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