Politics

(NEW YORK) — Dozens of prospective jurors poured back into a Manhattan, New York criminal court Tuesday morning for the second day of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Seven jurors have been selected so far to decide the legal fate of the first U.S. president ever to face criminal trial. Prosecutors allege that […]

(WASHINGTON) — Senators are expected to square off Wednesday, largely along party lines, over whether to proceed with a full-scale trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of immigration policy and the southern border. House GOP managers delivered two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas Tuesday, and the next step in the proceedings […]

(WASHINGTON) — Legal counsel for Ohio’s top election official, a Republican, sent a letter on Monday signaling that the secretary of state’s office can’t accept a proposed workaround to certifying President Joe Biden on the state’s November general election ballot amid a conflict with the Democratic National Committee over convention scheduling and confirming Biden as […]

(WASHINGTON) — Articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, over his handling of the border, were officially transmitted to the Senate on Tuesday. The House impeachment managers, selected by Republican leadership, walked the two articles through the Capitol led by the House clerk and sergeant-at-arms. The charges against Mayorkas will be read aloud […]

(WASHINGTON) — The White House on Monday released the 2023 tax returns for President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses. Those filings show the president and first lady Jill Biden had a combined federal adjusted gross income of $619,976 and paid combined federal income tax of $146,629. That’s roughly on par with […]

(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers on Tuesday he has “complete confidence” in President Joe Biden’s mental fitness for office, despite findings by special counsel Robert Hur whose report issued in February included embarrassing and disputed characterizations about the president’s memory and age. “If you’re asking me about my own observations as a […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is forging ahead with a plan to try to pass aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that’s been tied up in a political fight in Washington for months — but will the move cost him his job? Johnson laid out a proposal to split the $95 […]

(WASHINGTON) — The office of Nevada’s Secretary of State announced in a new report Monday that there was “no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Nevada” in recent years, saying a large volume of election fraud reports that the office received did not involve any actual violation of election law. Produced as a part of […]

(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump appeared in a Manhattan, New York criminal court on Monday, marking the first day of the first-ever criminal trial against a former U.S. president. Trump last April pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with alleged hush money payments his […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a high-stakes case that could invalidate felony obstruction charges for more than 300 individuals connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack — including former President Donald Trump. At issue in the case of Fischer v. United States is whether a federal law enacted […]