Politics

(NEW YORK) — As bipartisan pressure continued to mount Friday on three university presidents, including calls to resign and a donor withdrawing a $100 million gift, free speech advocates are defending how they responded when asked whether calls for “genocide of Jews” would violate their campus codes of conduct. The ACLU, the organization that defends […]

(NEW YORK) — Five years into a federal probe of his personal and professional life, President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is facing additional legal exposure in the coming months after a summer punctuated by setbacks. U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a Trump-era appointee who has since been elevated to special counsel, has indicted the younger […]

(NEW YORK) — Special counsel David Weiss leveled a nine-count indictment against Hunter Biden late Thursday, accusing President Joe Biden’s son of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2020. The charges, which carry a penalty of up to 17 years in prison, include six misdemeanor charges and three felonies, including alleged […]

(MANCHESTER, N.H.) — ABC News, partnering with WMUR-TV, announced Thursday it will host a Republican presidential primary debate in New Hampshire next month, just days ahead of its first-in-the-nation GOP primary election. Held in coordination with the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, the Thursday Jan. 18 debate will take place at Saint Anselm College in […]

(WASHINGTON) — Entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shared multiple conspiratorial or controversial claims at Wednesday night’s debate, amplifying them to a new level of prominence in the 2024 race. Ramaswamy touted himself as an outsider willing to speak “truth” on stage. But most of his assertions on hot-button topics like Jan. 6, the […]

joe daniel price/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The House Rules Committee announced Thursday it will consider a resolution next week to formalize Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. House Speaker Mike Johnson said earlier this week that he believes that Republicans would get the votes they need to formalize their inquiry. House Republicans have […]

(NEW YORK) — The House voted Thursday to censure Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York for falsely pulling a fire alarm in a House office building in September. The final vote was 214-191 with five members voting present. Three Democrats voted with Republicans to censure Bowman. After the vote, Bowman stood in the well […]

(WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump is raising new alarms about what he would do if he makes it back to the White House, even referring to himself in an interview Tuesday night as a “dictator,” but only, he said, on “Day One.” At a town hall in Iowa with Fox News host Sean Hannity, the former […]

Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House on Wednesday advanced a Republican resolution to censure Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman for pulling a fire alarm, teeing up a final vote on Thursday. A Democratic motion to table the censure resolution failed by a vote of 201-216. Bowman has admitted pulling a fire alarm before […]

(DENVER) — The Colorado Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the historic challenge to Trump’s ballot eligibility in Colorado under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. During the two-hour hearing in Denver, the seven-justice court posed sharp questions central to the case, including on the definition of insurrection; whether the Capitol riot that occurred […]