Politics

(WASHINGTON) — The Equality Act, which would protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination, has been reintroduced by four Democratic legislators. Several representatives – including Representatives Mark Takano and Hakeem Jeffries and Senators Jeff Merkley, Tammy Baldwin, and Cory Booker – are behind the bill, which comes amid a nationwide rise in anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment that has led […]

(WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has told his members to vote against the resolution brought forward by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., that would impeach President Joe Biden when it comes to the floor later this week. “I just think running something on the floor isn’t fair to the American public without making the case […]

(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans, who have made one of their top priorities this session probing Hunter Biden and the Biden family’s business dealings, still say they plan to continue their investigations despite Hunter Biden’s plea deal with prosecutors. “This does nothing to our investigation,” Speaker Kevin McCarthy said outside his office Tuesday morning following news […]

RUNSTUDIO/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump “has a prolific history of baselessly accusing state and federal judges around the country of bias” and there’s no reason the judge overseeing his criminal prosecution in New York should recuse himself from the case, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Tuesday in response to a […]

(ARKANSAS) — A federal district court judge on Tuesday struck down an Arkansas law that banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The judge said the law violates the constitutional rights of transgender youth, their parents and their medical providers. “I’m so grateful the judge heard my experience of how this health care has changed my […]

(NEW YORK) — Donald Trump on Monday suggested he had been too “busy” and wanted to be sure he’d retrieved his personal belongings before complying with the federal government’s repeated demands — and, eventually, a grand jury’s subpoena — that he return classified documents he took with him when he left the White House. In […]

(NEW YORK) — An “Abolition Amendment” was introduced in Congress last week that would eliminate the so-called slavery loophole in the U.S. Constitution. Ratified in 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, “except as punishment for crime.” That exception is what three Democratic members of Congress – Rep. Nikema […]

(GEORGIA) — Allegations of election fraud against two Georgia election workers who became the subjects of a Trump-backed conspiracy theory in the aftermath of the 2020 election were found to be “false and unsubstantiated,” according to an investigative report released Tuesday by the Georgia Elections Board. Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, both […]

(WASHINGTON) — It seems clear from his comments over the years that the fatherly relationship Joe Biden has with his son Hunter outweighs concerns about appearances and political implications. Biden has long maintained he was confident Hunter, 53, one of his two surviving children, had done nothing nefarious amid a federal investigation into the younger […]

(WASHINGTON) — News that President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has agreed to a plea deal regarding a pair of tax-related misdemeanors follows a five-year Justice Department probe into the younger Biden’s finances and comes as a GOP-led congressional panel investigates what House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says are the Biden family’s “shady business […]