Politics

(CHARLESTON, S.C.) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has announced her presidential bid in a new video released on Tuesday, a day ahead of her formal campaign kick-off in Charleston. “I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants — not Black, not white. I was different,” she says as the video she tweeted, titled […]

ftwitty/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A California man who assaulted former Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone with a stun gun during the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol pleaded guilty Tuesday to multiple felony charges. In a taped interview with the FBI following his arrest, Daniel Rodriguez admitted he drove a stun gun into the […]

(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced Tuesday that she will not run for reelection after her term is up in early 2025 but will continue serving until then. Feinstein, 89, has served in the Senate since 1992, winning several senior posts along the way. However, she recently faced pushback from progressives in Washington and California […]

(WASHINGTON) — Democrats and Republicans joined together on Tuesday in a renewed push to pass federal legislation aimed at safeguarding young people using the internet, as a mother testified her son was driven to suicide by bullying on social media. With rare bipartisan unity, lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee used a hearing to blame […]

(WASHINGTON) — Abortion rights were a key factor for some races in the 2022 midterm elections, according to exit polling. Multiple states had measures before voters about enshrining or barring the constitutional right to an abortion following the June 2022 Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade — the landmark case that had legalized the procedure […]

(WASHINGTON) — The fifth anniversary of the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, which left 17 people dead, falls just hours after the shooting at Michigan State University which left at least three people dead and is the 67th mass shooting this year. Florida lawmakers Rep. Jared Moskowitz and […]

(WASHINGTON) — The 2024 presidential race is already shaping up, with former President Donald Trump seeking to return to the White House and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley looking , as she has said, to mark a new generation of leaders. Here’s an updated list of who is running for president in 2024 and […]

(WASHINGTON) — The man who allegedly assaulted Rep. Angie Craig last week has a lengthy criminal record, including 25 bench warrants since 2014 and was experiencing homelessness, according to court documents filed on Monday. Craig, a Minnesota Democrat, was assaulted while in her Washington, D.C., apartment building last Thursday and said she was able to […]

(NEW YORK) — An appellate court in New York on Tuesday upheld a $110,000 fine imposed on former President Donald Trump over his failure to comply with a subpoena issued by the New York Attorney General’s office as part of its civil investigation of Trump and his family business. “The court correctly determined, based on […]

(WASHINGTON) — White House spokesperson John Kirby said Tuesday the intelligence community is “considering as a leading explanation” that the three objects shot down over the weekend “could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose.” But Kirby told reporters the U.S. is still not able to call them anything other than “objects” […]