Category Politics

Donald Trump is weighing in on a brewing legal battle over whether he should have access to the ballot in 2024. While he has denied all wrongdoing, a growing number of conservative scholars have raised the constitutional argument that Trump’s…

President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday following first lady Jill Biden testing positive Monday night, the White House said. “He is not experiencing any symptoms,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at her daily White House briefing,…

A three-judge panel on Tuesday unanimously struck down Alabama’s recently redrawn congressional map, finding that that the GOP-drafted plan did not comply with the Voting Rights Act as it did not create a second district in which Black voters would…

The Senate is set for an uncertain and busy return from its August recess Tuesday, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s health in question and a stocked to-do list looming. The longtime GOP leader last week appeared to freeze for…

“Do you think you’re not too nice to do the job that needs to get done?” That was the question that had been on 70-year-old JoElla Duprey’s mind since she first heard Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott, South Carolina’s junior…

President Joe Biden celebrated Labor Day with remarks in front of a union crowd in Philadelphia. Biden, who says he’s the most pro-union president in history, spoke at the Tri-State Labor Day Parade hosted by the Philadelphia AFL-CIO, which is…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s alarming health episode this week has just added to a debate over age already dominating the campaign trail. Although it’s not clear why the the 81-year-old McConnell’s appeared to freeze during a news conference —…

Two former members of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group were sentenced Friday for their roles in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — one of whom received a sentence that is tied for the longest in the…

A new proposed rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would increase what is required to obtain a federal firearms license (FFL) for gun sellers across the country — an attempt to end what gun control advocates…

Army attack helicopter pilot Larry Taylor scrambled to rescue a small patrol of soldiers surrounded by enemies on the ground in Vietnam, according to a dramatic account he and the men he helped save tell about the life-and-death moments more…