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During an appearance on MSNBC early Saturday morning, attorney Lanny Davis, who is representing former Donald Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen, targeted House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) for attempting to run interference for the former...

According to attorneys who have appeared in Judge Juan Merchan's Manhattan courtroom, the jurist is fair, patient, listens well and is, as one colleague called him, "Bright, kind of chill." That should be good news for Donald Trump who will be...

Colette Maze has been playing piano for more than a century, and is still drawing thousands of fans on social media. Born in June 1914, before the outbreak of World War I and when one of her favorite composers, Claude Debussy, was still alive, the French ...

The U.S. Capitol Police and the Senate Sergeant at Arms on Friday jointly issued a statement warning they "anticipate" Trump protests across the country. The statement is not time-specific, and it states it has no information on "credible thre...

Luisa Jimenez thought she was visiting an office to regularize her stay in Mexico, but instead she found herself detained in an immigration center similar to the one where dozens of migrants perished in a fire. "It's a holding cell, a detention ce...

While Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have taken to their social media platforms to viciously lash out at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for indicting their father on a reported 30 charges, Ivanka Trump posted a rather muted statement on her Inst...

The board of trustees for Medicare and Social Security released a report Friday showing the programs' trust funds will be able to cover all benefits and expenses until 2031 and 2034 respectively, findings welcomed by advocates as further confirmation ...

Nearly three years after a white police officer killed a Black man by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes, the city of Minneapolis announced Friday that it had approved a plan to reform its police force. The death of 46-year-old George Floyd, whose orde...

TEL AVIV-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acted in the nick of time. In an early-evening televised speech last Monday, he announced temporary suspension of the legislative process aimed at passing his governing coalition's proposed judicial overhaul....

As much as former President Donald Trump is trying to claim he is a victim of political persecution following his indictment in New York, it was his own Justice Department officials, under his own administration — along with the politically evenly d...

Now that former President Donald Trump has been indicted for his alleged $130,000 hush payment scheme in 2016, he will need to mount an effective legal defense against Manhattan prosecutors. Unfortunately, argued his "Art of the Deal" co-author To...

Since former President Richard Nixon resigned in 1973 under the threat of impeachment, constitutional law experts have debated what would happen if an incarcerated person ran for president and won. The question that has been largely theoretical for 50 yea...

Former President Donald Trump has responded to his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury by going after the prosecutor , who is Black, with a torrent of racist abuse. This is to be expected, said Trump biographer David Cay Johnston to MSNBC's Joy Reid ...

A Minnesota Republican political operative was convicted of orchestrating a sex trafficking conspiracy involving juvenile females, the Department of Justice said in a news release. Anton "Tony" Lazzaro, 32 of Minneapolis, was convicted on one coun...

This week, GOP lawmakers overruled Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's veto and passed a sweeping law limiting the rights of transgender youth across the state, both at school and in their personal lives....

Sales of super-efficient electric heat pumps are rising in the US. But what are heat pumps? And why do some call them a key climate solution?...

Steve Krakauer's new book, Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People, is a thoughtful critique of an industry that deserves to be distrusted, and in some cases despised....

A twice-elected public official stands accused of violating his duty to enforce the law, casting doubt upon his legitimacy. No, we're not talking about Democrat Andrew Warren, removed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as state's attorney in Hillsboroug...

Nate Paul , the Austin real estate developer central to allegations of illegal conduct by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , has been ordered to jail again after losing an appeal in a fraud case with a nonprofit . On Friday, the 3rd Court of Appeals in A...

A bill before Nevada lawmakers would mandate that justices of the peace in Nevada who are not members of the State Bar, such as former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore, now a Justice of the Peace in Pahrump, be required to pass a test intended fo...

TOPEKA — A throng of angry queer and transgender children marched Friday evening on the Kansas Statehouse grounds in joyful defiance of legislators who promote state-sponsored discrimination. As the crowd of 200 children and adults gathered on the s...

Two people died in a tornado that struck the eastern Arkansas town of Wynne on Friday, but as of 8:30 p.m. CDT, no fatalities had been reported from a tornado that damaged parts of west Little Rock earlier in the afternoon. Pulaski County Coroner Gerone H...

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs switched up her leadership team on Friday, just days after her press secretary resigned amid Republican outrage over a tweet. Josselyn Berry, Hobbs' press secretary, just stepped down Tuesday and now Murphy Hebert is out as...

While checking out the "banned and challenged" display at my local Barnes & Noble recently, I was reminded that the entire kerfuffle is a giant racket. For publishers and booksellers, "banned" books are likely a money-making racket. Virtua...

The Armalite 15, or AR-15, is not a military weapon that was ported to civilian use. It is a civilian rifle that later the military modified for itself. To say it is a military weapon is to repeat a talking point but reject a truth.For those who do not kn...

Twelve or 13 months from now, the race for the Republican nomination for president -- and the race for the Democratic nomination, if there is one -- will probably be over.Prognostications this far ahead of such contests have a sad history. Just ask Rudy G...

In the immediate days before he was indicted in New York for his $130,000 hush payment scheme to adult film star Stormy Daniels, former President Donald Trump really thought he had defeated Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and his public offensive...

Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday blamed nonbinary people and progressive activists for America's political unrest. The far-right congresswoman from Georgia alleged that "Transtifa" is behind insurrections in a bizarre 71-word tweet in which sh...

Bringing Donald Trump to a Manhattan courthouse next week for his arraignment presents unique security challenges, but that's not a former top law enforcement official's biggest concern. The former president plans to fly to New York on Monday befo...

Following former President Donald Trump's indictment by a Manhattan grand jury over hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, his attorney Joe Tacopina made the rounds on TV news and compared the situation to one you would see in fascist regime...

A rare species of beetle has been named after former California Gov. Jerry Brown after scientists found one on his ranch....

A top California Democrat this week proposed lifting the state's longtime ban on taxpayer-funded travel to Republican-led states—one day before Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) announced a $10 million red state campaign....

A social media influencer was convicted Friday in connection with a plot to undermine Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, the Department of Justice said. Douglass Mackey, also known as "Ricky Vaughn," was convicted of conspiracy agai...

Now that former President Donald Trump is being charged in New York in connection to a $130,000 hush payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, much of the case will rest on testimony from Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen — and Trump&#...

Donald Trump took to social media Friday to again proclaim his innocence. The former president was indicted Thursday by a Manhattan grand jury on more than 30 counts over alleged hush money payments to former adult film star Stormy Daniels. His first cour...

House Republicans are asking the American Bar Association to investigate Stanford Law School over the disruption of Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan, arguing that the law school is...

A former Donald Trump attorney is calling on the ex-president to refuse to surrender to New York authorities and remain at Mar-a-Lago, where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has promised him sanctuary. DeSantis on Thursday assailed Manhattan District Attorney Al...

Several House Democrats are allowing staffers to work from home amid concerns of possible unrest over the indictment of former President Donald Trump, Axios reports . Memories of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are cited as a key factor in the decision t...

Earlier this week, reports indicated an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Florida banned a Disney documentary about civil rights hero Ruby Bridges, the first Black girl in New Orleans to attend an integrated public school, after a parent complained tha...

President Joe Biden really struggled this week. He appeared to be suffering from a cold, which is bad news for the vast majority of America terrified at the thought of Kamala Harris becoming president. The National Council on Aging warns that...

The Biden administration on Thursday allowed California to force heavy duty truck operators to switch to electric vehicles, a policy critics say will further burden an already strained grid and raise food and energy prices....

WASHINGTON— At the U.S. Capitol, most Republicans don't like being asked questions about former President Donald Trump. Music, however, brings people together, right? And it turns out that if you play federal lawmakers the new song performed by ...

Space Force Capt. Victoria Ponder is blazing a path to success and lighting it up for young women of color to pursue careers in air and space....

UPDATE: Members of a group of Chinese Christian dissidents detained in Thailand were forced to pay fines for overstaying their visas on Friday, but their legal status remains uncertain amid deep concerns they will be forced to return to China to undoubted...

San Diego County supervisor Nathan Fletcher (D.) announced his resignation this week after several women accused him of sexual assault. One of those women says Fletcher's wife, a powerful union leader, tried to intimidate her into not coming forward....

Good morning, it's Friday, March 31, 2023, the last day of Women's History Month -- and the first day of life in a country in which a former U.S. president has been charged, dubiously, with a crime by an outspoken adversary in the opposing politic...

Claim: Liberal billionaire George Soros...

The Biden administration is considering asking African Americans on government forms, including the census, whether their ancestors were enslaved, a move that could lay the groundwork for a system of federal reparations distribution....

When Russian jets shot down a Navy plane on a routine patrol over the Bering Sea, 16 Alaska National Guardsmen heard the crash and sprang into action. More than 67 years later, they have received the...