UPDATE 11:40 AM EDT 9/17/21: A prominent lawyer for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign on Friday pleaded not guilty to making a false statement to the FBI in a charge stemming from a probe of the U.S. government’s investigation into Russian election interference.
Michael Sussman appeared Friday in D.C. federal court before...
(Headline USA) One of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for his alleged role in "inciting" the Jan. 6 siege at the Capitol announced Thursday night he will not seek reelection in Ohio next year.
U.S. Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, a former NFL player with a...
(Associated Press) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has warned Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen he is not budging on his demand that Democrats go it alone on the federal debt limit, deepening the emerging standoff in Congress over how to boost the government's borrowing authority.
Doug Andres, a spokesman for McConnell, said...
(Headline USA) Commissioners in Fulton County hired a former Atlanta City Council president to lead their election board as a state panel reviews how elections are conducted in Georgia's most populous county.
The Fulton County Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to appoint Cathy Woolard to chair the five-person county Board of...
(Headline USA) As tens of thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban arrive in the U.S., former Trump administration officials are warning about the long-term risks of backing President Joe Biden's solution to his self-inflicted catastrophe.
The former officials are writing position papers, appearing on conservative television outlets and meeting...
(Headline USA) With the Biden administration's public approval underwater and outrage growing over failed leftist policies that have had severe consequences, including massive inflation, Democrats undertook the spectacle of pretending to negotiate over a radical budget bill that could put the nail in the coffin of US fiscal solvency.
Democrats...
(Associated Press) A Michigan lawmaker ordered to jail in a drunken driving case is accused of taping a handcuff key to his foot.
The key was discovered when state Rep. Jewell Jones, a Detroit-area Democrat, was placed in jail Tuesday for violating bond conditions, authorities said.
"He truly believes that he doesn’t...
(Headline USA) An federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed the Biden administration's selective criteria on who should be deported to remain in effect, rejecting one of Texas' challenges to the president's lax or nonexistent immigration policies.
The administration's victory may prove temporary if Texas or Louisiana successfully seek the intervention...
(Associated Press) A committee charged with representing tens of thousands of alleged victims of child sex abuse in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy asked the judge on Wednesday to terminate the BSA’s exclusive rights to file a reorganization plan, so that it can file its own.
The committee’s court...
(Headline USA) The City Council in Portland, Oregon, abandoned a plan to boycott Texas businesses because of a new law that prohibits most abortions there, deciding Wednesday to instead set aside $200,000 to support abortions within its own jurisdiction.
The far-left city made headlines earlier this month when Mayor Ted...
(Headline USA) A divided federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging a portion of the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of Americans' international email and phone communications.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the lawsuit must be dismissed after the government...
(Associated Press) Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles told Congress in forceful testimony Wednesday that federal law enforcement and gymnastics officials turned a “blind eye” to USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of her and hundreds of other women.
Biles told the Senate Judiciary Committee that “enough is enough” as...