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Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, has announced he is resigning from the organization days before the start of a civil corruption trial. LaPierre, 74, cited health reasons, according to the NRA. The resignation will be effective Jan. 31. “With pride in […]
ilbusca/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Florida abortion rights advocates on Friday said they surpassed the required number of signatures needed to put a referendum that would enshrine abortion rights in Florida’s Constitution on the state’s 2024 ballot in November. If the referendum, which needed 891,523 total verified signatures to be placed on the ballot, prevails […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Between April and September of last year, special counsel Jack Smith spent $7.3 million on his probes into former President Donald Trump, raising his total expenses to nearly $12.7 million, according to reports released Friday detailing the expenditures of Smith and other special prosecutors. Smith’s $7.3 million in expenditures between […]
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday said it would consider the appeal of former President Donald Trump’s disqualification from the Colorado GOP primary ballot. Moving with relative speed in matter that could prove consequential in the 2024 presidential election, the justices set oral arguments for Thursday, Feb. 8. Trump’s team […]
Mint Images/Getty Images (AURORA, Colo.) — Randy Roedema, a former Aurora, Colorado, police officer, will be sentenced Friday after being convicted of criminally negligent homicide and assault in the third degree in the August 2019 death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain. A jury found Roedema guilty on Oct. 13 in the first trial concerning McClain’s death. […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Harry Dunn, who struggled to defend the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and has been one of the most outspoken members of law enforcement to condemn the attack, announced Friday that he is running for Congress. Dunn, who resigned as a Capitol Police officer last month, said he […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A winter storm is moving through the Southern Plains on Friday with heavy rain and snow falling from Texas to Kansas. The storm will continue to move east with a snowy, rainy mix on the way for the Northeast this weekend. Fifteen states are on alert for winter weather from […]
FBI (WASHINGTON) — The former member of the right-wing extremist group, the Proud Boys, who went missing just before he was set to be sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison. Christopher Worrell, 52, was initially charged with assaulting law […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked the judge overseeing his federal election interference case to hold special counsel Jack Smith and members of his team in contempt of court for what they claim are “violations” of the current stay of the case as the appeals process plays […]
IronHeart/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s businesses received millions of dollars from foreign entities located in 20 different countries during his presidency, according to a new report released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight committee. The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, released the report and provided documents […]
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