Politics

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio to 22 years in prison — the longest sentence to date handed down for any individual charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. Prosecutors had sought 33 years in prison […]

James Devaney/GC Images (WASHINGTON) — 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 efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election make him […]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio is set to be sentenced Tuesday for his conviction on charges of seditious conspiracy and several other felonies stemming from his leadership role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. Tarrio will be the final leader of […]

Win Mcnamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — “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 senator, speak earlier this summer. Last Thursday, in a crowded […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (SALEM, N.H.) — Former Vice President Mike Pence and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who have become fast foils on the 2024 campaign trail, attended the same picnic in Salem, New Hampshire, on Labor Day, their first time in the same space since sparring at last month’s debate. But Pence slipped out shortly […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia on Sunday said that he believes a strong legal argument can be made to use the 14th Amendment to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot in 2024, citing Trump’s actions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Shortly after […]

Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — 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 comprised of more than 100 local unions […]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Bill Richardson was known for many things, the former governor of New Mexico, ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary under the Clinton administration, but one of his most significant professional achievements was working to free wrongfully detained American citizens abroad. Richardson died at 75 at his summer […]

Tasos Katopodis / Stringer/Getty Images (NEW MEXICO) — Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who also served in Congress and as secretary of the Department of Energy in the Clinton administration, has died, according to the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, the organization he founded to promote international peace and dialogue. He was 75. Richardson […]

Shaw Photography Co./Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — President Joe Biden on Saturday morning offered his first on-camera reaction to his meeting with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis falling through as he surveys Hurricane Idalia damage. “I don’t know,” Biden said in response to a shouted question as he and the first lady boarded Marine One about […]