Politics

Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts, former President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched attacks on the Manhattan district attorney and judge overseeing his case — despite the judge’s request that both sides refrain from making inflammatory public comments. Trump called Alvin Bragg a “failed district attorney” and […]

Hill Street Studios via Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Brandon Johnson, a progressive who won the Windy City’s mayoral race against moderate Democrat Paul Vallas, and Janet Protasiewicz, who won an open seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court against GOP-aligned Dan Kelly, clinched victory with muscular support for top issues like abortion rights while fending off avalanches […]

Seth Herald/Getty Images (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — The Republican-led Tennessee House of Representatives held a hearing to vote to expel three Democratic members on Thursday over their involvement in a gun control protest last week following the Nashville school shooting. After a day-long hearing, the House voted to expel Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, but not Rep. […]

ilbusca/Getty Images (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Two Democratic lawmakers have been ousted from the Republican-controlled Tennessee state House of Representatives and one was allowed to stay in what marks the first partisan expulsion in the state’s modern history. State Rep. Justin Jones, the first lawmaker expelled when lawmakers voted to adopt HR65, called the resolution “a […]

ilbusca/Getty Images (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — The Republican-controlled Tennessee state House of Representatives convened on Thursday to vote on ousting three Democratic lawmakers, which, if successful, would mark the first partisan expulsion in the state’s modern history. The legislative session was underway as of Thursday afternoon but the expulsion vote hadn’t yet started. Protesters gathered both […]

belterz/Getty Images (MADISON, Wis) — Wisconsin’s high-stakes Supreme Court race culminated Tuesday in a victory for the liberal candidate and a fiery, bitter concession speech by the conservative contender that underscored the acrimony by the end of their contest — the most expensive such election in history. Dan Kelly, a former justice on the high court […]

Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s indictment in New York is historic: never before has a former president been indicted for an alleged crime. The closest would have been former President Richard Nixon, who was on the cusp of being indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts for his […]

North Carolina General Assembly (RALEIGH, N.C.) — North Carolina state Rep.Tricia Cotham announced Wednesday she is switching parties, giving Republicans the supermajority needed to override vetoes from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. The freshman state representative, who said she was “welcomed with open arms by my [new Republican] colleagues,” attributed the switch to Democrats’ restrictions on the […]

Patricia Marroquin/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Brandon Johnson, a former public school teacher, will become Chicago’s next mayor. Vallas conceded to Johnson on Tuesday even though the Chicago Board of Elections reported that mail-in votes for the runoff election will not be counted for days. “To the Chicagoans who did not vote for me, here’s what […]

Patricia Marroquin/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Election day in Chicago will not only decide the next mayor of the city, but it also promises to end a campaign season that has polarized Chicagoans about which segment of the Democratic Party will ultimately lead the city. Tuesday is a run-off election between Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson […]