Politics

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a court filing on Thursday, the federal judge tasked with reviewing the FBI-seized materials from Mar-a-Lago directed federal prosecutors to begin producing the approximately 11,000 documents that were recovered last month from former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. The plan and timeline […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Thursday rolled out an agenda that he says the House GOP would follow should it retake control of the chamber after this year’s midterms. The plan, dubbed the “Commitment to America,” marks McCarthy’s most concrete attempt to outline a policy agenda to try […]

Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — During an August campaign event in Durham, North Carolina, former state Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, the Democratic candidate for Senate, proudly proclaimed that she does not support defunding the police. “It’s important that they have the resources to make sure that law enforcement officers stay safe,” she said. As […]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Democrats, hoping to notch another major legislative win before the midterm elections, will vote Thursday on a long-delayed package of changes to policing and public safety. Moderate and progressive Democrats hammered out a deal on Wednesday after frenetic negotiations — and on one of the House’s […]

Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images (MADISON, Wisc.) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announced Wednesday that he is calling a special session of the state legislature in his latest attempt to repeal a criminal abortion ban dating back to 1849 which suspended some abortion services in the state after the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade […]

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A panel of judges on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a request from the Justice Department to stay portions of a ruling by district Judge Aileen Cannon that had effectively paused the government’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s potential […]

Bruce Yuanyue Bi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, President Joe Biden on Wednesday cast the defining conflict facing global leaders as a duel between democracy and autocracy, directly responding to new threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin to escalate the war in Ukraine. The speech is Biden’s first at […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A new bill from a pair of Republican lawmakers would prevent the Biden administration from lifting key sanctions on Iran over the country’s alleged support of efforts to assassinate high-profile Americans and critics on U.S. soil. The bill, set to be introduced Wednesday by Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst and Florida […]

The Washington Post via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The number of suicides among military veterans dropped to its lowest rate in over a decade, according to a report released Monday by the Department of Veteran Affairs. The latest figures come days after a national suicide prevention nonprofit said the federal agency was underestimating the […]

NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As global leaders descend on New York City for the annual U.N. General Assembly, the body’s Secretary-General António Guterres issued a dire warning in an opening speech on Tuesday: “Our world is in big trouble.” “Divides are growing deeper. Inequalities are growing wider,” he said. “And […]