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As new Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) comes to grips to the new reality of his position, he is also facing the reality of all the power he gave away in order to get there.

As ceremonies mark the 100th anniversary of when a white mob attacked and burned down the Black town of Rosewood, Florida, we look at the largely untold story of how a racist mob murdered at least six Black residents and forced the rest of the town to flee. Many eyewitnesses said the true death toll was far higher. The bloodshed began after a white woman accused a Black man of assault, resulting in several days of violence by the white mob that ultimately destroyed the once-thriving community. Читать дальше...

Progressive California Rep. Katie Porter announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate this Tuesday, saying that her state "needs a warrior in Washington" who will stand up to powerful banking, oil and pharmaceutical interests.

Yet another longtime associate of former President Donald Trump is headed to prison.

More information is being revealed in the Donald Trump tax returns that were released by the House Ways and Means Committee last month. Among the findings were that Trump gave loans to his adult children with a pretty sweet interest rate.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) again called to "impeach Biden" after President Joe Biden's attorneys said they found and turned over classified documents to the National Archives.

Rebellious Republicans who withheld their votes from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for multiple days last week were directly pressured by a major GOP donor to back off or see their campaign contributions go up in smoke.

As newly-elected Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) delivered her first State of the State speech, only a handful of Republican lawmakers acknowledged her position and presence. Now, a new analysis is explaining how their actions might be problematic for their political futures.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) attacked the Republican House officials for the budget cuts to the Ethics Committee at a time when he says many of its own members have documented ethics problems.

NEW YORK — Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s convicted chief financial officer, is expected to be sentenced to jail time on Tuesday for scheming to dodge taxes at the former president’s company. Weisselberg, 75, is slated to appear before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to learn his fate. Prosecutors previously promised to endorse a five-month stint on Rikers Island if Weisselberg testified truthfully at the company’s criminal tax fraud trial, which ended in two entities’ convictions on Dec. Читать дальше...

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speculated on Tuesday that conservative commentator Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway had died at the age of 51 due to the Covid-19 vaccine — even though she had been an opponent of the shot.

Fifteen people have been declared dead so far in the torrential downpours that hit all of California from Los Angeles to the Oregon border. One five-year-old boy is still missing after being swept away in flood waters in San Miguel. Police announced that the search for the boy had to be paused because the weather was too unpredictable for them to continue without endangering the lives of the first responders.

Donald Trump's tax returns reveal he was a bigger national security risk than previously understood.

A neuroimaging study showed that the brains of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show different functional cartography of certain brain nodes and the nodes have different roles compared to typically developing children (without an autism spectrum disorder). Findings suggest that these alteration to topology of brain nodes may start occurring at very early ages in children with autism. The study was published in Autism Research. Recent neuroimaging studies of human brain functioning... Читать дальше...

Appearing on MSNBC on Tuesday afternoon, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele criticized the newly-elected House Republican leadership over their plans to gut the ethics committee, which will have the practical effect of protecting members of their own caucus.

A federal judge sentenced a notorious U.S. Capitol rioter to two months in prison for his actions during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

(Reuters) - A Washington, D.C., appeals court on Tuesday considered whether Donald Trump should be immune from author E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit stemming from the former U.S. president's 2019 denial that he raped her.

After watching House Republicans squabble and almost come to blows over the selection of a new speaker after taking control of the chamber in the midterms, the former editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal expressed his disgust with the state of the GOP in a blistering column.

By Elizabeth Pineau and Caroline Pailliez

PARIS (Reuters) -The French should work two years longer before they can retire, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said, detailing an unpopular reform of the pension system that risks strikes and will test President Emmanuel Macron's ability to deliver change.

The long-delayed overhaul pushes the retirement age to 64, a move opposed by four in every five citizens according to an Odoxa poll, at a time when many are already struggling with a cost-of-living crisis. Читать дальше...

The discovery of classified documents at a private office used by President Joe Biden could complicate the investigation into similar documents found at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, according to a new report from Politico

The co-hosts of "The View" debated the recent report that President Joe Biden had ten government documents in his storage closet at the Penn Biden Center from when he was the vice president. The president's lawyers claim that they immediately turned them over to the National Archives when they were discovered.

A Chicago attorney apologized after she was caught on video using a racial swear and utter an obscenity during a court hearing.

A former US marine accused of illegally training Chinese military pilots believes his arrest was politically motivated and will fight extradition from Australia, his lawyer said Tuesday.

French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo doubled down on its ridicule of Iran's religious rulers on Tuesday, with fresh cartoons of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei despite protests from Iran and its allies.

U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), the former chair of the far-right House Freedom Caucus and an extremist whose own family members called for him to be removed from office over his activities surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, on Monday labeled First Lady Dr. Jill Biden “compromised” and said she must be investigated.