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New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters has been in the courtroom watching the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case against Fox News, and he said it's becoming clear the network's lawyers "are on thin ice."

A Florida Republican on Wednesday doubled down on a controversial anti-drag bill.

In an interview on Fox News with Tucker Carlson that aired Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump told the host that people “were actually crying” in the Manhattan courthouse as he was being arraigned on charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert is facing yet another challenger, and this time it's from a fellow Republican who considers himself to "the left" of the controversial figure serving her second term as the Representative for Colorado's Third Congressional District.

The Shelby County Commission voted unanimously to reappoint Justin Pearson to the state House seat Republicans expelled him from six days ago.

Jim Jordan on Monday announced plans to hold hearings in New York next week with the apparent intent of highlighting crime in the city where former President Donald Trump is facing 34 felony counts related to allegedly covering up hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.

Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee are reportedly "supercharged" by the opportunities they see in the wake of the expulsion of two of their members last week.

Following in the footsteps of Hershey chocolate, Coke, M&M's and others, Bud Light is the latest major food or drink product to get caught in the conservatives' culture war. Prominent right-wing figures, including politicians and celebrities, are boycotting the beer line. Their reasoning? A partnership between the beer and 26-year-old trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. The boycotting effort has become a messy spectacle, with Anheuser-Busch — Bud Light's parent company — holding firm on the collab... Читать дальше...

Now-former state Rep. Liz Harris (R) has been expelled from the Arizona House of Representatives after she presented a witness that accused fellow Republicans of baseless conspiracy theories.

NPR has become one of the first media organization’s to voluntarily leave Twitter after falsely being labeled “state-affiliated media” last week. The public radio outlet “paused” tweeting last week after the label was affixed to its accounts. “NPR’s organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by implying that we are not editorially independent,” it said in a statement. “We are not putting our journalism on platforms... Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump is suing his ex-attorney Michael Cohen for $500 million, claiming "multiple breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion, and breaches of contract by virtue of Defendant’s past service as Plaintiff’s employee and attorney."

An extensive piece in Vanity Fair about Rupert Murdoch, his children and his last marriage, it was revealed that the News Corp. kingpin is obsessed with the HBO show "Succession."

A man described as Donald Trump's "most loyal aide" has been interviewed by special counsel Jack Smith's team in preparation for an obstruction of justice case against the former president.

Missouri State Sen. Mike Moon (R) this week defended the rights of parents to marry off children as young as 12 years old.

For the first time, the world is seeing two simultaneous outbreaks of the Marburg virus – one in Equatorial Guinea, the other in Tanzania. The Marburg virus is just as deadly as Ebola, to which it is closely related, but it has been extremely rare until now.

The trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, also known as the "doomsday mom," was abruptly adjourned this Wednesday with almost no explanation, the New York Post reported.

In at least two states across America governments are trying to shutter public libraries in response to legal action attempting to overturn bans on books conservatives oppose, while one Republican U.S. Congressman is calling public libraries "liberal grooming centers."

A judge on Wednesday said that he would appoint a special master tasked with determining whether Fox News withheld crucial evidence in the defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems.

Donald Trump's bombastic lawyer, Joe Tacopina, may run into some problems with his work on the hush money case brought by the Manhattan District Attorney, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Security video shows a 29-year-old schizophrenic man locked in solitary confinement starving to death over three weeks, a lawsuit claims.

Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert is wasting taxpayers’ money by “showboating” about the number of committee hearings the House GOP is holding, according to experts who spoke to Newsweek.

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Abortion rights advocates reacted to a new ruling severely curtailing access to medication abortion with anger and disappointment — but also a resolve to make it a “defining issue” in 2024.

Anti-abortion advocates won a major victory with Friday’s decision from Texas federal Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk. His ruling stays the initial approval of mifepristone... Читать дальше...

Led by Rep. Matt Gaetz and other far-right members of the House GOP, Republican lawmakers are intensifying their push to establish new work requirements for millions of people who receive Medicaid and federal nutrition assistance, an effort that progressives slammed as a cruel attack on the poor.

TOPEKA — Senate President Ty Masterson and Rep. Kristey Williams delivered a series of inaccurate statements on gun violence, public school cuts and special education funding during an hourlong public forum Saturday in Augusta.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's presidential primary is scheduled for the first day of Passover next year, potentially disenfranchising observant Jews across the state and giving new urgency to lawmakers hoping to move the state's primary election to earlier in the year. The primary is scheduled for April 23, 2024, and Passover begins the previous evening. Traditional Jewish law prohibits many regular activities such as driving, writing, working and the use of electricity on the holiday, which... Читать дальше...