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Donald Trump's attorneys could spend "months" trying to obtain all the required security clearances to defend the former president in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, said Jamil Jaffer of the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School's National Security Institute on CNN Friday.

Pat Sajak’s retirement announcement couldn’t have come soon enough for a columnist who skewers the “Wheel of Fortune” host in a new piece.

Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has released a new song titled “81 Million Votes, My A**" -- a reference to her belief that the 2020 election was rigged. According to reports, the song as risen to the top spot on the iTunes charts.

An embattled Wisconsin Republican Party began its annual state convention today, but not before being ridiculed by Democrats over its dearth of candidates to challenge Sen. Tammy Baldwin in 2024.

He was an early backer of former President Donald Trump, and he contributed to Republicans all over the country, including those advancing anti-abortion causes. Now, tech billionaire Peter Thiel is getting involved in women's health care in a different way, reported The Daily Beast.

Donald Trump believes the “socks” case involving former President Bill Clinton exonerates him in the case against him alleging he mishandled classified documents.

Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis says he would have loved to hang our with Jesus and his disciples, and thinks America needs more God.

The U.S. government analyst who became one of the most famous whistleblowers in history when he leaked the Pentagon Papers has died, according to news reports.

Former President Barack Obama voiced criticism of GOP presidential hopefuls Tim Scott and Nikki Haley, accusing them of being part of a "long history" of Black or minority Republicans downplaying racism.

At around 3:18 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, a rioter pulled Officer Michael Fanone into the crowd, where he was tased and beaten, as an angry mob continued to try to break into the U.S. Capitol building. The Lower West Terrace was the scene of some of the most violent skirmishes. Roughly 30 minutes later, Republican Sen. Janae Shamp, of Surprise, was in the crowd, watching things unfold.

The nation’s top consumer finance watchdog told a U.S. Senate committee this week that practices uncovered by ProPublica’s investigation into HomeVestors of America are “very troubling” and said the Department of Justice and state attorneys general should be made aware of such actions.

Historians and futurists tell us that we are moving into a new era, a Fourth Turning. It certainly feels that way.

Donald Trump claims he sent federal agents to Florida to help Ron DeSantis win the governor's race, but that turned out to be a lie.

Reacting to a Donald Trump Truth Social post that labeled the founders of the advocacy group The Lincoln Project as "Perverts and Misfits," after they created a new ad ridiculing his 37-count felony indictment, the group's Rick Wilson has responded in kind -- and in a video where the former leader of the free world was labeled by Wilson as a "mendacious scumbag."

ORLANDO, Fla. — A tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa is more likely to form into a tropical depression or storm as it steams toward the Caribbean this week, the National Hurricane Center said. In its 8 a.m. Friday tropical outlook, the NHC said the system located between the west coast of African and the Cape Verde Islands was producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. “Environmental conditions appear to be conducive for gradual development, and a tropical depression could... Читать дальше...

A Detroit police sergeant who is facing a $10 million wrongful arrest lawsuit by a woman who was accused of credit card theft, only to have the charged later dropped, was almost fired from his department in 2020 after he abused his girlfriend and called her the N-word, WXYZ reported.

A fraudulent check scam cost the Oregon Republican Party more than $800, making the political group the latest victim in a string of attacks targeting campaigns and committees this year.

The United States Department of Justice on Friday released a scathing report about the practices of the Minneapolis Police Department that included documented incidents of racial profiling and excessive force.

Donald Trump's attempt to paint his 37-count federal indictment brought by the DOJ as a "political" move that would cripple his presidential run suffered a major blow on Tuesday when special counsel Jack Smith omitted a charge that would have barred him from public office.

The top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee accused her Republican colleagues on Thursday of increasing the likelihood of a government shutdown by approving spending numbers below the levels set under the bipartisan debt ceiling agreement, which hasn't even been law for two weeks.

New York (AFP) - An American man was found guilty on Friday of massacring 11 Jewish worshippers five years ago in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history, local media reported.

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin called out a fatal flaw in the Republican challenge to Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination.

B.B. King, whose scorching guitar licks and heartfelt vocals made him the idol of generations of musicians and fans while earning him the nickname King of the Blues, died late Thursday at home in Las Vegas. He was 89.

Carrie Fisher fans haven’t seen the last of the “Star Wars” icon, whose last film ‘Wonderwell’ is heading to theaters nearly a decade after her sudden death. Vlad Marsavin’s fantasy flick, which the late “Postcards from the Edge” author finished filming just weeks before her 2016 death, will hit theaters in North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland next week, Deadline reports. “The journey we have taken as filmmakers with this movie, has been as perilous as that of the movie itself,” Marsavin told the outlet Wednesday. Читать дальше...

At the same time that Donald Trump was being arraigned in a Florida courtroom on a 37-count federal indictment alleging conspiracy and violations of the Espionage Act, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) allowed Rep. Matt Gaetz to use a room in the Capitol complex to hold a sham hearing on the Jan. 6 insurrection which was carried by live by CSPAN was carried by live by CSPAN.