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Donald Trump took to social media to gloat on Saturday after his ally, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, was narrowly acquitted on corruption charges in his own impeachment trial, which was greenlit by fellow Republicans.

In his first statement since being narrowly acquitted on corruption charges in his own impeachment trial, which was greenlit by fellow Republicans, Paxton turned his attention toward the current president.

The impeachment inquiry into president Joe Biden is less like the Donald Trump impeachments and more like today's version of the Benghazi hearings, according to an Atlantic writer.

After the Texas Senate acquitted Attorney General Ken Paxton of 16 articles of impeachment on Saturday, legal experts were quick to react.

This article was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

During an appearance on MSNBC with host Alex Witt, former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) had a field day making jokes about Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and the very bad week she endured after she was unceremoniously booted out of the musical "Beetlejuice" a week ago.

Sitting down with the MSNBC host, Riggleman, who assisted the House select committee investigating Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection, immediately smirked when the embattled Colorado Republican's name was mentioned.

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In a previewed clip of new Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker's interview with former President Donald Trump, the MAGA hopeful said that he plans to take the stand and testify under oath in his May 2024 Mar-a-Lago classified documents trial.

According to former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, Donald Trump could be on the hook for "serious" financial sanctions levied by United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan if he continues to ignore her admonitions about what he can say about his ongoing trial.

Reacting to a report that special counsel Jack Smith is asking for a gag order to keep the former president from harassing witnesses and investigators, Lam suggested that, even if a limited gag order is put in place... Читать дальше...

Comedian and YouTube personality Russell Brand is pushing back at new accusations that he sexually assaulted three women and a teenager according to the BBC.

In interviews with CNN, supporters of Donald Trump -- who is facing criminal trials in Florida, Washington D.C., Manhattan and Georgia -- blew off concerns he could be a convicted felon by the time the 2024 presidential election rolls around.

In a teaser for the upcoming "Meet the Press" interview with Donald Trump, NBC is reporting the former president gave a rambling answer about his age to new host Kristen Welker and fell back on boasting about a test he was given 3 years ago to gauge his mental competency and the possibility of dementia.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Saturday Show," former Republican Party insider Tim Miller explained that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is stuck between a rock and a hard place as he tries to placate both the moderates and the extremists in his caucus.

Buffeted by both sides over a house impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden and a battle over the upcoming budget deadline, Miller suggested the GOP leader may not remain the GOP leader much longer.

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A coalition of nearly 90 progressive groups and labor organizations condemned U.S. House Republicans on Friday for threatening a destructive government shutdown as they push for steep and unpopular cuts to education, healthcare, food aid, and environmental protection programs.

The war between Republican House members and the Department of Justice ramped up on Friday morning when a senior FBI agent showed up for an interview with House investigators accompanied by two attorneys which led to threats of calling Capitol police.

According to a report from the Washington Post's Jaqueline Alemany and Devlin Barrett, agent Elvis Chan showed up to testify in a closed-door meeting and immediately incurred the wrath of an investigator working for House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-OH). Читать дальше...

Former US president Donald Trump courted evangelical Christians and women at two back-to-back Washington events on Friday -- voting blocks whose loyalties to him once seemed contradictory but have now become a well-established part of his base.

The number of people thought to have died in the fast-moving wildfire that tore through part of Hawaii last month dropped Friday, as authorities revised their figures.

The US state of California sued five of the world's largest oil companies on Friday, alleging the firms caused billions of dollars in damages and misled the public by minimizing the risks from fossil fuels, according to a court filing.

Mexico on Friday extradited the son of Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States to face narcotics charges, US Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to narrowly limit the speech of defendant Donald Trump in the federal government's case prosecuting the ex-president's alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. One legal expert praising the DOJ's move says it also puts it "one step closer to raising the concern that Trump's intimidation of witnesses violates his conditions of release," while another says at this point DOJ had "no choice."

Orlando, Florida Republicans voted to nix a mandatory loyalty pledge Friday, officially agreeing to back ex-President Donald Trump over his rival and the Sunshine State's governor, Ron DeSantis, Orlando Sentinel reports.

Republican presidential candidates including ex-President Donald Trump made appearances at the Washington, DC-based Pray Vote Stand Summit Friday night in efforts to win over the right-wing Christian evangelical base, The Daily Beast reports.

It may sound like an insensitive statement, but the cold hard truth is that there are a lot of stupid people in the world, and their stupidity presents a constant danger to others. Some of these people are in positions of power, and some of them have been elected to run our country. A far greater number of them do not have positions of power, but they still have the power to vote, and the power to spread their ideas. We may have heard of “collective intelligence,” but there is also “collective... Читать дальше...

The media is interpreting the relationship between rightwing billionaires and Supreme Court justices as good old fashioned corruption, as if they’re trying to buy votes. But what if, instead, it’s actually something far more insidious than that?

Legal experts looking on from afar are calling Donald Trump's efforts to rid himself on the judge overseeing the $250 million fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against his Trump Organization a ploy that will likely fail, but he has little choice because the case against him is so strong.

In interviews with the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, the move by Trump's lawyers to use an Article 78 to challenge Justice Arthur F. Engoron, claiming he can't be impartial, was... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump will be the subject of a narrow gag order in his federal elections case if Special Counsel Jack Smith gets his way, but there is a "less problematic" answer for Judge Chutkan, according to a former federal prosecutor.