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Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove said Friday that Attorney General Ken Paxton only has himself to blame for his impeachment.

A recording was released on Friday of a 911 emergency call from a homeowner reporting that the pilot of a US Marine Corps F-35 had parachuted into his backyard after ejecting from the stealth jet.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is in hot water after an offensive comment she made Friday on President Joe Biden's social media post.

A fifth-grade teacher accused this year of lewd acts with children remained employed in a Sacramento school despite earlier allegations that he had made racist remarks and other inappropriate behavior in 2020 and 2021, the Sacramento Bee reported Friday.

A judge overseeing the Colorado lawsuit seeking to block former President Donald Trump from the ballot in that state has issued an order prohibiting threats and intimidation, reported the Associated Press on Friday.

The judge overseeing the $250 million fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against Donald Trump's Trump Organization reportedly pounded the bench multiple times on Friday as he warned lawyers for Trump about using false statements in business.

Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who was arrested along with Donald Trump for allegedly trying to use the Justice Department to lean on Georgia to block its electoral count, is feuding with a fellow co-defendant in that same case.

Former Mueller investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissmann is being sued by Stefan Passantino, a Trumpworld-paid lawyer who initially represented former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, reported The Guardian's Hugo Lowell on Friday.

The U.S. Dept. of Justice unsealed an indictment against U.S. Senator Bob Menendez late Friday morning, accusing the New Jersey Democratic lawmaker of bribery as prosecutors showed photos of gold bars and nearly half-a-million dollars in cash stuffed into a jacket that bears his name and the seal of the U.S. Senate.

MIAMI -- Miami Beach mayoral candidate Mike Grieco acknowledged Thursday that an incident in which he left a bag unattended with a loaded gun inside at the South Pointe Park dog park “shouldn’t have happened,” saying he put the bag down and that “somebody grabbed it before I realized it.” “It is still my fault,” Grieco said during an interview with the Miami Herald Editorial Board. “If I’m away from it for even a second, it was my fault.” A woman walking in the open-air dog park found Grieco’s... Читать дальше...

An Oklahoma judge has been arrested in Austin, Texas, and accused of a gun-fueled road rage incident, reported KFOR on Friday.

A Jan. 6 rioter who attacked police officers with a Trump flag was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday.

Pillow magnate Mike Lindell failed Friday in his effort to block the Justice Department from reviewing information held on a phone they seized from him in a Hardees parking lot.

Megan Rapinoe, who championed social justice and fought for women's equal pay in a 17-year international career, will play her final match for the United States on Sunday against South Africa.

On Tuesday, September 19, a special election for a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives found far-right MAGA Republican and conspiracy theorist Erin Connolly Autenreith running against Democratic nominee Lindsay Powell — and Powell won.

Donald Trump's lawyers are still fighting to get their security clearance approved for the Mar-a-Lago documents case, a court status report revealed.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, a long-time climate activist, had harsh words for the fossil fuel industry on Thursday.

Rolling Stone reported Friday that Drew Findling, known as the "Billion Dollar Lawyer," is the latest attorney to leave former President Donald Trump's legal team.

The Journal of Applied Social Psychology published a study in which researchers found that individual racial attitudes significantly influence perceptions of Black and White individuals accused of a crime. The evidence reveals that those with pronounced racial biases tend to align their evaluations of Black offenders more closely with criminality stereotypes. Historically, numerous studies have emphasized the racial biases present in the American criminal justice system. Racial attitudes, both explicit (conscious) and implicit (unconscious)... Читать дальше...

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who was indicted on Friday on bribery charges, hit back at prosecutors and claimed that shadowy forces want him jailed because he's "a first-generation Latino American from humble beginnings."

Prosecutors on Friday unveiled a piece of evidence in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud case The Daily Beast reporter Jose Pagliery described as "a doozy."

Legal and political experts are expressing outrage and disgust after ProPublica's latest investigation into the alleged unethical and unlawful actions of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, with some demanding his resignation and others calling it "corruption of the highest level," "Pay. To. Play.," and one simply saying, "This sickens me."

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports the gunfire heard at 10 a.m. in the courthouse was nothing more than an accident.

Matt Gaetz is “effectively the House speaker” after wresting legislative control from Kevin McCarthy, former White House House adviser Steve Bannon said Friday.

The top Republican in the Missouri House is facing allegations he threatened to terminate the employment of a nonpartisan legislative staffer who resisted his monthslong push to hire a private company to manage constituent information.