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Environmental protection advocates and immigrant rights campaigners expressed horrow Wednesday over a Department of Homeland Security plan entered into the Federal Register that will waive more than two dozen laws in order to expedite the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Just hours after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) became the first House Speaker in U.S. history to be voted out of his position by Congress, interim speaker Patrick McHenry (R-NC) evicted former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) from their "hideaway" offices on Capitol Hill.

CHESTERFIELD, Missouri — The Mercy health system plans to roll out a series of artificial intelligence-based tools in the coming months, in partnership with Microsoft. Mercy, based in a St. Louis suburb, is the sixth largest Catholic health care provider in the country, operating in four states. Its efforts are still in the early stages, but if they succeed, officials believe the technology could help patients navigate the health care system, reduce burden on medical staff and monitor for errors. Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Wednesday to rage against New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is prosecuting a civil fraud case that could ultimately strip the former president of control of his businesses in the state.

Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday that after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted as House Speaker, the Republican House caucus meeting nearly came to blows as members vented their fury.

Two Republican members of Congress violated a decade-old financial disclosure and conflicts-of-interest law by reporting personal financial transactions months late, according to federal financial documents reviewed by Raw Story.

The Wisconsin Senate's GOP president called for the impeachment of the state's nonpartisan top elections official as Democrats work to reverse a Senate vote to fire her, according to reports.

In a peculiar livestream gone wrong, "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli tried to go to the first day of accused cryptocurrency exchange fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried's trial in New York City — but spent much of the time wandering confusedly around Manhattan, not knowing where he was or how to navigate the area, according to a livestream he made that was reported by The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

The Fox News network – and many Donald Trump supporters – have spent hours since Tuesday's ousting of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) fantasizing about the former president taking over the role.

A Toms River man who admitted to pushing a police officer outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 will spend the next 18 months in prison, well below what attorneys suggested he serve behind bars. Salvatore Vassallo, 60, pleaded guilty in May to assaulting, resisting or impeding a police officer, in federal court in Washington, D.C. Federal sentencing guidelines for his case call for 24 to 30 months, and a federal prosecutor argued he get 27 months. His own lawyer suggested 24 months behind bars. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday he wanted to attend his Manhattan fraud trial to draw media attention to how “corrupt” the New York attorney general’s high-stakes case against his family real estate empire is — and then he hit the road. “Why attend? Because I want to point it out to the press, how corrupt it is — ’cause nobody else seems to be able to do it,” Trump said outside the courtroom, railing against the judge and attorney general Letitia James before leaving the courthouse. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — An NYPD sergeant accused of mercilessly beating a man after being called to his Harlem apartment to calm an autistic teen in crisis was arraigned on misdemeanor assault charges Wednesday — and has been demoted. His wrists handcuffed behind him under his blue suit coat, Christian Zapata fidgeted nervously as he pleaded not guilty to the Dec. 7 incident in which he pummeled Jerome Collins’ face — all because Collins, 43, asked the sergeant and his officers to wear surgical masks. Zapata punched Collins... Читать дальше...

In the middle of an interview with U.S Senator John Kennedy, Fox News interrupted the Louisiana Republican for some “breaking news,” as the right-wing cable network’s Peter Doocy began to ask White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the chaos caused by ousting Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday.

A Capitol rioter who attacked a police officer and a Reuters cameraman on Jan. 6, 2021 has been sentenced to more than four years in prison, The Washington Post reported.

New York Attorney General Letitia James left the Manhattan courthouse Wednesday to tell the press that Donald Trump had left the building and was not expected to attend any more of his fraud trial.

Republican lawmakers are beginning to deal with the aftermath of some of the deals Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made now that they're searching for the House's next speaker.

A supporter of Donald Trump blamed voter fraud charges against him on bad blood between the former president and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

The ongoing strike by the United Auto Workers has cost General Motors Co. $200 million and the Detroit automaker has established a $6 billion line of credit, according to a filing Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. GM's move came on the 20th day of the union's unprecedented strike against it and crosstown rivals Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis NV. GM is the only automaker yet to be spared in one of the union's strike expansion announcements as part of its targeted plant strike strategy. Читать дальше...

“Thirty years ago,” Damon Linker told The Guardian, “if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in the wings to impose a dictatorship on the United States, you would have said that I was insane.”

Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) had some fighting words for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and his allies who successfully ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as House speaker this week.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani insisted on Wednesday that alcoholism did not impact his significant accomplishments.

Brent Lee was once a far-right conspiracy theorist, obsessing over "the Illuminati" and claiming that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were orchestrated by the United States' federal government. When terrorists bombed the London Underground in 2005 and killed 52 people, Lee believed that the U.K. government — led by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair — was behind the attack.

In a post to Truth Social this Wednesday, Donald Trump pointed to an article published in the New York Law Journal that suggests the judge in Trump's civil fraud case in Manhattan may have misunderstood "the scope of the New York State Executive Law provision which he relied upon to call for such 'cancellation' and dissolution of the former president's LLCs."

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron after the judge placed a gag order on court participants.

Donald Trump has appealed a New York judge's ruling that found him and his family's business liable for fraud.