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Rep. George Santos on Wednesday faced a possible vote to expel him from the House of Representatives for what some of his colleagues call a “question of right and wrong,” although a last-minute statement from the Ethics Committee could throw a wrench in that plan. A handful of fellow GOP lawmakers sent a letter to colleagues calling it a moral issue to oust the New York lawmaker over accusations he is a “con man” and serial liar who is facing a mushrooming federal fraud trial. The letter was signed... Читать дальше...

As the son who bears his name testified in the New York City courtroom where Donald Trump is being sued for fraud, the former president Wednesday dropped a Truth Social video detailing plans for a new public university that he said would not condone support of “savages and jihadists.”

What do you do with a wife who equates homosexuality with bestiality and prescribes to an antiquated anatomical philosophy in which a key player is phlegm? If you’re Mike Johnson, first you make a joke about her spending two weeks on her knees in prayer. Then you send her to Stepford.

Judge Aileen Cannon has put off a decision for now on whether to delay former President Donald Trump's classified documents case, The Messenger reported on Wednesday.

One of the Trump Organization's executive vice presidents and former President Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., took the stand in the fraud case in New York on Wednesday afternoon.

City leaders and employees in Shawnee, Kansas, are shocked, left wondering about the future, after some employees received an email containing an explicit video of their new city manager masturbating. Doug Gerber, who was hired as city manager in March, did not personally send the video to employees. Nor was it sent from the official city computer system. It was emailed to multiple employees Sept. 29 by an anonymous third party who, in recent emails with The Kansas City Star, said they wanted to reveal Gerber’s online behavior. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — Cher will come out of “retirement” to perform in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, appearing in the lineup just before the only star big enough to have the “Believe” singer as an opener: Santa Claus. The Grammy-, Emmy- and Oscar-winner will perform at the end of the 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan, thrilling the audience before the man of the hour closes the festivities. Timing will be perfect for the 77-year-old superstar, who just released her first new album in five years... Читать дальше...

A Republican candidate for state Senate in Virginia may have lied about the happenings of a night when she claimed Black Lives Matter protesters attacked her and her child, according to a report.

A man's body was found in a suitcase floating in a California lake in what residents call a "scary" Halloween discovery, reports show.

Gabriel Sterling, the Republican chief operating officer of the Georgia Secretary of State's office, took a victory lap on Wednesday when he brandished a check his office had received from former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell.

Trump Organization lenders lost about $168 million because of the former president’s misrepresentation of his corporation’s worth, an expert witness for the prosecution testified Wednesday.

Election denialist and former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell is tussling with voting tech giant Dominion over discovery protocol in the company's billion-dollar defamation case against her and other right-wing figures, Law&Crime reported Wednesday.

When Gerard Magliocca, an Indiana University law professor, submitted a draft law review article on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for publication in December 2020, few in the world of constitutional law could have anticipated just how relevant it would become a short time later.

Ivanka Trump has filed notice that she will make another attempt not to testify in a $250 million fraud trial brought against her family's company.

Just minutes before walking into the New York Supreme Court, Donald Trump Jr. found time to call out a heckler who accused him of being addicted to cocaine.

Donald Trump keeps testing the boundaries of court-imposed gag orders – and even some of his current and former allies have conceded that he might wind up in jail.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) rushed to the defense of new House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after new reporting raised questions about his financial disclosures.

In a recent CNN interview discussing the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared to give Israel a pass on harming civilians in its military campaign in the Gaza Strip.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell complained about being called a "grifter" after media outlets reported remarks in which he claimed he lost all his money.

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), a conservative member of the House Freedom Caucus who has nonetheless been skeptical of efforts to impeach President Joe Biden, revealed on Wednesday that he will not seek another term in Congress during an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell.

Former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark has filed a special plea arguing an election subversion case against him be dismissed because it represented a "massive and grotesque abuse of prosecutorial power" by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday delivered a rambling endorsement of Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves in which he ranted that "bad people" were trying to defeat him at the polls.

The Congressional Budget Office revealed Wednesday that the Republican funding bill for Israel would ultimately add $12.5 billion to the federal deficit, despite the GOP trying to claim it would be offset by cuts in cash meant to investigate wealthy tax cheats.

A lawyer for Donald Trump tried to get the prosecution's lone expert witness dismissed Wednesday as he started to give evidence expected to detail the impact the Trump Organization's inflated valuations had.

A Republican candidate for a toss-up 2024 U.S. House seat has violated a federal law by failing to file a financial disclosure due nearly three months ago, according to a Raw Story review of federal records.