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Democrats emerged from an all-caucus meeting on Tuesday with little consensus on what to do about President Joe Biden's presidential campaign, which they now believe is on life support.

The future of a powerful far-right House caucus remains uncertain after one member's loyalty to former President Donald Trump triggered his ouster and raised the specter of departures to come.

FRANKFORT — A Taylor Swift ticket giveaway worth thousands of dollars and aimed at incentivizing more people to donate blood worked, Kentucky Blood Center donor numbers show.

Some prominent Arizona Republicans are preparing for an uphill battle in their attempt to restore voter confidence in the state’s elections.

A man dropped a child head-first off a second-floor balcony to “scare him a little bit” hours after he met the boy’s mother at a hotel pool, police in Daytona Beach said.

There's still a chance former President Donald Trump could still face damage criminal hearings before the November election in his January 6 election conspiracy case — and he's scrambling to prevent that from happening.

Former President Donald Trump emerged from behind his alleged wall of silence Tuesday morning to lash out against Republicans who refuse to obey his orders and a political opponent he called an "incapacitated moron" in President Joe Biden.

A former Latinos For Trump attorney is set to plead guilty to being part of the Jan. 6 uprising, Newsweek reported Tuesday.

After the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its controversial 6-3 presidential immunity ruling in Trump v. the United States, progressive legal expert Elie Mystal emphasized that it was important to make a distinction between "qualified immunity" and "absolute immunity." The High Court, Mystal warned, has given U.S. presidents "absolute immunity" from criminal prosecution for "official" acts — not merely "qualified immunity" — and is, in essence, encouraging presidents to break the law with impunity. Читать дальше...

A trio of brothers who are a part of one of luxury real estate’s most famous families are at the center of an FBI rape and sexual assault investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Former President Donald Trump is once again trying to excuse his comments in defense of some neo-Nazi demonstrators in the 2017 Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally — and in an editorial for MSNBC, Jarvis DeBerry is having none of it.

WASHINGTON — Kevin McCarthy’s 2024 revenge tour is far from over.

Next stop: Arizona, where McCarthy, the former House speaker, hopes to exact 10 pounds of flesh from one of the eight Republicans who orchestrated his inglorious ouster last year.

That fellow GOPer is first-term Rep. Eli Crane, a retired Navy SEAL who currently holds Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District.

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Crane confirmed to Raw Story that McCarthy is gunning for him. Читать дальше...

COLUMBUS – First lady Jill Biden rallied Democrats in a west Georgia community that’s home to one of the country’s largest military bases Monday as the Biden-Harris campaign works to tamp down concerns after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance in Atlanta more than a week ago.

The Appeal to Heaven flag, a.k.a. the Pine Tree Flag, was around long before Donald Trump's presidency or the MAGA movement. It goes back to colonial times and pre-dates the signing of the United States' Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) this week dodged a question about whether he'd support a violent uprising to overthrow the current United States government.

Far-right conspiracy theorist webcaster Alex Jones is not happy with former President Donald Trump's about-face on Project 2025.

Donald Trump’s spurned second wife has “forgiven” the ex-president and is revved up to help him win the presidency — and even sees herself as a possible vice president.

Morning Joe ridiculed Donald Trump Tuesday for hiding out in a ‘hermetically-sealed caddy shack” in a desperate effort to keep attention on Joe Biden.

Former President Donald Trump radically remade the United States Supreme Court when he appointed three right-wing justices who have upended American law by overturning several long-term precedents, most famously the right to an abortion that was established by Roe v. Wade.

During the 2016 presidential race, "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance was a scathing critic of Donald Trump and argued that he would be terrible for the Republican Party if he won the election.

Ohioans need to be making at least $20.81 an hour working a full-time job to be able to afford a “modest” two-bedroom apartment, according to a new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio.

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As the Republican National Convention (RNC) is set to begin next week, officials in Milwaukee remain at odds with groups hoping to hold a protest within sight and sound of the convention. Talks between the Coalition to March on the RNC, an umbrella group that includes dozens of organizations, and the city never resulted in the approval of a permit.

When wildfires rage, the immediate threat is obvious – but smoke from the fires actually kills far more people than the flames.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough is getting yelled at on the streets by angry Democrats furious about his questioning Joe Biden’s future as the Democratic Party’s presidential election.