The Justice Department’s sudden loss of a pro-Trump loyalist prosecutor bodes ill for the president’s recently selected attorney general, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman wrote on Monday.Joseph diGenova has refused to explain the reasoning for his departure, but the mere fact that he chose to …
Month: September 2026
President Donald Trump has been telling Americans “economic fairy tales” about one of his signature campaign promises, according to a blistering new column.Trump repeatedly vowed to slash energy and electricity prices by 50% within 12 months of taking office. Instead, diesel recently surpassed $6 pe…
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) described a “long and often frustrating process” of recovery after returning to the Senate on Monday.It was the first time that the former Republican majority leader had been at the Capitol since a July 12 statement announced that he had been “briefly unconscious” at his …
A Brooklyn judge has thrown out an attempt by the borough’s Democratic Party chair to rewrite internal rules that critics say would have cemented her grip on power and tightened control over how future judges get picked.Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Jill Epstein invalidated the rule-change vote Mon…
President Donald Trump’s own inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security revealed damning new details this week about the tiny cages detainees at the Florida-based “Alligator Alcatraz” were subjected to — tiny, wire-framed enclosures detainees could be confined in for multiple hours, a…
A Trump-endorsed MAGA Republican facing domestic abuse allegations drew swift backlash after touting a recognition for his support of mothers and “the family unit as a whole.”Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) shared a post on social media showing a smiling image of himself with an “A” grade from Moms for Ameri…
Attorney General Todd Blanche has conceded that it was right to investigate President Donald Trump over the classified documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago, a national security journalist wrote Monday.Marcy Wheeler made the argument at emptywheel, pointing to a dispute within the department over where cl…
Vice President JD Vance was heckled at a Kansas campaign event for Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), then accused the protester of coming in to lie about the senator.The interruption came Monday afternoon at Webco Manufacturing in Olathe, during remarks carried live by LiveNOW from Fox to more than 93,000…
A federal judge has ruled that a senior aide to former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem deliberately destroyed messages in the middle of active litigation, marking the second time in months a top Noem official has been caught wiping communications tied to the disaster response agency.Accordin…
ODESSA — Texas Railroad Commissioner candidate Bo French stood by racist remarks he made Sunday on social media that included a photo of South Asian students celebrating a football game at the University of Texas at Austin, arguing the university promotes discriminatory enrollment practices that fav…