As the scandal over Susan Collins’ relationship with Hawaii defense contractor Navatek became the central issue in her hotly contested senate campaign, she and her top aides mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.On Tuesday, ProPublica published an investigation into the…
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Ohio Republicans can’t pass GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s gas tax suspension plan on their own, and now find themselves needing Democratic votes to push it through before the election, an unusual bit of leverage for the minority party.According to News 5 Cleveland, Ramaswamy is worki…
A CNN analysis keyed in on the latest bombshell revelation about a White House leaker to tear into President Donald Trump’s media ban.On Wednesday, former federal prosecutor and columnist Jeffrey Toobin spoke with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper about the hearing regarding Trump’s media ban. U.S. Distric…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Chicago area roughed up a U.S. citizen they mistakenly wanted to arrest — then left him injured on the ground. It’s the latest incident in an area where ICE has been sporadically terrorizing communities ever since President Donald Trump took office.The inci…
New reporting that Vice President JD Vance was behind one of the stories that the White House used to ban Politico is sparking ridicule.On Wednesday, Status reported that Vance was the “senior administration official” cited in a Politico article about an Iran peace deal. In a letter to Politico, the…
Secretive Wyoming billionaire Timothy Mellon, one of the Republican Party’s most prolific financial backers, has all but cut off Senate Republicans this election cycle, furious that GOP leadership couldn’t muscle through President Trump’s sweeping voting restrictions bill.Mellon, grandson of Gilded …
An energy adviser for President Donald Trump slammed a White House plan to halt diesel exports for 90 days as midterm pressure mounts.According to a Wednesday article by Politico, the Trump administration is moving toward a temporary ban despite divisions within its own ranks and opposition from fue…
Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang tore into President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration a day before her Senate confirmation hearing.Speaking on her “Katie Phang News” YouTube channel on Wednesday, Phang warned viewers about Dr. Heidi Overton, whose confirmation hearing is…
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department filed court papers contradicting his warning that the Kennedy Center could be demolished without his name on it.The status report by the Department of Justice, filed in federal court on Wednesday, attributed the shuttered venue’s closure to a series of saf…
Andrew Weissmann broke his silence after a judge tossed a former Trump lawyer’s defamation suit against him over a tweet about a January 6 witness.Weissmann, a former Mueller prosecutor, spoke Wednesday on The Bulwark’s “The Illegal News” podcast, telling host Sarah Longwell the dismissal was “a ver…