President Donald Trump declared a national emergency Wednesday over foreign-made equipment that the White House warned could leave the nation’s power system vulnerable to sabotage and catastrophic disruption. Trump signed an executive order aimed at protecting “the security, integrity, and reliabili…
Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) is facing outrage after he used a family’s tragedy to try to score political points with an attack ad.According to reporting by The New York Times, Husted tried to attack his Democratic opponent, Sherrod Brown, with an ad that framed a fatal car crash, just outside Columbus, O…
Maine’s Republican nominee for governor was caught on audio revealing plans to ask for federal agents to be stationed at polling locations during the upcoming midterm elections – an idea critics quickly blasted as “deeply alarming” and “likely illegal.”Bobby Charles told supporters at an Aug. 20 Mai…
U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who has long defended killing a bill that could have acted on forced child marriage in Colorado City in 2013, let it slip to reporters this week that he knew what was going on all along.Biggs, the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, faced the questions Tuesday at th…
President Donald Trump is hammering his own voters with what one analyst described as a “triple whammy” resulting from his renewed trade war with Canada. Trump renewed his passion for trade wars this week when he announced new tariffs on Canadian goods and relaxed rules to allow more than 300,000 me…
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President Trump’s escalating trade fight with Canada is about to make one of the most basic household necessities more expensive, as Canada prepares retaliatory tariffs on toilet paper and hundreds of other American goods.The news was reported by The Daily Beast on Wednesday.Canadian Prime Minister …
A Tampa event featuring Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended abruptly on Wednesday as he was pressed on a $1 million donation from a kratom company that federal prosecutors had stopped pursuing.Kennedy was pressed by a reporter about ties to the company selling the potentially addictive subs…
A wily federal judge in Boston this week quietly cleared a path toward having the question of whether the president can wrest control of mail-in voting away from states answered, which the Trump administration has insisted is too soon to decide.U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee,…
The Trump administration is facing a fresh legal challenge from Democratic attorneys general in 23 states over the president’s plan to give the U.S. Postal Service unprecedented control over mail-in voting.The states are seeking an emergency order blocking a Postal Service rule issued Friday that wo…