A federal judge pushed James Comey’s arraignment and trial into 2027 while his motions to throw out the case still await a ruling.U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan granted the delay in an order filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.The order moves th…
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The prospect of “nuclear genocide” hangs over Iran after President Donald Trump weighed at the United Nations whether to “annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly,” experts warned.National security analyst Joseph Cirincione made that case Friday in an essay for New Lines Magazine.”When he a…
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump has held his administration in contempt for deporting a 19-year-old asylum seeker to El Salvador a second time, in violation of three court orders, Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney reported Friday.In Friday’s order, U.S. District …
The 2026 election could become Republicans’ “worst midterm” of the century, with President Donald Trump polling worse on several measures than he did before the GOP’s massive losses in 2018, according to a new CNN analysis. CNN analyst Aaron Blake also compared this year’s bruising numbers for Repub…
Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton has yet to debate his Democratic opponent despite multiple invitations to do so, and on Friday, he was nudged again with a stinging voicemail left by Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico.“Hey Ken, it’s James. I’m calling to invite you to a debate on Fox New…
The University of Maine has contradicted a key claim Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ campaign made while defending her relationship with a defense contractor.ProPublica reporter William Turton revealed Friday that the university disputed Collins campaign manager Steve Abbott’s account of Navatek’s wo…
President Donald Trump keeps reaching for the same two words when his projects and decisions face legal scrutiny: national security.In a new analysis on Friday, The New Republic staff writer Matt Ford argued that the defense has spread from Trump’s White House ballroom to a proposed monument — and n…
As the Trump administration ramps up efforts to “dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC), it also risks letting loose a number of the world’s most notorious alleged mass killers, legal scholar Ryan Goodman argued in a report published Friday.The United States has long been opposed to the I…
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to use an expanded citizenship database to check voter rolls, lifting a lower court order while a legal challenge continues.The justices split 6-3. The administration added Social Security data to the SAVE system, allowing officials to sea…
Wealthy tech leaders have poured tens of millions of dollars into entities and causes supporting President Donald Trump, and a new “blockbuster story” from The Lever tied those contributions to the “killing” of a major regulatory safeguard.Describing the findings as “money in, regulations out,” The …