The House overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to censure Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) after an ethics investigation found that he engaged in “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers,” according to an NBC News report. The resolution passed 413-2, with Edwards and R…
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President Donald Trump’s aides are quietly preparing untested legal tactics to blunt a wave of Democratic investigations they expect after the midterms.According to an article by Politico, new preparations have started since Will Scharf took over as the White House counsel on Tuesday. An August 10 J…
GOP candidates in competitive House races told a columnist they don’t know whether they’ll appear at President Donald Trump’s midterm convention because of scheduling conflicts.In a Tuesday column, political commentator Joe Perticone noted a “conveniently timed epidemic of GOP scheduling conflicts” …
Two judges appointed by President Donald Trump have overturned a fellow Trump appointee and revived a whistleblower’s Medicare fraud lawsuit.On Tuesday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated a 2024 decision by U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida. A…
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin handed opponents of President Donald Trump a document that threatens to undermine his entire scheme to seize control of the midterm elections. A complaint filed this week in federal court hinges on an internal memorandum dated June 8 that Mullin signed to…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) lashed out at CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju on Tuesday after the reporter confronted him over his past predictions that the war in Iran would end quickly and cause only a temporary rise in gas prices.“You said repeatedly that this war was going to be ove…
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed Tuesday that immigration agents could deploy to polling locations during November’s midterms under certain circumstances, offering the administration’s most specific comments yet on a scenario Democrats have warned could intimidate voters.Speaki…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced Tuesday that Republicans will bring a vote to the House floor aimed at permanently limiting the U.S. Supreme Court to nine justices.“We will keep the nine,” Johnson told reporters just after the House cleared a short-term funding bill to avert a government…
President Donald Trump’s escalating threats to effectively destroy Iran set off alarm Tuesday, with one foreign-policy analyst warning that the president appeared to be signaling that nuclear weapons were “on the table now.”Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States was striking Iranian …
Ohio Democratic congressional candidate Brian Poindexter’s past arrests were revealed by a new report by a conservative outlet.Poindexter, a Cleveland city councilman and former union organizer, was arrested in 1998 on suspicion of swallowing a rock of crack cocaine during a traffic stop and in 2013…