Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation Friday that would set aside the state's May 19 congressional primary results and trigger new elections, if federal courts allow Republicans to swap in a different set of House district lines. The move positions Alabama as one of several…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing pointed accusations of cronyism after steering roughly $20 million in taxpayer funds to a nonprofit whose leadership overlaps with his wife's own organization, all in the name of giving free diapers to newborns. The program, branded "Golden State Start,"…
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman stood before roughly 150 people in a Queens park on Sunday morning and delivered a blunt indictment of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling him "un-American," "antisemetic," and a leader who divides the city he governs. The Republican gubernatorial candidate headlined the…
Immigration judges issued more than 80,000 voluntary departure orders between January 2025 and March of this year, a pace roughly seven times higher than anything seen under the Biden administration, as the Trump White House's crackdown on illegal immigration pushes detained migrants to leave the…
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged prominent Democratic donor Fay Beydoun with 16 felony counts tied to a $20 million state grant that prosecutors say was funneled into personal expenses, forged invoices, and false reports, all under a system Nessel herself described as "political cronyism…
The Southern Poverty Law Center pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges that it defrauded donors by secretly funneling millions of dollars to individuals tied to the very extremist groups it claimed to fight, a case that has split Washington and drawn fierce reactions from…
A Moroccan military search team pulled the remains of 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr. from the Atlantic surf on May 9, one week after the 27-year-old Army officer and a fellow soldier plummeted off a cliff during an off-duty hike near Morocco's Cap Draa…
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has spent 2025 staking out lonely ground on the Supreme Court, and drawing unusually pointed fire from justices on both the right and the left. In case after case touching President Trump's executive authority, the bench's most junior member has filed…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that he supports the Major Richard Star Act, a bipartisan bill to restore benefits for roughly 54,000 combat-injured veterans that key Republican senators have twice blocked over its price tag. The declaration puts…
Vice President JD Vance is set to publish a second memoir next month, and the first excerpts paint a portrait of a young man from Middletown, Ohio, who walked into Yale Law School carrying a lifetime of instability and walked out with a marriage that…
Hakeem Jeffries spent Saturday afternoon on a private call with House Democrats, talking about how to remove the entire Virginia Supreme Court. The plan: lower the state's mandatory judicial retirement age to 54, the age of the youngest sitting justice, and force every member off…
Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen stepped down Friday with immediate effect, ending her tenure on the state's highest court as Republican leaders pressed forward with an independent investigation into allegations she carried on an improper relationship with an attorney who argued a landmark redistricting…
Tennessee's Republican-controlled state House passed a new congressional map Thursday that splits Memphis across three districts and eliminates the only seat Democrats held in the state's nine-member delegation. Gov. Bill Lee signed the map into law the same day, capping a rapid legislative push that…
U.S. forces struck and disabled two Iranian-flagged oil tankers on Friday as they tried to reach an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman, U.S. Central Command announced. The tankers M/T Sea Star III and M/T Sevda were hit by an F/A-18 Super Hornet launched…
