Utah's governor and top Republican lawmakers have launched an independent investigation into state Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen over allegations she exchanged "inappropriate" text messages with the attorney who argued a landmark redistricting case before her court, a case she helped decide unanimously in July…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the FDA to expedite its review of psychedelic-based treatments for severe mental health conditions, with a sharp focus on veterans suffering from PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, and depression. The move pairs new federal research dollars with a…
President Trump on Thursday nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz, a Brown University, trained physician, military veteran, and former deputy surgeon general, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, installing a credentialed public health official at the helm of an agency that has endured mass…
Former Congressman David McKinley, a seventh-generation West Virginian who spent more than a decade fighting for coal miners and Mountain State workers on Capitol Hill, died peacefully at his home in Wheeling. He was 79. Tributes from across West Virginia's political leadership poured in Friday,…
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says she has forwarded information about Sen. Ruben Gallego to Senate ethics officials and that Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office confirmed it was under review, claims the Arizona Democrat's office dismissed as "right-wing conspiracy theories." Luna, a Florida Republican, told…
The Supreme Court handed oil and gas companies a unanimous procedural win Friday, ruling that a major Louisiana coastal-damage case against Chevron belongs in federal court, not the state court system where a jury had already ordered the company to pay more than $740 million…
Virginia voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide a redistricting referendum that could hand Democrats a commanding 10-1 advantage in the state's congressional delegation, but a pending Virginia Supreme Court challenge may ultimately void the entire effort over allegations that lawmakers broke state law…
Former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki broke with more than 50 Democratic lawmakers this week, flatly declaring that efforts to invoke the 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump are "not going to happen" and questioning why her own side keeps spending energy on…
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons submitted his resignation letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Thursday, ending a 20-year federal career that included overseeing roughly 584,000 deportations since President Trump's second inauguration. Lyons plans to stay on through May 31 to help with the…
Megyn Kelly took aim at Jimmy Kimmel this week after the late-night host sat down with Michelle Obama on her podcast and declared that ignoring politics on his ABC show would be "embarrassing" and "shameful." Kelly fired back on The Megyn Kelly Show, calling the…
The Federal Aviation Administration will slash more than 300 flights from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport this summer, capping daily operations at 2,708 in a bid to tame a delay problem that made O'Hare one of the worst-performing airports in the country last year. The limits…
A New York appeals court granted former NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran $300,000 bail on Friday, clearing the 38-year-old married father of three to leave prison while he challenges his manslaughter conviction, a case that has divided law enforcement advocates and the Bronx legal establishment since…
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun agreed to a ten-day ceasefire, set to take effect at 5 p.m., after Secretary of State Marco Rubio mediated the first direct talks between the two nations in more…
Darin Hoover lost his son at Abbey Gate. For three and a half years, he says, the government gave his family almost nothing, no real answers, no accountability, and no indication anyone in charge cared to look back at what went wrong. Now a new…
