Politics

Donald Trump just can’t quit trying to interfere in the 2020 election. As a criminal investigation moves forward in Georgia into his attempts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, the former president sent a letter Friday to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that calls the election “illegitimate” and asks …

The Biden administration filed suit against the state of Texas on Thursday to stop enforcement of the Texas Heartbeat Act, the law that effectively ended abortion care in the state when it went into effect earlier this month. Speaking from Austin, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland called the law “clearly …

Jake Tapper questioned Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the collapse of the Afghan government following the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the country, asking how the president—who insisted the government would not fall—could “get this so wrong.” Blinken responded that the U.S. has accomplished its goals in …

Officials in one Texas city are literally sounding the alarm over rising Covid-19 cases in the state, as the seven-day average number of confirmed cases has steadily risen since late July and surpassed 10,000 over the weekend, according to the Department of State Health Services. But Republican Governor Greg Abbott …

Republican elected officials in a Michigan county voted to allot themselves hefty payments in the form of “Covid hazard pay” from American Rescue Plan funds designated for essential workers, only returning the funds under public pressure and a lawsuit. The Shiawassee County commissioners awarded themselves as much as $25,000 each …

The heretics left the champagne and orange juice untouched, but the conversation flowed freely all the same. It was a cool May morning in Washington, D.C., and George Conway, Jennifer Horn, Mike Madrid, and Ron Steslow sat behind bulky microphones in a darkened studio lit like the Charlie Rose show. …

WASHINGTON —In the last week of May, Senate Democrats arrived at a cavernous room in the Hart office building and settled in for a presentation from Marc Elias, one of the leading election lawyers for the Democratic Party. Elias had spent the last year locked in legal combat with Donald …

The Biden administration announced Friday that it intends to “repeal or replace” a Trump-era rule change that gave permission to build roads, log and make other developments in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Under Trump, the U.S. saw the largest reduction of protected public lands in its history. The Tongass, which …

A new study finds that teens are at increasing risk for severe Covid cases, and that among those recently hospitalized for Covid, nearly a third entered intensive care and five percent were placed on a ventilator. “I am deeply concerned by the numbers of hospitalized adolescents and saddened to see …

House Democrats passed legislation that would make Washington, D.C., the 51st state on Thursday, but the measure will likely fail in the Senate. The bill passed along party lines with a vote of 216 to 208, with no Republicans voting in favor. D.C. has more than 700,000 residents — larger …