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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Los Angeles Times (@latimes) Embed from Getty Images On Oct. 28 (UPI) — Her office sent a statement on Friday saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, had been attacked by a home invader. At a press conference held by the San Francisco Police… Read more: Nancy Pelosi’s husband ‘violently attacked’ by assailant hunting for her.

If she loses to Democrat Katie Hobbs in Arizona on November 8, Republican gubernatorial contender Kari Lake has declined to declare if she will accept defeat. Lake refused to accept the election results many times when asked by CNN’s “State of the Union” moderator Dana Bash on Sunday. Lake insisted that she was going to… Read more: Kari Lake Won’t Say If She’ll Accept Arizona Election Results If She Loses

Embed from Getty Images Former Independent Counsel Ken Starr, who was instrumental in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, has passed away. Starr passed away on Tuesday at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas… owing to postoperative problems… that’s what his relatives say. Starr led the massive Whitewater investigation of the Clintons… Read more: PROSECUTOR KEN STARR OF WHITEWATER<br> DEAD AT 76

Embed from Getty Images D.C. — The Obamas’ return to the White House on Wednesday for the release of their official portraits revived a bipartisan tradition that had languished during the Trump administration. President Joe Biden greeted former first couple Barack Obama and Michelle Obama with “Barack and Michelle, welcome home” in the East Room.… Read more: The Obamas return to the White House to unveil their portraits

THE NATIONAL CAPITOL (Associated Press) — WASHINGTON On Thursday, a former NYPD cop was sentenced to a record 10 years in jail for invading the U.S. Capitol and hitting one of the police officers trying to fend off a mob of Donald Trumpanzees with a metal flagpole. Among the roughly 250 people who have been… Read more: Ex-NYPD officer sentenced to record 10 years for assaulting police during the Capitol attack on Jan. 6

  On Friday, the Justice Department issued a partially redacted search warrant affidavit detailing the reasons FBI investigators visited the Florida property of former President Donald Trump this month. As part of an ongoing criminal investigation into whether or not Trump illegally removed White House records before he left office in 2021, a search was… Read more: Affidavit: Trump residence search triggered by classified records, obstruction

Officials in Washington — On Wednesday, Vice President Biden announced that the federal government will forgive up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt for millions of Americans, plus an additional $10,000 for low-income borrowers, and extend a pause on monthly payments, providing much-needed relief just weeks before the midterm elections. Borrowers who make less… Read more: Biden eliminates up to $20,000 in student loans, extends payment freeze

On Thursday, a Florida judge ruled against a measure supported by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that would have limited racial discussion and analysis in the workplace and classroom. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker of Tallahassee ruled in a 44-page opinion that the “Stop WOKE” act is unconstitutionally vague and a violation of the First Amendment.… Read more: Judge blocks Gov. DeSantis’ ‘Stop WOKE Act’

Embed from Getty Images CHERYENNE, Wyoming.  Following a crushing defeat in the Wyoming Republican primary to an opponent sponsored by former President Donald Trump, Representative Liz Cheney became increasingly outspoken on Wednesday about considering a 2024 presidential candidacy. The three-term congressman stated on NBC that Trump poses ““a very grave threat and risk to our… Read more: After losing, Cheney mulls 2024 run

Embed from Getty Images August 15-  On Monday, former president Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani revealed that he is a target in a criminal investigation in Georgia looking into attempts by Trump and his allies to change the election results in 2020. A judge has ordered Giuliani to appear before a special grand jury… Read more: Giuliani a target of Georgia’s 2020 election probe …another Trump supporter? NO!

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Embed from Getty Images On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland said he personally approved the search warrant that was used to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Garland also disclosed that the Department of Justice has submitted a motion to unseal an FBI property receipt and a search warrant. “Federal law, long-standing department rules, and our ethical… Read more: Merrick Garland reveals he authorized the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search.

A Trump supporter left a hateful, racist, homophobic, and threatening voicemail for Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell, in which the caller called for Swalwell, his wife, and their children to be beheaded. The message is representative of the extreme right-wing extremism that has been expressed in the wake of this week’s raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago… Read more: Rep. Eric Swalwell shares racist, homophobic voicemail death threats

An important Trump ally claims federal officials took his phone the day after they executed a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Pennsylvania Republican Representative Scott Perry said that “while traveling with my family, 3 FBI officers visited me and grabbed my cell phone” on Tuesday morning. Fox News was the first to report on… Read more:  FBI seized Trump associate Scott Perry’s phone.

On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that the House of Representatives had the constitutional right to request the IRS release former president Donald Trump’s taxes. To better oversee the IRS’ policy of auditing sitting presidents, lawmakers on the influential House Ways and Means Committee… Read more: Federal Appeals court rules Congress can obtain Trump’s tax returns

Embed from Getty Images On Wednesday, the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the death of Republican Indiana Representative Jackie Walorski in an automobile accident. Walorski, 58, was killed after his SUV was hit head-on by another vehicle around 12:30 p.m., according to Sheriff Jeff Siegel. Walorski, her district director Zachery Potts, 27, and communications director… Read more: Sheriff: GOP Rep. Jackie Walorski killed in automobile crash

A huge setback for anti-abortion advocates in the post-Roe era, the voters of Kansas rejected an amendment that would have curtailed the right to abortion under the state Constitution. Voters in Kansas soundly defeated a proposition that would have prohibited both legal abortions and the use of public funds to pay for them. In Kansas,… Read more: Kansas rejects Amendment 2, which would have banned abortion.

U.S. counterterrorism operations killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri over the weekend, President Biden stated Monday night. In his brief remarks from the White House balcony, Vice President Biden said, “ Al-Zawahiri, according to the president, was assassinated in Kabul. “After relentlessly seeking Zawahiri for years under Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump, our intelligence community located… Read more: Per Joe Biden a drone attack killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

To help military veterans who were exposed to burn pits and other potentially deadly poisons while serving overseas, the US Senate voted 86-11 on Tuesday. There are an estimated 3.5 million ex-soldiers in the United States who served in Iraq or Afghanistan where sewage and medical waste were burned in open pits and people living… Read more: Senate passes PACT Act, providing billions in aid for US veterans after their PORK STALLING!

Embed from Getty Images Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, which has become a flashpoint in the escalating conflict between the United States and China on her Asian tour, began on Tuesday when she arrived in Taipei, the capital city. Pelosi and other members of Congress were greeted by Taiwanese officials on the tarmac when a U.S.… Read more: Pelosi lands in Taiwan amid China tension

Embed from Getty Images The Biden administration has proposed to exchange convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout for Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, according to persons briefed on the situation. These sources informed that President Joe Biden backed the deal to trade Bout for Whelan and Griner. Biden’s backing for the swap trumps the Justice Department’s… Read more: Biden administration offers convicted Russian arms dealer for Griner, Whelan

The Biden administration said on Tuesday that it is releasing additional oil from its reserves in an effort to lower gasoline costs. For the past few months, the federal government has been releasing barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in an effort to bring down the price of oil at the… Read more: Did Biden use Trump’s vaccination strategy to lower gas prices?

Embed from Getty Images Steve Bannon was found guilty Friday of criminal contempt in connection with his defiance of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, by a jury. Despite nearly three hours of deliberation, a DC jury found in favor of the Justice Department in a case coming from a… Read more: Steve Bannon guilty of contempt for ignoring House Jan. 6 committee

Since his doctor expects him to recover quickly from his mild symptoms due to his recent vaccination and coronavirus booster injections, President Biden has been quarantined at the White House since his positive COVID-19 test came back on Thursday. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the president’s diagnosis by saying that he has begun… Read more: Biden tests positive for COVID-19, “very mild symptoms,” White House says

At least sixteen legislators were detained on Tuesday during an abortion rights rally outside the Supreme Court, according to the United States Capitol Police. At least sixteen members of Congress were among the 34 people arrested by U.S. Capitol Police for various forms of crowding, obstruction, and inconveniencing. First Street NE was blocked by demonstrators… Read more: Capitol police report that 16 members of Congress were detained during a demonstration against the Supreme Court.

It was reported on Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) had handed out “target” letters to prominent Republican figures, warning them that they could be charged in connection with a conspiracy to nominate an alternative slate of pro-Donald Trump electors in Georgia. State Senator Burt Jones (R), who was Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R)… Read more: Fulton County DA ‘targets’ prominent Georgia Republicans in Trump probe.  

Kellyanne Conway has stated that her marriage to George Conway, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, has caused her “a lot of hurt.” Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s senior counselor, said on Saturday on CNN, “I think George became an expert on many things people wanted him to be, and all I really wanted was… Read more: Kellyanne Conway says “No Alternative Facts Here” …her Trump-critic husband’s vows were broken. ‘Much pain’

Through June, hiring in the United States slowed slightly from its pre-pandemic levels. According to data released by the BLS on Friday, the economy added 372,000 nonfarm payroll positions in February. A consensus of Bloomberg economists predicted a gain of 268,000 jobs in June. Since May’s growth was revised downward, from 390,000 to 384,000, the… Read more: The US economy added 372,000 jobs in June, exceeding projections 

Embed from Getty Images On Thursday in Washington, Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, after being sworn in as an associate justice. Chief Justice John Roberts began the ceremony by saying, “We’re here today to administer the oaths of office to Judge Ketanji… Read more: After Centuries of PORK Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes first Black Supreme Court justice.

Vice President Joe Biden finally came out in favor of ending the Senate filibuster to legalize abortion on Thursday. For this reason, we should require an exception to the filibuster, as Biden put it: “If the filibuster gets in the way, it’s like voting rights.” The comments were delivered by Biden at a news conference held… Read more: Biden supports a filibuster exception for abortion rights and warns of ‘privacy’ dangers.

Embed from Getty Images DC (June 23) – On the fifth day of congressional hearings on the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s followers on January 6, 2021, it was revealed that the former president had pressed the Justice Department to help him cling to power after losing the 2020 election. Three former… Read more: Jan Committee Day 5, The Pork Continues …

Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images At a hearing on Tuesday, members of the House select committee looking into the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 revealed the threats made to state legislators and election officials and workers in Arizona and Georgia by supporters of President Donald Trump. On Tuesday,… Read more: Jan Committee Day 4 …The Search For More PORK, PORK, PORK!…

Embed from Getty Images Rioters chant “HANG MIKE PENCE!” It was a dramatic climax. In the United States Capitol, rioters had overwhelmed the police. The Secret Service was only 40 feet away from the vice president and his staff as they hurried to get them into a car and out of there before the rioters… Read more: Jan Committee Day 3 …The Search For Spock? …nah, the search for “HANG MIKE PENCE!!!

Embed from Getty Images U.S. Capital — On Monday, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol released a map detailing how the Trump campaign and allies used false claims of election fraud to raise millions of dollars from the former president’s supporters, money that was then used to line… Read more: The January 6 committee day 2 report details how PORK election claims boosted Trump fundraising, totaling millions of scammed supporters.

Embed from Getty Images An evening hearing of the House Select Committee looking into last year’s attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 was held on Thursday evening, with members of the panel presenting their findings and showing new video evidence from closed-door depositions of members of President Donald Trump’s team. The panel’s… Read more: The January 6 committee hearings start…the search for SPOCK? …Nah, the search for PORK!!!

Embed from Getty Images Peter Navarro was indicted on contempt charges Friday after refusing a subpoena from a House subcommittee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The interview that may have got him in trouble is here; A later interview just yesterday June 2nd may have sealed his fate; Navarro is the second former Trump… Read more: Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro arrested and indicted for contempt of Congress.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden outlined specific actions he wants Congress to do regarding gun control legislation on Thursday, calling Republican congressional resistance “unconscionable.” In what the White House characterized as a momentous statement, Vice President Biden urged Congress to act once again. “I support the bipartisan efforts that include a small group of Democrats… Read more: Biden urges Congress to take action on gun reform, claiming that “too many” schools have become “killing grounds.”

Donald Trump has mentioned John Durham’s name a few times over the past few months, hoping that the prosecutor would back up some of the former president’s conspiracy theories. Before leaving the White House, Trump even said that Durham’s investigation could be a way to get back at people he thinks are against him. But… Read more: In a significant loss for Durham, the jury acquits a former Clinton attorney.

Social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter had been accused by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of discriminating against conservative viewpoints because of a Florida law intended to punish them, but an appeals court ruled that the law violated the First Amendment and thus was unconstitutional. Judges on the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals in… Read more: A court of appeals says that Florida’s law on social media is against the Constitution.

Embed from Getty Images Congressional representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has warned her constituents that the federal government plans to monitor their eating habits and “zap” them until they eat “peach tree dish” phony meat. Extremism’s “gazpacho police” are now claiming that the feds are tracking bowel motions, too. The right-wing monitoring group Patriot Takes… Read more: With her most recent quarrel, Marjorie Taylor Greene goes completely and utterly off the rails.

Outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 21 people, including 19 children, last week in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade, a crowd booed Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday.  Embed from Getty Images “Shame on you, Abbott,” someone in the crowd yelled, Reuters reports, as the Republican… Read more: Outside the Uvalde High School where a gunman killed 21, Texas Governor Greg Abbott was booed. ‘Shame on You,’

In Washington, D.C.— McConnell said on Thursday that he wanted Republican senators to engage with Democratic counterparts on a legislative response to the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 children and two instructors dead. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and McConnell pushed him to connect with… Read more: McConnell indicates Republican willingness to negotiate ‘directly related’ to Uvalde gun control restrictions.

Embed from Getty Images After Georgia Republican state officials rejected Trump’s lies about fraud costing him the 2020 election there, the president spent more than a year vowing retribution and pledging to recruit and support primary challenges. He also promised to recruit and support primary challengers in other states. On Tuesday, those Republicans targeted by… Read more: The Republican Party in Georgia makes it clear it’s not interested in Trump’s attempts at revenge.

Only roughly 66,000 votes were cast in various states for Kanye West’s 2020 presidential candidacy. According to our sources, in a letter to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday (May 24), Kanye 2020 claimed that an anonymous individual had stolen $3,999 to pay off their own credit card debts. The information alleges, that a third… Read more: THE 2020 KANYE WEST PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN CLAIMS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WERE STOLEN IN FRAUD.

Embed from Getty Images Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted the January 6 Committee, calling it “illegal” and saying it has no power to issue subpoenas, despite being issued a subpoena by the panel in January. On Friday, Rudy Giuliani spent nine hours in a meeting with the House committee probing the rebellion… Read more: The January 6 committee grilled Rudy Giuliani for 9 hours:

Embed from Getty Images NAR secret papers carried to former President Donald Trump’s Florida property were subpoenaed by investigators, according to two people familiar with the incident. the first overt sign of an ongoing probe into the handling of secret White House documents taken to the former President’s Mar-Lago house after he left office. The subpoena… Read more: Investigators subpoena secret papers Trump took to Mar-a-Lago

View this post on Instagram A post shared by New York AG Letitia James (@newyorkstateag) A New York judge on Wednesday lifted former President Donald Trump’s civil contempt judgment if certain criteria are met and fined him $110,000. To avoid retroactive application of the contempt ruling, Judge Arthur Engoron imposed three requirements that must be… Read more: Trump’s civil contempt conviction is lifted and he is ordered to pay $110,000 in fines by a New York judge.