Supreme Court declines to intervene in Texas emergency abortion case
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to require doctors in Texas to perform certain emergency abortions when the procedure would conflict with the state’s strict abortion ban. The justices left in place a
Local Republicans decry hurricane falsehoods — as Trump spreads them
The Republican Party in the Trump era has overwhelmingly embraced an all’s-fair-in-love-and-war approach to politics. That’s evidenced by the fire hose of misinformation flowing from Donald Trump and his allies late in
Trump tells GOP to ‘pass the SAVE Act’ or ‘go home and cry yourself to sleep’
Former President Donald Trump published a screed on Tuesday warning Republican lawmakers that they have no choice but to pass the SAVE Act, warning "our whole voting system is under siege." The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would amend the
Top House lawmakers demand federal probe into US nonprofit linked to Hamas operative
FIRST ON FOX: A pro-Palestinian news outlet linked to Hamas is facing scrutiny from three separate House committees in a joint memo urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate.Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., Oversight Committee Chairman
Why asking about the 2020 election isn’t a ‘gotcha’ question
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is not interested in talking about the 2020 election. “See, this is the game that is always played by mainstream media with leading Republicans. It’s a gotcha game,”
Saying immigrants bring ‘bad genes’ echoes Trump’s history — and the world’s
Former president Donald Trump has long espoused a worldview in which genes are the determinative factor in someone’s life. In 1988, for example, he told Oprah Winfrey that success requires luck —
Trump suggests ‘bad genes’ to blame for undocumented immigrants who commit crimes
Donald Trump suggested Monday that people in the country illegally who have committed crimes have “bad genes,” the latest example of rhetoric by the former president that dehumanizes immigrants and disparages them
Democrats in Congress mostly resist calling for Biden to drop out despite private concerns: reports
Democrats in Congress mostly resisted calling for President Biden to drop out of the race despite raising private concerns during an all-caucus, closed-door meeting Tuesday, according to reports. Lawmakers returned to Washington, D.C., this week after the Fourth of July recess,
Who is White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor and what are his close ties to the Biden family?
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, President Biden’s physician, has been mostly out of the public’s view despite first overseeing Biden's health care in 2009 and building what has been described as a cozy relationship with the Biden family over the last 15
The elusive ‘policy-driven’ undecided voter
There is a canonical presentation of voters in a democracy. Attuned to the central issues of the election — be they national, state or local — these voters carefully consider the positions