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Scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos (R-NY) got slapped with 13 different criminal charges on Wednesday, including multiple counts of wire fraud and money laundering.Despite this, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is still resisting calls for the embattled New York congressman to resign. 
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Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) ridiculed Republican objections to block a leading investment firm from imposing its own standards on utility companies to cut emissions linked to climate change. A group of Republican attorneys general filed a motion this week to block BlackRock...
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'A test of decency': Conservative says GOP has moral duty to not nominate Trump again - RawStory.com
Now that a jury has found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll, conservative New York Times columnist David French argues that the Republican Party has an ethical duty to not nominate him for president yet again.
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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is facing charges of employment benefits fraud even though he is sponsoring a bill to prevent the crime. The fraud charges came as part of a 13-count indictment that was unsealed on Wednesday after Santos was arrested.
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A House Republican investigation led by Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) has been trying to link President Joe Biden and his family to accusations of essentially accepting bribes from foreign countries.
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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has been in Congress for less than six months, but he's already been charged in a criminal investigation. The New York Republican has been caught lying about basic details in his biography and faced questions about his finances since entering office earlier this year...
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Legal experts are weighing in on New York State Supreme Court acting Justice Juan Merchan's protective order barring Donald Trump from posting any "evidence" in District Attorney Alvin Bragg's 34-felony count indictment of the ex-president for allegedly falsifying business records...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a problem with his 2024 presidential run, which he is widely expected to soon announce: state law appeared to require him to resign from office in order to launch that campaign.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's campaign credit card is being linked to a strange transaction between far-right extremist – and former MTG intern – Milo Yiannopoulos and Kanye West. According to a report by the Daily Beast, last November Yiannopoulos used the credit card to buy an internet domain...
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There appears to be a lawsuit brewing between conservative host Tucker Carlson and his former employer, Fox News.After Fox News parted ways with Carlson and many of Carlson's texts and videos went public, Carlson announced that he would be starting a new show on Twitter.
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Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) compared President Joe Biden's family to The Sopranos, a television series about a fictional crime family.
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Former President Donald Trump was held liable for sexual assault and defamation in the civil case brought by author E. Jean Carroll this week — and he still faces a criminal trial in New York for his $130,000 alleged hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels...
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After firing its top-rated host Tucker Carlson — a decision that reportedly came from Rupert Murdoch himself — Fox News watched its ratings plummet in late April. Now, the right-wing cable news channel is receiving some more bad news: major quarterly losses by its parent company Fox Corporation...
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Republican lawmakers joined the call for Rep. George Santos (R-NY) to resign Wednesday after charges against him were unsealed.The embattled first-term congressman was taken into federal custody on 13 charges -- including seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats released a letter from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Wednesday saying a Republican's decision to hold military nominations harms national security, intensifying a dispute over the military's abortion policy.
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is sounding the alarm with a clear warning to Republicans still embracing former President Donald Trump. Following the unfavorable defamation lawsuit verdict Trump received in the E. Jean Carroll case, Romney weighed in with his take on the outcome.
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Rep. Dan Bishop is the latest congressperson in a string of dozens of lawmakers who’ve violated the law in recent years.
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Scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos (R-NY) on Wednesday got slapped with 13 different criminal charges including counts of wire fraud and money laundering. The New York Times reports that Santos surrendered himself to law enforcement officials on Wednesday morning...
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Right-wing groups lead new 'under the radar' effort to restrict voting access: report - RawStory.com
Right-wing groups are dialing up their efforts to enact tighter voting laws ahead of the 2024 elections without attracting much attention, The New York Times reports. The Times describes the latest efforts to restrict voting access in a “second wave” of legislation that follows...
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Fox News is making absolutely no apologies for knowingly promoting false claims about Dominion Voting Systems, even after it settled with the company for a massive $780 million last month. However, an analysis written by NPR's David Folkenflik notes that the company is still facing lawsuits...
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The shooting massacre in suburban Texas is yet another occasion to say that the country desperately needs more and better gun laws. (Eight people are dead, including the shooter, after he rampaged an outlet mall in Allen.) It’s an occasion to examine why our gun laws are so feeble and dangerous...
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Former President Donald Trump has an unprecedented number of detractors who served in his own administration, ranging from former Attorney General Bill Barr to former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham.
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NEW YORK — The Fox News Channel has no plans to change its “successful” approach to programming despite a record defamation settlement and the unceremonious departure of its most prominent star.
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Investigative outlet ProPublica is like a dog with a bone, revealing now that real estate baron Harlan Crow paid for years of pricey private school tuition for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ great-nephew Mark Martin, whom the jurist had taken legal custody of and had been raising as a son.
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Federal prosecutors filed unspecified criminal charges against George Santos, the Republican congressman from New York who faced national criticism when a pattern of false statements and allegations of misdeeds emerged after last year’s election, CNN reports.
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