Senate rejects border security deal for a second time
The Senate voted down a bipartisan border security deal on Thursday for the second time as Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) attempted to put the GOP on the…
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Trump keeps talking about reproductive rights. And it keeps tripping him up.
When former president Donald Trump released a video saying states should decide abortion rights, it was meant to tamp down discontent from antiabortion groups who had been pushing him to…
James Comer risks an irony overdose
Earlier this month, Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent letters to the heads of various oil companies seeking information about an alleged effort…
In the GOP House, details of Trump’s trials are an unfair personal attack
A candidate for president of the United States is on trial for allegedly helping facilitate a hush money payment to a porn star to avoid a sex scandal during his…
Nikki Haley says she will vote for Trump in 2024 election
Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, who suspended her run for the Republican nomination for president in early March, announced she will vote for Donald Trump but reiterated that he should…
Biden has appointed 201 judges, boosting diversity of federal courts
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed two women of color as President Biden’s 200th and 201st judicial nominees, a significant milestone for Democratic and White House efforts to diversify and remake…
Did Trump’s lawyers do enough to damage Michael Cohen’s testimony?
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen arrived for his cross-examination by Donald Trump’s defense lawyers known as someone convicted of lying to Congress and cheating on his taxes. The former Trump…
A Democrat listed Trump’s trials on the House floor. His words were struck from the record.
The House was brought to a halt for over an hour on Wednesday after Republicans demanded that the words of Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) be “taken down” from the congressional…
For Trump, two days filled with backpedaling and baseless attacks
NEW YORK — In under 48 hours this week, Donald Trump’s social media account promoted a video featuring a term frequently associated with Nazi Germany and later removed it. He…
On her clemency quest, some say Marilyn Mosby is leaving out key facts
In Marilyn Mosby’s first stop on her public campaign for a presidential pardon, Baltimore’s former progressive prosecutor sat at a table with MSNBC’s Joy Reid and laid out her situation…