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Alon Skuy/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Bob Good is learning that lack of complete loyalty has consequences in Donald Trump’s political world. The former president on Tuesday endorsed the Virginia Republican’s primary challenger, state legislator [Read More…]

Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Biden campaign on Tuesday dispatched actor Robert De Niro and two former police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 — Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone [Read More…]

Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Libertarian Party National Convention at the Washington Hilton on May 25, 2024 in Washington, DC. Trump addressed the convention one day after Robert F. [Read More…]

Supporters of former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cheer as he addresses the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, DC, May 25, 2024. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Former [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has returned home following his “non-surgical medical procedure” on Friday, and his since resumed his duties, said Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s top spokesman. Austin [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday took the extraordinary step of seeking an order from the federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case to bar Trump from [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Kenyan President William Ruto is the first African leader to make an official state visit to the United States in over 15 years. On Thursday, the White House held [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will undergo what the Pentagon is describing as “a scheduled, elective and minimally invasive follow-up non-surgical procedure related to his previously reported bladder issue” on Friday [Read More…]

James Devaney/GC Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump ratcheted up his anti-immigrant rhetoric at a rally in the South Bronx, where he claimed, without evidence, that migrants coming to the U.S. are forming [Read More…]

ilbusca/Getty Images (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.) — The GOP civil war has reached a new beachhead: blood-red Missouri. The state’s Republican attorney general primary is pitting incumbent Andrew Bailey against Will Scharf, a lawyer for Donald [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s supporters are still split after she said she will be voting for former President Donald Trump, some seeing it as a “greenlight” for them [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A split-screen showdown between the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will occur this weekend at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has previously ruled out joining the Libertarian Party — but as he prepares to speak at the party’s national convention on Friday, there’s [Read More…]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Following former President Donald Trump’s announcement in April that he would leave the issue of abortion to the states, effectively saying that he would not sign a national abortion [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump pledged to turn New York red during a campaign rally in deep-blue South Bronx, New York, on Thursday evening as he worked to court the [Read More…]

Former President Donald Trump arrives at a rally in the historical Democratic district of the South Bronx on May 23, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Former President [Read More…]

John Nacion/WireImage (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump opened the door to restricting access to contraceptives earlier this week, less than a week after Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two bills that would have [Read More…]

Grace Cary/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congressional Democrats on Thursday accused oil companies of inflating the cost of gasoline and vowed to investigate them, pushing back on who’s to blame for rising prices hurting President Joe [Read More…]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Republican-drawn South Carolina congressional district, reversing lower court rulings that had struck it down as a product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering that [Read More…]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The GOP-led House Education Committee on Thursday called on more university leaders to defend their handling of pro-Palestinian protests and respond to allegations of antisemitism on campus. Leaders from Northwestern, [Read More…]