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ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Republican accusations that the Justice Department has been politicized to target former President Donald Trump and others on the right are a “disservice” to the DOJ’s employees and add fuel to [Read More…]

2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden talks with fellow candidate Marianne Williamson (L) at the Wing Ding Dinner on August 9, 2019 in Clear Lake, Iowa. — Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images [Read More…]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court has denied special counsel Jack Smith’s request to immediately take up former President Donald Trump’s claims of immunity from prosecution in his federal election interference case. In [Read More…]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order allowing the U.S. to impose another level of sanction enforcement on Russia that will go after financial [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Republican presidential candidate and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie outlined his national drug crisis plan earlier this week — sharing his roadmap that focuses on ending the stigma [Read More…]

Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump gestures at the end of a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on December 19, 2023. CREDIT: KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Michigan newspaper is [Read More…]

President Joe Biden meets with staff in the Oval Office, Tuesday, September 27, 2022. — (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced Friday he was granting clemency to nearly [Read More…]

Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump gestures at the end of a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on December 19, 2023. CREDIT: KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A UPS delivery driver [Read More…]

Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, with his family by his side, speaks to guests during the Scott County Fireside Chat at the Tanglewood Hills Pavilion on December 18, 2023 in Bettendorf, Iowa. CREDIT: [Read More…]

RapidEye/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge on Wednesday granted former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss’ request to expedite their $148 million judgment against Rudy Giuliani, saying that the mother and [Read More…]

Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay out of the legal debate over presidential immunity regarding his actions attacking the 2020 election [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — ABC News on Wednesday announced how Republican presidential candidates will be able to qualify for the network’s upcoming New Hampshire primary debate in January. To earn a spot on stage, [Read More…]

Former U.S. President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on Dec. 19, 2023. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers fell in [Read More…]

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at an economic event at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden [Read More…]

U.S. Marshals Service via AP (NEW YORK) — Fugitive Leonard Glenn Francis, also known as “Fat Leonard,” the mastermind behind the worst corruption scheme in U.S. Navy history, was arrested and returned to the U.S. Wednesday [Read More…]

Marla Aufmuth/Getty Images for Massachusetts Conference For Women (BOSTON) — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu publicly apologized to two Black men who were wrongfully accused in the 1989 murder of a pregnant white woman. Willie Bennett and [Read More…]

Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images (HOUSTON) — The Justice Department on Wednesday announced its first-ever predatory mortgage lending lawsuit against a Houston-based developer they accuse of swindling tens of thousands of Hispanic borrowers into buying flood-prone [Read More…]

Gaby Oraa/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration completed a prisoner swap with Venezuela Wednesday, granting clemency to one of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s close allies in exchange for the freedom of 10 Americans who had [Read More…]

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump looks on during a campaign event on Dec. 19, 2023 in Waterloo, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday night at a [Read More…]

Republican presidential candidate businessman Vivek Ramaswamy speaks to guests during a campaign stop at the AmericInn on Dec. 19, 2023 in Webster City, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy pledged on [Read More…]