Politics
Alabama’s redrawn congressional map is setting up the first member-on-member US House primary of 2024, with GOP Rep. Barry Moore set to challenge fellow Republican Rep. Jerry Carl in the new 1st District. Under a new map approved by a federal court earlier this month, Moore’s current 2nd District was…
History is flashing warnings to the world. Outbursts of antisemitism have often been harbingers of societies in deep trouble and omens that extremism and violence are imminent. So the wave of global hatred directed against Jews – intensified by Israel’s indiscriminate response in Gaza to horrific Hamas terrorist murders of Israeli…
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday that they planned to schedule a vote to authorize a round of subpoenas related to their investigation into ethics reform at the Supreme Court after an array of stories over the last several months have suggested that some of the justices, Clarence…
An Alabama man has been charged with making threatening voicemails to Fulton County officials in Georgia because of their connections to the case against former President Donald Trump. Arthur Ray Hanson II, 59, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta last week on felony charges of transmitting interstate…
The Department of Education is penalizing one of its student loan servicing contractors for failing to send billing statements on time to 2.5 million borrowers earlier this month when payments resumed after a more than three-year pause. More than 800,000 federal student loan borrowers were late making their payment as…
A federal judge on Monday granted Texas’ motion to temporarily stop the Biden administration from removing the razor wire at the US-Mexico border, pending a preliminary injunction hearing. The temporary win for Texas, which states the federal government shall not remove, disassemble, degrade or tamper with the concertina wire, comes…
President Joe Biden on Sunday pressed his Israeli counterpart to “immediately” scale up the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, and a top Israeli official told CNN as many as 100 trucks a day could soon be moving into the enclave. The increased flow comes as a dire humanitarian crisis…
The Biden administration is announcing new actions Monday aimed at combating a dangerous scourge of antisemitic incidents on college campuses across the country in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel. The White House highlighted a series of steps taken by the Department of Homeland Security, the Department…
Judge reinstates gag order on Trump in election subversion case; Trump campaigns in Iowa A federal judge has reinstated a gag order on former U.S. President Donald Trump in his election subversion case. Meanwhile, Trump ridiculed his GOP opponents in Iowa. CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reports, and Nick Watt speaks with…
The new House speaker, Mike Johnson, is in for on-the-job training as he emerges from relative national obscurity to the top elected Republican in the United States. In a sort of coming out interview, a chummy talk with Sean Hannity on Fox News Thursday, Johnson laid out his world view,…