Politics

There is no solution to the gun problem, and little more to write, because Americans are addicted to firearms....

Walle, a Democrat and Latino, called out a Republican state lawmaker for successfully ending debate about a proposed law that would allow any police officer in Texas to deport someone who is in the United States illegally.

Get live updates from the trial of former President Trump in a $250 million fraud suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) won the floor vote for the House speaker gavel on Wednesday, ending the weeks of stalemate and failed nominations that followed the historic ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)

In Bush’s naïveté about the magic of elections, he ignored a crucial point about democracy.

Republicans have picked Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota as their nominee for House speaker as they try for a third time to fill the top leadership position and get Congress back to work.

Republicans voted behind closed doors to nominate Tom Emmer for speaker of the House three weeks after Kevin McCarthy was ousted. Emmer dropped out hours later.

Ellis flips....

The whole video is pretty good. But I found this part pretty interesting as I hadn't heard it before.

Sidney Powell has agreed to plea guilty for her efforts to overturn the 2020 election, but that doesn't mean she's going to flip on Trump.

Despite warnings from New York Judge Arthur Engoron to not attack court officials, Donald Trump went on an extended rant near midnight on Sunday, lashing out at the judge who has already fined him $5000, in addition to once again attacking New York Attorney General Letitia James.In a post that compl...

House Republicans will hear Monday from nine lawmakers vying to be the next speaker of the House, with a candidate forum that ushers in a grueling day of voting Tuesday.

Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor, leaked the tax returns of the rich to show the public how the uber-wealthy game our tax code. Now he’s facing potential prison time. They’ve nabbed the wrong criminal.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country’s core institutions....

Oct. 20 (UPI) -- A Manhattan Supreme Court judge on Friday fined former President Donald Trump $5,000 for violating a gag order placed on him during his civil fraud trial in New York....

Jim Jordan fails to win speakership on third ballot and loses ground as more Republicans oppose his nomination...

There have been several failed attempts to turn the site of the massacre into a space that honors the 49 people who were killed...

For once, the center actually held and Team Normal beat Team MAGA in the fight to find a new House Speaker.

The Federal Communications Commission today voted to move ahead with a plan that would restore net neutrality rules and common-carrier regulation of Internet service providers....

Former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case, one day before her trial was set to start....

U.S. prosecutors urged a federal judge Thursday to reject former president Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions he took in office, saying that he is “not above the law” and that his indictment for allegedly conspiring to block the results of the 2020 election should not be...

Onetime Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election interference case. Powell spread baseless claims of widespread election fraud after the 2020 contest Donald Trump lost.

A former lawyer for Donald Trump could soon be providing evidence against him — and not for the first time....

Jordan’s struggle had prompted increasing calls from both parties to expand the powers of the interim speaker to overcome the Republican’s intraparty morass.