Author E. Jean Carroll can amend her original defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to include comments he made at a CNN town hall event last month, a federal judge said Tuesday. Carroll is seeking at least $10 million in new damages after he repeated statements that, according to …
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Ukraine was a major focus of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak‘s White House visit with President Joe Biden on Thursday. The two met in the Oval Office before holding a press conference. In the Oval Office, the leaders discussed what Mr. Biden called their “unwavering” support for the people of Ukraine, as …
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Des Moines, Iowa – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday capped off his first week on the presidential campaign trail as the final speaker at Sen. Joni Ernst’s “Roast & Ride” event, which also hosted several other Republican presidential hopefuls. There, he condensed his usual 45-minute stump speech into just …
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Austin, Texas — The GOP-led Texas House of Representatives on Saturday voted decisively to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, who had 20 articles of impeachment brought up against him earlier this week. The final vote was 121 voting to impeach, with 23 voting against impeachment and two voting present. Paxton …
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed several anti-transgender bills Wednesday which ban gender-affirming care for minors, ban children from attending drag shows, and target how students learn about and engage with the LGBTQ+ community. Senate Bill 254 outlaws gender transition surgeries and medication, such as puberty blockers, for minors. It also …
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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is asking for a sentence of time served, after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors argued was a violent plan to ensure former President Donald Trump remained in the White House, though he had lost the 2020 presidential election. The Justice Department is seeking …
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Washington — A bipartisan group of House lawmakers have unveiled a bill that would prohibit members of Congress from owning and trading individual stocks, a proposal aimed at restoring public trust by preventing lawmakers from profiting off insider information. In a sign that the measure enjoys support across the ideological …
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County officials in Memphis voted unanimously on Wednesday to reappoint Justin Pearson to the Tennessee House of Representatives, less than a week after the legislature voted to expel him and another Black Democratic lawmaker for participating in a protest against gun violence. The Shelby County Board of Commissioners, which was …
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The parents of Philip Todd, the Senate staffer who was stabbed in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, issued a statement on Wednesday saying he was in stable condition and is expected to make a full recovery. Todd was “randomly and brutally attacked by a person armed with a knife, who, …
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Washington — The White House on Monday called on former Vice President Mike Pence to apologize for what it called a “homophobic” joke he made over the weekend about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s decision to take paternity leave when his twins were born. In a speech at the annual Gridiron …
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