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United States Courts via The New York Times via Redux (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump now faces a third set of charges after a grand jury handed up another indictment against him on Tuesday in the special counsel’s 2020 election ongoing investigation. The indictment alleges that Trump undertook a “criminal scheme” to undermine the results […]
Brent Stirton/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A new four-count indictment handed down Tuesday against former President Donald Trump included details about six unnamed co-conspirators who prosecutors allege were involved in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election. “The Defendant and co-conspirators used knowingly false claims of election fraud to get state legislators and election officials to subvert […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s latest indictment — his third — charges him in connection with his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. The new counts, which Trump denies, quickly divided the GOP primary field that is running against him, with some of his fellow White House contenders opting to defend […]
Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (ORLANDO, Fla.) — Vice President Kamala Harris returned to Florida Tuesday and continued to take aim at the state’s widely panned new Black history curriculum standard that suggests enslaved people learned skills that could later benefit them. “Right here in Florida, they plan to teach students that enslaved […]
Евгения Матвеец/Getty Images (FLORIDA) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has sent a letter inviting Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss his state’s new Black history standards. In a letter obtained by ABC News, DeSantis invited Harris to discuss the new standards with him and Dr. William Allen, one of the architects of the new history […]
Gabriel Cristea / 500px/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — House Republicans on Monday launched an inquiry into the Justice Department’s plea deal with Hunter Biden, which was put on hold after falling apart in court last week. Three Republican-led House committees — the Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means panels — sent a letter to Attorney […]
FilippoBacci/Getty Images (OHIO) — Ohioans next week will vote in a special election to determine whether to raise the threshold required to amend the state constitution — and then, three months after that, voters will either approve or reject a ballot measure to enshrine abortion access in the state constitution. A “yes” vote in Ohio’s […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Devon Archer, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, met with lawmakers behind closed doors Monday to testify about the younger Biden’s business dealings and what, if any, involvement his father had with them. Archer and his attorney Matthew Schwartz were on Capitol Hill for several hours for a closed-door interview […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (ROCHESTER, N.H.) — As his presidential campaign embarks on a strategic reset, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday unveiled a broad economic agenda aimed at, among other things, severing the United States’ business ties with China, ending “reckless” federal spending and fighting “woke” policies that he argues have infiltrated America’s financial systems. […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — On Jan. 2, 2021, former President Donald Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes needed to win the state in the 2020 election. The now-infamous phone call helped spark a criminal investigation launched the following month by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looking into the […]