Former President Donald Trump posted on social media on Tuesday that he received a letter stating that he is the target of a criminal investigation by a grand jury investigating tries to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 elections. Multiple sources have confirmed to CBS News that the former president’s post … Read more
WASHINGTON — Center-right Republicans in the House are sounding the alarm that a series of aggressive demands from far-right lawmakers could scrap government funding legislation before a crucial deadline to avoid a shutdown. GOP members fend off a group of 21 ultraconservatives who sent President Kevin McCarthy, R-California, an ultimatum with explicit threats to vote … Read more
Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images Miles Taylor is many things but he is no longer Anonymous. That was the word he hid behind in writing a damning essay in the New York Times from inside Donald Trump’s White House and a subsequent book. Related: The Age of Insurrection review: how the far right rose – … Read more
COLUMBIA, SC (AP) — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis filed paperwork for South Carolina’s Republican primary on Tuesday, officially becoming the first major-party presidential candidate on the ballot for the first competition from the South. DeSantis signed his filing papers during a stop at South Carolina’s Republican Party headquarters in Columbia, flanked by supporters including state … Read more
WASHINGTON — No Labels is facing increasing scrutiny for the possibility that it could play a spoiler role in the 2024 presidential election, and its founder and CEO said in an exclusive interview that she pledges to end the group’s third-party effort in 2024 if it risks putting Donald Trump back in the White House. … Read more
On Monday, Fox News’ Jesse Watters received stern on-air advice – and a warning not to lose his job – from his own mother as he officially resumed the conservative network’s 8 p.m. slot previously occupied by Tucker Carlson . “Don’t fall into conspiratorial rabbit holes. We don’t want to lose you and we don’t … Read more
WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department announced last week that a man Republicans believed to be a witness against the Biden family was actually a fugitive on the run, Republicans said the criminal charges against him had no only bolsters their case against the Bidens. Prosecutors said Gal Luft failed to register as a foreign … Read more
Last summer, in the space of about 20 minutes, President Joe Biden laid out his plan to forgive student loan debt for more than 40 million borrowers. On Tuesday, about a year later and with that plan overturned by the Supreme Court, a very different process of debt cancellation on such a large scale begins. … Read more
By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – For the first time since the 1980s, a U.S. nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SNLE) is in South Korea, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, as allies began talks to coordinate responses in the event of a nuclear attack. war with North Korea. White House Indo-Pacific … Read more
Georgia’s highest court on Monday denied a request by former President Donald Trump to block a prosecutor from prosecuting him for his actions following the 2020 election. The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously denied a motion filed by Trump’s lawyers last week asking the court to intervene. Trump’s legal team argued that Fulton County District Attorney … Read more