MINNEAPOLIS. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced Monday that her office charged ICE agent Christian Castro with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime for the Jan. 14 shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis during Operation Metro Surge, and a nationwide warrant has been issued for...
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Only three of Alabama’s seven U.S. House districts will hold binding primaries on Tuesday after a U.S. Supreme Court decision prompted Republican officials to discard recently adopted congressional maps. State authorities postponed primaries in the 1st, 2nd, 6th, and 7th Districts to an August 11 special primary...
Washington — President Donald Trump filed a notice Monday dismissing his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Justice announced creation of an Anti-Weaponization Fund of about $1.776 billion along with a formal apology to the plaintiffs. Plaintiffs included...
WASHINGTON. The Supreme Court on Monday set aside appeals-court rulings and sent two cases involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act back to lower courts, ordering further consideration of whether private individuals and advocacy groups can sue to challenge state legislative maps drawn after the 2020 Census. In the...
ALLEN, Texas. President Donald Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday at a campaign event in Allen, amplifying Paxton's push against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn as early voting began this week ahead of the May 26 Republican U.S. Senate runoff; the contest follows a March 3 primary where...
Washington. President Donald Trump on Monday moved to withdraw his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns, filing the notice in federal court in Florida; the filing followed reports last week that his administration was prepared to resolve the matter in connection...
Northern Kentucky — Voters will decide on May 19 whether Rep. Thomas Massie will retain his House seat against Trump-endorsed challenger Ed Gallrein in the Republican primary, a contest marked by unprecedented campaign spending, national surrogates on the trail, and recent personal allegations from an ex-partner that circulated online in...
Atlanta. Voters cast ballots in Tuesday's Georgia primary, where record fundraising and heavy Republican spending contrasted with Democrats driving a surge in turnout that exceeded prior cycles; pre-election early voting surpassed one million, giving Democrats a nearly 15 percent turnout advantage over Republicans and pushing many contests toward June 16...
COLUMBIA, S.C. State lawmakers will begin a full House airing Monday on proposed congressional map changes after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that reduced certain Voting Rights Act protections; Republican leaders aim to redraw districts in ways that could yield a Republican clean sweep of the state's seven U.S....
Washington: Thousands gathered on the National Mall on Sunday, May 17, for Rededicate 250, a daylong prayer event organized by Freedom 250. Speakers included House Speaker Mike Johnson and Pastor Samuel Rodriguez; former President Donald Trump appeared in a recorded Scripture reading. Organizers presented the gathering as a national rededication...
