Jurors in Trump hush money trial hear recording of pivotal call: ‘What do we got to pay for this?’ The jury got its first chance today to hear the explosive recording Michael Cohen secretly made of himself briefing Donald Trump on the plan to buy an ex-Playboy model’s story. 05/2/2024 - 2:55 pm | View Link
Two months to count election ballots? California's long tallies turn election day into weeks, months LOS ANGELES — Nearly two months after the election, a recount settled the outcome in a Northern California U.S. House primary contest, breaking a mathematically improbable tie for second place but ... 05/2/2024 - 12:56 pm | View Link
Column: How the GOP — with Democratic Party connivance — has undermined a crucial effort to avert the next pandemic Republicans and Democrats participated in a bipartisan effort to smear EcoHealth Alliance, which is devoted to helping to avoid another pandemic ... 05/1/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Democratic Senate incumbents leading in 2 swing states: Polling Incumbent Democratic senators running for reelection in two key battleground states lead their Republican opponents in polling released Monday. The polling of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from CBS ... 04/30/2024 - 6:08 am | View Link
DC News Now Maryland Primary Senate Democratic Forum U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks joins the DC News Now Maryland Primary Senate Democratic Forum, which includes analysis of Alsobrooks’ performance. Her Democratic opponent, David Trone, ... 04/29/2024 - 1:18 pm | View Link
“The presidential election may come down to a city in the Midwestern prairie that is home to Warren Buffett — a prospect that is raising hopes among some Democrats that the once-prolific political donor will come off the sidelines to try to power President Joe Biden to reelection,” Bloomberg reports.
“Back in 2016, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
“The U. S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets that have been frozen – and are accruing interest — mostly in Europe,” Bloomberg reports.
“Republicans have launched more than 30 investigations into the State Department since taking power in 2023, an unusually high number that is fueling partisan tensions,” Politico reports.
“Democratic lawmakers and State Department officials say this particular chapter of the growing partisan rancor on Capitol Hill is affecting U. S. foreign policy: It distracts U.
Nevada Independent: “The lawsuit alleges that the four-day period for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received violates federal law because it does not conform to the Election Day deadline established by the federal government.”
Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters.
In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required.