Secretary of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to provide Election Night update Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Al Schmidt, will provide an update on Pennsylvania's primary election. 04/23/2024 - 1:52 pm | View Link
Tim Kennedy, Gary Dickson to debate on WIVB Wednesday night The NY-26 special election is just days away. The candidates, Democrat Tim Kennedy and Republican Gary Dickson, are set to debate on News 4 on Wednesday night. The debate begins at 7:30 p.m. on WIVB ... 04/23/2024 - 11:20 am | View Link
Beyond the spin, beyond the handouts, here's how to get a handle on what's really happening on budget night If you are looking for the truth, flip your way to about page 87 of the main budget document, where the government must make clear what it is doing and why. 04/23/2024 - 9:30 am | View Link
As voters head to the polls in Pa. primary, Lehigh Valley election workers preparing for vote count Tuesday night In Northampton County, voter turnout is low. Even so, election workers have their hands full preparing ballots for tabulation once the polls close at 8 p.m. "We received about 20,000 mail-in ballots," ... 04/23/2024 - 9:15 am | View Link
Primary election night 2024 in Pennsylvania: live updates, results from key races We will also be following contested statewide races. The most recent updates will be at the top of the post, so please refresh throughout the night to see the latest. UPDATE 6 p.m.: Reporter Daniel ... 04/23/2024 - 7:00 am | View Link
A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their abusers, state lawmakers passed a bill that could allow some of those mothers’ sentences to be shortened. But this week, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed the legislation.
In an award-winning investigation in 2022, I told the story of Kerry King, a mom in Tulsa who got 30 years in prison under the state’s “failure to protect” law because she couldn’t stop her abusive boyfriend from beating her 4-year-old daughter.
CNN's Dana Bash reacts to Joshua Steinglass' cross-examination of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, about whether he suppressed stories to help a presidential candidate during the 2016 elections.
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Public birthday wishes are a tricky art.
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.