Top officials warn of foreign interference in 2024 election WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Top U.S. leaders are sounding the alarm about foreign interference in the 2024 election. There are concerns that our government isn’t doing enough to safeguard the election ... 04/26/2024 - 8:06 am | View Link
Who are the 18 indicted co-conspirators in the Arizona fake electors’ scheme? So far, the state’s attorney general’s office has disclosed 11 identities of the 18 people indicted for their role in an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election, reports Kelly Rissma ... 04/25/2024 - 11:56 am | View Link
Justice Department is investigating McKinsey consulting firm’s role in opioid epidemic The Justice Department is investigating McKinsey & Company, one of the world’s largest consulting firms, over its role in advising drug companies on how to boost sales of opioids, according to sources ... 04/25/2024 - 8:53 am | View Link
Another DC 7-Eleven robbed with fire extinguisher, police say When they arrived, they found the robbery involved a fire extinguisher. This would be the fifth such robbery of 7-Eleven stores across D.C. since April 15. In one such heist, a person was caught on ... 04/23/2024 - 7:32 am | View Link
What could the region do to ensure WMATA not only survives but thrives? The District, Maryland, and Virginia look set to fill WMATA’s short-term budget gap. But the region needs a plan for ensuring the agency is financially sustainable in the long term. What are the ... 04/23/2024 - 3:27 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.