Donald Trump Campaign Accused of Spamming People With Unsolicited Emails Through a third-party blog, individuals are receiving unsolicited campaign emails aimed at reelecting the former president. 04/25/2024 - 11:29 pm | View Link
Steve Garvey: College campus protests over Gaza could trigger less federal aid to schools We cannot fund colleges and universities that are not protecting the students,” the U.S. Senate candidate from California said. 04/25/2024 - 11:02 am | View Link
Greg Folley hits airwaves with first TV ad in HD 81 Folley offers himself as a Ronald Reagan conservative running in HD 81. “I started my career as a college coordinator for Ronald Reagan, fought for American capitalism in business,” Folley said. “And ... 04/25/2024 - 2:35 am | View Link
Melodie Stenger: MCPS K-12 school board trustee candidate The vote for Missoula area school boards will feature competitive races in Missoula, Frenchtown, Potomac, Lolo and Clinton districts. Meanwhile, almost every school district in Missoula County has ... 04/25/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Texas school districts violated a law intended to add transparency to local elections The Texas Tribune and ProPublica analyzed 35 Texas school districts that held trustee elections last fall and found none that posted all of the required campaign finance records. 04/24/2024 - 11:00 pm | 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.