A staff member for Rep. Brad Finstad was attacked at gunpoint just blocks from the Capitol following Wednesday night’s Congressional Baseball for Charity, the Minnesota Republican said. Finstad said one of his staffers was attacked outside his residence that night, after thousands of congressional staffers and Washington, D.C.-area residents filled …
Read More »McCarthy dismisses House Freedom Caucus members’ threats to oust him over debt ceiling deal
Washington — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he is not concerned about threats from House Freedom Caucus members to oust him from the speakership over the debt ceiling deal with President Biden. “Look, everybody has the ability to do what they want,” McCarthy said Wednesday. “But if you think I’m …
Read More »FBI improperly searched foreign intelligence data on Jan. 6 suspects and Black Lives Matter defendants
Officials at the FBI improperly searched a foreign intelligence database as they investigated suspects in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots and more than 100 people arrested in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in June 2020, according declassified court opinions released Friday by the Office of the Director of National …
Read More »Rudy Giuliani denies sexual assault allegations made in $10 million lawsuit by former employee
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and attorney for former President Donald Trump, is being sued in a lawsuit seeking $10 million in damages by a former employee accusing him of “sexual assault and harassment, wage theft, and other misconduct.” The 70-page complaint was filed in a …
Read More »GOP donor Harlan Crow paid tuition for Clarence Thomas’ grandnephew, report says
Washington — Texas real estate developer and Republican donor Harlan Crow paid the tuition for Justice Clarence Thomas’ grandnephew at two private schools, according to a report published Thursday. The report from the news outlet ProPublica revealed that Crow wired $6,200 in July 2009 for one month of tuition for …
Read More »Appeals court grants temporary delay in Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg’s effort to block prosecutor’s testimony before Rep. Jim Jordan, House Judiciary Committee
Hours before an ex-prosecutor was scheduled to appear before a House committee investigating the Manhattan prosecution of former President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court issued a stay that will delay the testimony. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Wednesday …
Read More »Pentagon documents leaked: Biden administration still assessing extent of damage
The Biden administration is trying to manage the fallout from leaked classified intelligence documents that started circulating online in the past week. FBI leads leak investigation as Pentagon narrows access to classified documents Photos of pages of paper documents that appear to have been unfolded have appeared on social media, …
Read More »Rep. Joaquin Castro has surgery to remove cancerous tumors
Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro underwent “successful” surgery to remove gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors, he tweeted Monday. Castro, who is recovering in Texas, said he expects to return to Washington, D.C., in “several weeks.” Castro said doctors discovered the “small, slow-growing, and mostly asymptomatic tumors” last summer after a series of tests. …
Read More »FBI search of Biden’s Rehoboth Beach home yields no documents with classified markings, attorney says
Washington — FBI agents conducted a search of President Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday morning in relation to the probe into documents marked classified in his residence and former private office. Bob Bauer, the president’s personal attorney, said the search lasted under four hours, from 8:30 a.m. …
Read More »Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson working on memoir, “Lovely One”
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is working on a memoir. Jackson, the first Black woman appointed to the court, is calling the book “Lovely One.” “Mine has been an unlikely journey,” Jackson said in a statement released Thursday by Random House. “But the path was paved by courageous women …
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