“If media coverage is power, she’s a pretty powerful person in Washington right now,” one Georgia GOP aide told NOTUS.
May 07, 2024 06:43 PM
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May 07, 2024 05:24 PM
The case over former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is on hold after Judge Aileen Cannon canceled an upcoming trial date. She did not set a new trial date in the order on Tuesday, saying there are issues over classified evidence.
May 07, 2024 05:24 PM
May 07, 2024 02:53 PM
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team asked for a mistrial on Tuesday based on Stormy Daniels’ testimony, some of which an attorney said had “nothing to do with this case and is extremely prejudicial.” Judge Juan Merchan denied the request.
May 07, 2024 02:53 PM
May 07, 2024 02:45 PM
President Joe Biden said Tuesday there has been a “ferocious surge of antisemitism” since the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. “Too many [are] people denying, downplaying, rationalizing, ignoring the horrors of the Holocaust and Oct. 7,” he said in the speech.
May 07, 2024 02:45 PM
May 07, 2024 12:53 PM
TikTok filed a suit Tuesday against the federal government over the recently passed law meant to force its parent company, ByteDance, to sell. The suit from TikTok and ByteDance alleges the law is “obviously unconstitutional.”
May 07, 2024 12:53 PM
May 07, 2024 09:18 AM
Stormy Daniels, the blockbuster witness in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, is likely to take the stand Tuesday, according to her attorney. Trump complained in a now-deleted Truth Social post about the upcoming testimony: “I have just recently been told who the witness is today. This is unprecedented, no time for lawyers to prepare.”
May 07, 2024 09:18 AM
May 06, 2024 12:29 PM
President Joe Biden “reiterated his clear position on Rafah” on a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, the White House said. The call took place on Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.
May 06, 2024 12:29 PM
May 06, 2024 11:17 AM
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Monday that he’s running for another six-year term at age 82. He said in a video that he “has been, and will be if reelected, in a strong position to provide the kind of help that Vermonters need in these difficult times,” noting his committee assignments.
May 06, 2024 11:17 AM
May 06, 2024 09:40 AM
Judge Juan Merchan found former President Donald Trump in contempt of violating a gag order again — and warned that the consequences could get more serious. “It’s important you understand the last thing I want to do is put you in jail,” the judge said Monday. Trump’s love of posting has created a problem in the courts, as NOTUS’ Calen Razor reported.
May 06, 2024 09:40 AM
May 03, 2024 04:48 PM
Donald Trump’s former aide Hope Hicks testified for nearly three hours on Friday during the former president’s New York criminal trial, addressing the “Access Hollywood” tape, Trump’s family, relationships with the media and much more.
May 03, 2024 04:48 PM
May 03, 2024 02:28 PM
Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, were indicted and taken into custody on Friday. They allegedly accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from a company controlled by Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico. Cuellar has said they are innocent.
May 03, 2024 02:28 PM
May 03, 2024 11:44 AM
After NBC News reported that authorities are expected to indict Rep. Henry Cuellar on Friday, the Texas Democrat put out a statement proclaiming his innocence. “I want to be clear that both my wife and I are innocent of these allegations,” he said. “Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas.” He said he will continue his reelection bid and predicted a win in November.
May 03, 2024 11:44 AM
May 03, 2024 08:48 AM
The Biden administration is expanding access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act to some “Dreamers,” or young people who came to the U.S. as kids, as part of a rule to be introduced Friday. The Department of Health and Human Services estimated that 100,000 recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program would enroll.
May 03, 2024 08:48 AM
May 02, 2024 11:14 AM
President Joe Biden vowed on Thursday to protect both free speech and the rule of law. “There’s the right to protest, but not to cause chaos,” he said during remarks announced shortly ahead of time. Biden replied “no” when asked whether the National Guard should intervene in campus protests.
May 02, 2024 11:14 AM
May 02, 2024 09:41 AM
Former President Donald Trump confirmed that he asked to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a key part of testimony he previously tried to discredit. “I said, ‘I’d like to go down there because I see a lot of people walking down,’” he said Wednesday. “They said, ‘Sir, it’s better if you don’t.’ I said, ‘Well, I’d like to.’” He said he then let it go.
May 02, 2024 09:41 AM
May 01, 2024 05:38 PM
The House voted Wednesday to pass a bill that would require the Department of Education to follow the definition of antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Some Democrats were staunchly opposed, as NOTUS reported, but the bill easily passed in a 320-91 vote.
May 01, 2024 05:38 PM
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Mar 12, 2024
Republican Ken Buck Hightails It Out of Congress
Colorado Rep. Ken Buck announced today that he’d be leaving his seat in Congress next week instead of at the end of the year. With four vacancies in the House, Buck’s departure leaves Speaker Mike Johnson with the smallest of margins, 218-213, meaning he can only lose two members if he wants to pass party-line votes.
