859 articles in the Politics & Elections category.
By Tommy Flynn
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack by naming the Israeli dead and then accusing the Israeli government of an “ongoing genocide” in Gaza. “This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers,” he wrote Wednesday on his...
By Tommy Flynn
Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday and Wednesday released another batch of diary pages kept by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime National Institutes of Health official who led the government’s public COVID response. The pages show Fauci disparaging Donald Trump years before the pandemic,...
By Tommy Flynn
New Hampshire students cannot use a college identification card as proof of identity to receive a ballot, a federal judge ruled, leaving in place a law Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed in April. The same order blocked a broader directive from the secretary of state that had tried to bar...
By Tommy Flynn
Newly released FBI memos show the bureau tracked Melania Trump and Barron Trump’s travel while planning the 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago, then later logged calls to and from Susie Wiles’ phone, including contacts with Trump’s lawyers. The White House Government Transparency Task...
By Tommy Flynn
Proposition 39 would require a government ID in person and the last four digits of a designated ID number on a mail ballot. Sponsors say 36 states already do some version of this. The state Democratic Party calls it a Trump-backed barrier. Tommy Flynn, October 5, 2026 California...
By Tommy Flynn
The Ninth Circuit on Sunday put on hold a judge’s order that would have put Roger Rogoff back in as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, the Seattle prosecutor President Trump fired in July less than an hour after federal judges named him. The appeals court...
By Tommy Flynn
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered every command in the U.S. military to halt normal operations for one day this month so service members can register, request absentee ballots, or vote ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. The directive is in a memorandum dated Oct. 1 and...
By Tommy Flynn
Former special counsel Jack Smith was photographed Saturday at a Maryland music festival wearing a Bruce Springsteen tour shirt printed with the slogan “No Kings,” four days after he told a Senate committee his prosecutions of President Trump were driven by evidence, not party....
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump on Saturday asked Congress to end probation for people convicted of stealing from Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, and to make sentences rise with the amount taken. He made the request in a video posted to Truth Social at about 9:12 a.m. Eastern. No bill...
By Tommy Flynn
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a 25 percent tax on the gross income of private detention facilities, a levy that reaches every Immigration and Customs Enforcement site in California. The bill is AB 1633. Newsom signed it Tuesday with a package of about 20 other measures and...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal judge in Miami has dismissed the Justice Department’s case against a noncitizen accused of voting in 2020 and ruled that the statute prosecutors used is unconstitutional. Biden appointed U.S. District Judge David S. Leibowitz, of the Southern District of Florida,...
By Tommy Flynn
The FBI has turned over another 249 pages on Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who opened fire on Donald Trump at a July 13, 2024, rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the bureau should stop the “slow drip” of heavily redacted records and...