649 articles in the Politics category.
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — The Senate parliamentarian on Saturday ruled that $1 billion in proposed security funding tied to President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom cannot be included in a $72 billion immigration enforcement spending package, dealing a setback to Republican...
By Tommy Flynn
MINNEAPOLIS — Aimee Bock, the woman prosecutors called the ringleader of Minnesota’s massive $250 million COVID-era meal fraud scheme, told the New York Post in a jailhouse interview published Friday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) had to have known about the widespread scam. “I...
By RWTNews Staff
FRANKFORT, Ky. — U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., is seriously considering a bid for Kentucky governor in 2027, telling local media he expects to make a final decision around December and has already begun traveling the state to gauge support. Comer, chairman of the House Oversight...
By Tommy Flynn
DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the nine-year prison sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, reducing it roughly in half and making her eligible for parole on June 1. Peters, 70, will remain a convicted felon but is expected to be released from...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Virginia Democrats’ emergency appeal to reinstate a voter-approved constitutional amendment that would have authorized mid-decade congressional redistricting, leaving the state’s current court-drawn maps in place for the...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the unauthorized leak of his tax returns, according to multiple reports citing sources familiar with the negotiations. Under the emerging settlement, the IRS...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Less than six months before the 2026 midterms, the Supreme Court’s April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais — which sharply limited race-based considerations under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — has triggered a wave of mid-decade map changes in Republican-led...
By Tommy Flynn
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton stripped every Democratic lawmaker of their committee and subcommittee assignments Tuesday as punishment for disruptive protests during the special session on congressional redistricting. In a letter dated May 12...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Donald Trump, his two eldest sons and the Trump Organization have begun discussions with the Internal Revenue Service aimed at resolving a $10 billion lawsuit filed over the unauthorized leak of the president’s confidential tax records to news...
By Tommy Flynn
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp called the Georgia General Assembly into a special session starting June 17 to redraw the state’s congressional and legislative maps for the 2028 election cycle and resolve a looming deadline on voting equipment changes. The move follows the U.S....
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence flatly denied Wednesday night that the CIA raided Director Tulsi Gabbard’s office and seized boxes of classified documents related to the John F. Kennedy assassination and the CIA’s MK-Ultra mind-control program....
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Newly obtained FBI documents reveal that agents working with Special Counsel Jack Smith deliberately closed their investigation into former President Donald Trump while preserving all evidence and materials until at least February 2030 — long after Trump’s second...