880 articles in the Politics & Elections category.
By Tommy Flynn
Washington, D.C. – Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has submitted multiple criminal referrals to the EPA Inspector General and the Department of Justice concerning what he described as a pattern of self-dealing and waste in billions of dollars of green...
By Thérèse Boudreaux | The Center Square
(The Center Square) – After leaving town for a week without sending a key immigration enforcement funding package to President Donald Trump’s desk, Congress returns Monday to a backlog of responsibilities. Republicans’ $72 billion budget reconciliation bill, providing three...
By Tommy Flynn
Washington, D.C. – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared on X that President Donald Trump is on the edge of an historic victory in the Iran conflict through skilled leadership of a broad Middle East coalition. In his May 29, 2026 post, Gingrich wrote: “After spending this...
By Tommy Flynn
Washington, D.C. – More than 10,000 federal government attorneys have left their positions since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, according to federal employment data analyzed by The New York Times. The federal civilian legal workforce dropped to...
By Tommy Flynn
Washington, D.C. – A former senior intelligence official who served as advisor to the Deputy Director of National Intelligence during the Obama administration has filed a formal complaint asserting that the October 19, 2020, public letter signed by 51 former intelligence...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has publicly called for canceling the Freedom 250 concert scheduled for July 4 on the National Mall, citing recent artist walkouts and calling the planned event “third rate.” In a statement released Saturday, Trump said the large-scale concert...
By Tommy Flynn
DENVER — Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters is scheduled to be released from a Colorado prison on Monday after Governor Jared Polis commuted her nine-year sentence on May 15. Polis announced the commutation as part of a larger batch of clemency actions, describing the original...
By Tommy Flynn
BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana House of Representatives on May 28 approved a new congressional redistricting map that would reduce the state’s majority-Black districts from two to one, giving Republicans a strong opportunity to expand their delegation ahead of the 2026 midterms....
By Tommy Flynn
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on May 27, 2026, seeking to overturn a federal three-judge panel’s ruling that blocked the state’s 2023 congressional redistricting map for the 2026 midterm elections. The...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief with the Supreme Court on May 27, 2026, asking the justices to review a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that struck down key provisions of Arizona’s 2022 voter registration and election laws. The Trump...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ruled Thursday, May 28, 2026, that Democratic plaintiffs failed to establish standing to block President Donald Trump's March 31, 2026, executive order aimed at strengthening election integrity through citizenship checks and mail-in...
By Tommy Flynn
HOUSTON — Veteran Democratic Congressman Al Green lost his primary election Tuesday in Texas’s 9th Congressional District, bringing an end to his two-decade career in the U.S. House. Green, 78, was defeated by a challenger who ran on a platform emphasizing criminal justice...