With Issue 1, Republicans are trying to kneecap a ballot initiative that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.

The few protesters were met by dozens of people supportive of LGBTQ+ youth.

Trump now faces 78 felony counts in three indictments but has yet to wear handcuffs, lose his passport, post bail or even have his mug shot taken.

His comments on white nationalism spring from the desire for a Proud Boys army.

Certain facts cannot be denied: The Earth is warming, and fossil fuel emissions contribute to that warming. Today, we weep for Maui. What next?

United States Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) on Sunday ripped into House of Representatives Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) for continuing to pursue testimony from...

E. Jean Carroll is suing Trump for making allegedly defamatory remarks about her while he was president.

New bills are targeting young voters — and students in particular.

When Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was running for Congress, he hooked up a fellow Republican candidate running against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) with a consulting firm he had established —...

Experts explain why "Republicans appear to be in denial about the actual crisis in their party"

Will that number soon increase to 50? We can only hope

"Just in the last 18 months, 15 companies have stopped writing [insurance] business in Florida"

The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.

Crime is down, inflation is falling and the border is quiet. Little wonder the House speaker is floating impeachment of the president for … something

In September 2018, Attorney General Ken Paxton gathered his staff to make a fateful confession. With two months to go before Election Day — and holding hands with his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton —...

The legal field is in need of serious redemption

Trump allies who've been grilled by Special Counsel Jack Smith's team agree: Powell should be prepared for criminal charges.

Willis called out Trump's co-defendants over his "displeasure at the prospect of inconvenient travel."

Organized labor has been a driving force behind many of the gains the middle class has made throughout US history.

Calling the current system “a national embarrassment,” the group that pushed for a 2018 constitutional amendment designed to restore voting rights to felons who had completed their sentences has...

These guys are comically bad at criming.

Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows revelations show the Big Liars can't hide behind "delusional" defense

House Judiciary Committee Democrats are asking the Justice Department (DOJ) to turn over information about a trip former Attorney General Bill Barr and special counsel John Durham took to Italy aft…

Trump apparently expected the judge to refer to him by his former title

The Fulton County district attorney is still fighting an effort to unseal the special purpose grand jury report on Donald Trump.A Superior Court judge ordered the partial release, including its...

A federal judge has ruled Oregon’s voter-approved gun control measure — one of the toughest in the nation — is constitutional. U.S.

A Washington, D.C., bar panel recommended Rudy Giuliani “should be disbarred” for his actions in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.

“My whole dream of my life has been taken,” Audrey Southard-Rumsey reportedly said in a 15-minute tirade.

Former New College President Donal O'Shea says the school has lost an alarming number of talented faculty members over the past few months.

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's request for a new trial after a jury found the former US president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll and awarded...

A federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., has ordered a halt to construction on a section of an interstate pipeline backed prominently by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and fast-tracked by Congress. In…

Judge Juan Merchan has declined to recuse himself from overseeing former President Trump's hush-money case in New York.

A Chicago man who went inside former Speaker Pelosi’s office and stole a prized photograph and the wallet of one her staffers during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol, was sentenced Friday…

A 16-year-old boy’s death in Mississippi comes weeks after two other minors died on the job in Missouri and Wisconsin.

Monday was going to be the rousing climax of his latest drama. Jack Smith was going to drop like Ivan Drago in the last reel. Fani Willis' prosecution was going to find a torpedo going down its...

A state trial judge has cited Florida’s long history of discrimination against Black voters in declaring unconstitutional Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to erase the ability of Black voters in the northern...

Arizona AG Kris Mayes is looking into Rudy Giuliani's role in the fake-elector scheme Trump and his allies allegedly tried to carry out in the state.

Former President Donald Trump and his lawyers brace for more possible criminal charges in Georgia, with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis presenting her case to a grand jury today in her...

And that's not the senator's only recent profitable trade that's drawing attention.

Signs have returned to the Tennessee Capitol complex after a judge agreed to temporarily block a new rule advanced by House Republicans that had largely banned them.

It is fitting for President Biden to push for protections from the heat in what will likely be the hottest month in recorded history.

Oh yeah. The way-too-long awaited and historic mug shot of Donald J. Trump, now listed in the Fulton County Jail database as prisoner number P01135809, has been released to joyful applause by...

Teachers say they’re feeling more disrespected, unappreciated and under attack than ever before by new laws championed by Governor Ron DeSantis

Former Trump strategist and campaign chief ordered to fork over $480,000 for unpaid legal bills

New poll reveals that members of the MAGA cult trust Trump most: He "provides the kind of love they crave"

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is blaming Florida's rising inflation rates — the highest in the U.S. for some metro areas — on President Biden while continuing to campaign for his 2024 election bid....

"I use this word very, very advisably, I’m not just popping off here," the presidential historian says on "Morning Joe" The post Jon Meacham Gets Blunt About Trump’s 4th Indictment: ‘This Was a Coup...

More than of of Republicans said they would not vote for Mr Trump if he were ‘currently serving time in prison’

We have seen calls to consider whether it is moral to allow billionaires to exist. But the real question is whether our species can survive the billionaire.

Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages had an increased chance...

The cost of homeowners insurance in Florida has increased 100 percent over the last few years

Former President Donald Trump is expected to soon face yet another indictment in the January 6 case, and it could come as soon as this week.But that isn't enough to undo the damage he has done to his...

"I can’t go. I have to stay around and fight off the Crazed Radical Left Lunatics," Trump says

John Floyd, a special assistant D.A., is described as the "last person" a RICO defendant wants to encounter

A home-schooled lawyer has spent the majority of his professional career fighting public schools to no avail. They're harmful, he claimed, but his pleas have for years fallen on deaf ears. But it...

An older generation remembers President Richard Nixon desperately insisting, during the Watergate scandal, “I am not a crook.” Along the same lines, right-wing Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett...

The recent rally is the union's second gathering on the famed Strip in recent months

Special counsel Jack Smith requested the order Friday to prevent evidence from being discussed publicly before Trump’s trial

Orlando-area Democratic U.S. Representative Maxwell Frost says that elected officials like himself need to get more involved in turning around the electoral fortunes of the Florida Democratic Party....

Each time GOP leaders have had the opportunity to move away from Trump, the party has sped past the off-ramp.

"The plans House Republicans are committed to passing would destroy half a million jobs and slam the brakes on our economy."

A minor crash in Tennessee has revealed Ron DeSantis’ use of taxpayer cash on his campaign – spending that would have been kept secret if the accident had happened in Florida because of laws that he...

Republican Brian Kelsey had pleaded not guilty before changing his plea to guilty. He then tried to take back his guilty plea, but the judge denied the request.

The Arkansas Republican has introduced a bill tying help for Afghans who supported the U.S. to limits on President Biden's immigration policies.

The legislation would repeal a restriction on workers receiving SNAP benefits while on strike.

During an MSNBC interview, the former Trump attorney highlighted the dangers of cooperating with prosecutors

A majority of Americans (51%) think Tuesday's indictment of Donald Trump related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election is very serious, a ABC News/Ipsos poll found

In a recent CNN interview (and on many previous occasions), Alabama U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville insisted that the phrase a “white nationalist” simply meant someone who’s “a good American.” When...

Healthcare executive Anthony Welters reportedly gave Thomas an undisclosed loan to purchase the $267K vehicle in 1999

The payments were designed to pay the congress member back for loans he previously made to his campaign.

The names of grand jurors have been made public by the Georgia court where the former US president was charged with racketeering

As Republican-led states roll back the alcohol service age so teens can serve hard drinks, they also put them in danger

Waging culture war at the local level is backfiring on Republicans.

Gov. Ron DeSantis complains that RICO is for "organized crime" — but that's exactly what a coup conspiracy is

Humanity needs to plan accordingly for the countless number of future climate refugees fleeing rising oceans

Most Republican voters don't think the state should intervene to combat "woke" corporations, according to a poll.

In an address to union workers ahead of Labor Day, Bernie Sanders says that unprecedented corporate greed demands an unprecedented worker response. We reprint his remarks here.

Small liberal arts college is being steadily eroded by a DeSantis-aligned board, in ominous sign for higher studies in a country torn by culture wars

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been taking gifts from rich conservatives going back to when he worked in the Reagan administration.

Republicans can't escape an accused felon — who keeps nudging his supporters toward violence. How did we get here?

At least two lawmakers on Friday hit back at Samuel Alito over the Supreme Court justice’s suggestion that the nation’s highest court is above congressional scrutiny.“What a surprise, guy who is...

Reacting to United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan issuing a weekend order for Donald Trump and his lawyers to respond to a Protective Order request by the...

Superintendent Tom Horne has threatened to withhold funding from schools that use the instructional model to teach English Language Learner students.

Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyEnraged members of Florida’s original task force on African American education say they were purposefully kept in the dark about the...

Mississippi is starting the court-ordered process of letting people cite religious beliefs to seek exemptions from state-mandated vaccinations that children must receive before attending day care or...

Exclusive: racketeering charges based on influencing witnesses and computer trespass, sources say

"We will not allow the clock to be turned back on our democracy, for our hard-fought gains to vanish, or for our children to have less democracy, less rights, less environmental justice than we do...

A 1,000-page handbook lays out how to fire up to 50,000 workers and staff the federal government with an "army" of conservatives.