Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr’s defense of campaign law violations against him suffered a big setback yesterday when his wife and co-Defendant entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is being accused of giving preferential access to businesses and businessmen tied to her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Despite appearing to have emerged from April’s election as the winner, Benjamin Netanyahu was unable to form a government. This means that Israel will have to hold new elections in September.
Justin Amash’s call for impeachment of the President, and the Republican Party’s reaction to it, is telling us a lot about the current state of the GOP.
The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?
The Trump Administration lost what is likely to be the first of many court challenges to its effort to stop Congress from doing what the Constitution requires it to do.
Thanks to Donald Trump and the GOP, there’s plenty of material out there for Saturday Night Live.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for President, making him the 23rd candidate in an already crowded field.
Passing up an opportunity that other Democrats are taking, Elizabeth Warren is declining to appear on Fox News Channel. This seems like an unwise decision.
Yet another candidate joins an already crowded field for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.
The President is systematically defying Congress. Whatever can be done about that?
After disappearing from public view for an extended period of time, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned yesterday amid an unfolding corruption scandal.
While street protests continue, the efforts to get the Venezuelan military to oust President Nicolas Maduro appear to have failed.
200-odd Congressional Democrats are taking an odd route to go after corruption.
Having lost to him, she’s an ineffective voice on the matter of Donald Trump.
The Wikileaks founder has been detained by London authorities after 7 years hiding in Ecuador’s embassy.
Both major parties have claimed victory but it certainly looks like Likud will hang on.
While polarization in our national politics gets the most attention, several states also face serious rural-urban tensions.
Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are the most famous of dozens of rich folks trying to get their kids into elite schools.
It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.
The Saudis tortured an American citizen, but the Trump Administration doesn’t care.
With criminal charges and an election hanging over his head, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking to the political right for support and survival.
The President of the United States and the most-talked-about freshman Representative in ages could not be more different.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.
The populist Democrat won’t be hosting fundraising dinners. Until the general election campaign, at least.
A North Carolina Congressional Election that was tainted by Absentee Ballot Fraud will be redone.
The end of racism may have been prematurely declared.
The former Attorney General is seriously pondering a presidential bid. Seriously.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest entrant into an already crowded field for the Democratic nomination.
After a week of scandal and chaos in Virginia politics, there’s no sign that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is going anywhere, and there’s very little that can be done to force him out of office.
The publisher of the National Enquirer is learning that it may have been a mistake to go to war against Jeff Bezos.
The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.
The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.
There’s a good reason why Democrats want Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to get out of the way sooner rather than later.
The situation in Venezuela entered a new stage yesterday as opposition leader Juan Guaidó claimed the nation’s Presidency.
President Trump is now threatening to close the border if he doesn’t get funding for his border wall.
The Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by the Trump Administration to have an injunction against its new asylum policy lifted.
A preliminary report from Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan found at least 500 Catholic Priests whose abuse of children had been covered up by Church officials.
Federal prosecutors are investigating the Trump Inaugural Committee, adding to the long list of the President’s legal troubles.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the U.S, Attorney for the Southern District of New York have filed sentencing memos that directly implicate the President in a series of felonies.
The evidence that the GOP lost the midterms because of public repudiation of President Trump is overwhelming. The GOP will either accept this and learn from it, or they will not.
Three Democratic Senators are suing the Acting Attorney General, asserting that his appointment was unconstitutional.
A new report indicates that President Trump wanted to use the Justice Department to target political enemies. The last time that happened, it led to Articles of Impeachment.
A Federal Judge has ruled that the Trump Administration’s efforts to limit the ability of migrants to claim asylum violates Federal law.
President Trump’s selection to serve as Acting Attorney General does not appear to be Constitutionally authorized to serve in that position.
