Politics

Washington — On the heels of the overwhelming success abortion rights supporters saw at the ballot box in the 2022 election cycle, some GOP-led states have undertaken efforts to change the rules governing the ballot measure process, pushing new constraints that make it more difficult for initiatives to not only …

Washington — President Biden will still leave for Japan as scheduled on Wednesday but skip stops in Australia and Papua New Guinea to return to the U.S. early to work on the debt ceiling, the White House said. That news came as the president met with the top four congressional …

Washington — Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein returned to the Senate floor on Wednesday, appearing in public for the first time in nearly three months after health issues prompted even some members of her own party to call for her resignation. Feinstein, 89, was helped from a car outside the Capitol …

Security camera footage from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort has come under further scrutiny by federal investigators in special counsel Jack Smith’s office in recent months, according to two sources familiar with the matter.  Prosecutors have asked witnesses testifying before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., about the …

Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Massachusetts man arrested for his suspected connection to the disclosure of dozens of secret documents that revealed sensitive intelligence and defense information, has been charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents.  The airman in the …

A grand jury has indicted Kendrid Hamlin, the man suspected of assaulting Democratic Rep. Angie Craig, on three federal counts, including assault against a member of Congress.  Hamlin stands accused in the Feb. 9 attack on the Minnesota representative in which she says she was struck in the face. Hamlin, …

It was a mundane, unanimously supported bill on liquor taxation that saw state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh take to the mic on the Nebraska Legislature floor last week. She offered her support, then spent the next three days discussing everything but the bill, including her favorite Girl Scout cookies, Omaha’s best …

Washington — The chief executive of the Norfolk Southern railroad line appeared before a Senate panel on Thursday to answer questions about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, last month that set off a wave of concerns about threats to the environment and public health. CEO Alan Shaw testified …

An attorney for former President Donald Trump who worked to overturn his loss in battleground Wisconsin has been reappointed by the state Supreme Court’s four conservative justices to a second term on a committee that advises judges on judicial conduct. Jim Troupis’ reappointment to the panel was approved Thursday on …

Anyone following the House select committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault has probably heard the name John Eastman, the law professor who was referred to the Justice Department for possible prosecution on criminal charges on Monday.  Eastman allegedly pitched then-President Donald Trump on a scheme described Monday by …