A Republican donor has accused Corey Lewandowski, a longtime political adviser to former President Trump, of inappropriately touching and sexually harassing her at a recent charity event in Las Vegas. Trashelle Odom, who is married to Idaho construction executive John Odom, said Lewandowski inappropriately touched her and made “vile” comments …
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Texas’ SB 8, the most restrictive abortion ban in the country, effectively outlawing the procedure after six weeks, has been in effect for almost one month. In that time, hundreds of Texans have been forced to spend hundreds of dollars and drive hours to neighboring states to receive abortion care. …
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Time to reset the clock:after dozens of empty threats, Donald Trump has made good on a promise to sue a journalist — or, in this case, three: the trio of Pulitzer Prize-winningNew York Times reporters who revealed, back in 2018, decades of tax dodges and even instances of “outright fraud” …
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Like a serial murderer in a horror movie, the Texas voter suppression bill will not die. The state’s Republican lawmakers will hold a third special session of the legislature in the hopes of passing a law that would severely restrict voting in the state, along with a slate of other …
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UPDATE: Rep. Jim Jordan confirmed to Spectrum News on Wednesday that he spoke with Trump on January 6th. “I spoke with the president last week, I speak with the president all the time, I spoke with him on January 6th,” Jordan said. He couldn’t seem to recall, however, if he …
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has made a career out of publicly harassing her imagined enemies. She got a dose of her own medicine on Tuesday when her joint press conference with Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) was broken up by protesters, one of …
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Following the Wednesday assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, the U.S. is sending senior federal law enforcement officials to the island nation, which has requested American troops to help maintain order. Senior officials from the Department of Homeland Security and FBI will leave for Haiti‘s capital city Port Au Prince …
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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to impose guidelines on the vaping industry, ensuring (for now, at least) that the agency will continue to regulate e-cigarettes and vaporizers as it sees fit. The challenge — brought by a Mississippi …
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm issued a warning to American companies: our adversaries have the capability to shut down the entire U.S. power grid. When Granholm was asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper about vulnerabilities in the electricity grid and whether a foreign actor has the ability to shut it down, Granholm …
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A little less than two months ago, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott held a hastily called press conference outside an emergency shelter in San Antonio, where he delivered a blistering indictment of the federal government’s failure to properly care for the migrant children held there. “This facility,” Abbott said, “is a …
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