Trump backers laugh off, cheer ‘dictator’ comments, as scholars voice alarm
CORALVILLE, Iowa — Clyde Carson was in the audience of the Fox News town hall with Donald Trump last week when host Sean Hannity asked the former president to rule…
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Border deal shows signs of life after Biden offer
Seemingly moribund talks on toughening U.S. border policy in exchange for providing aid to Ukraine were revived this week after the White House proposed allowing U.S. officials to summarily expel…
Supreme Court accepts Jan. 6 case that could affect or delay Trump trial
The Supreme Court on Wednesday took up a challenge to a law used to charge hundreds of people in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, and which also…
Biden meets with relatives of American hostages
President Biden spent nearly two hours Wednesday with family members of Americans being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, his first in-person meeting with the group since militant group attacked…
María Consuelo Loera, mother of jailed drug lord ‘El Chapo,’ dies at 94
A memory once shared by María Consuelo Loera was how her son counted the stacks of money as he started to rise in Mexico’s drug world. Then he would recount…
The GOP’s impeachment inquiry starts on shaky political ground
House Republicans crossed a threshold Wednesday in their investigations of President Biden, voting to formalize an impeachment inquiry authorized by the previous House speaker. If the GOP wasn’t committed to…
Ga. poll worker describes harrowing threats in Giuliani defamation trial
A former election worker in Fulton County, Ga., described in harrowing detail on Tuesday the way her life was turned upside down after Rudy Giuliani falsely accused her and her…
N.H. Gov. Chris Sununu endorses Nikki Haley for president
MANCHESTER, N.H. — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) has endorsed Nikki Haley for president, promising an animated audience that the former U.N. ambassador is the best alternative to former…
Harvard graduate Stefanik becomes face of GOP charge against elite universities
With one viral stretch at a congressional hearing, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) — a graduate of Harvard University — became the public face of a burgeoning Republican movement to target…
Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warrant, inquiry finds
The nation’s largest pharmacy chains have handed over Americans’ prescription records to police and government investigators without a warrant, a congressional investigation found, raising concerns about threats to medical privacy.…