Two years ago, President Trump made historic gains with Hispanic voters nationwide and won a majority of Texas Hispanics, upending conventional wisdom and setting back the Democratic Party’s hopes of making the state competitive. But now, Hispanics may be coming back. They’re frustrated with the state of the economy and concerned about the Trump administration’s…
A federal magistrate judge on Monday dismissed a criminal complaint charging two former senior FBI counterintelligence officials with lying to Congress about their roles in the bureau’s Hunter Biden investigation, saying the politically charged case lacked evidence and appeared to be timed with the midterm election. In a scathing, hour-long oral ruling, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui rebuked…
On a May evening back in 1950, Evelyn Trent had just finished feeding her rabbits when, she claims, she looked up and saw a slow-moving, metallic disk-shaped object hovering above her farm. Though some dismissed it as a hoax, her account was added to a growing list of unexplained events that sparked America’s first UFO…
Washington — Ace Parsi describes himself as “personally pretty against AI.” The Democrat is running an uphill race against Republican Rep. Riley Moore in ruby-red West Virginia and has drafted a legislative proposal to block new data centers that don’t have buy-in from constituents. But after what he said was probably the most complicated decision…
Washington — The raid of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home. The indictment of a prominent Virginia state senator for drug and bribery offenses. The charging of two ex-FBI officials with lying about their roles in the investigation of Hunter Biden. The overt investigative steps that the Justice Department took on these three criminal cases just…
Washington — Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center are asking a judge to allow them to subpoena a former informant who has provided material to the Justice Department, saying that investigators are treating the witness like he is “part of the prosecutorial team itself.” Defense attorneys for the civil rights nonprofit accused the government…
Attorney General Todd Blanche has long maintained that the so-called Epstein files, even those kept from the public, contain no secret information related to national security. When the document releases began last winter, Blanche noted that the Epstein Files Transparency Act authorized withholding information in the interest of national security or foreign policy, but said,…
Call it the “avoidance” election, with many on each side more motivated by trying to prevent or stop things than by what they’ll gain. Against a backdrop of continued concern about inflation and the economy, Democrats maintain their lead in a bid for a House majority. They’re currently on pace for 229 seats in our…
As artificial intelligence capabilities improve, many Americans are worried that the technology could one day put them out of work — a possibility more lawmakers in Washington are preparing for. Members of Congress have recently introduced a series of bills to safeguard the nation’s workforce against potential AI-related disruptions. Their proposals range in scope, with…
Washington — Federal agents in the western U.S. this year encountered a large, triangular aircraft that zoomed through the sky from a standstill while making no noise or giving off any exhaust, according to new documents released by the Pentagon. The agents’ recollections were included in the Defense Department’s latest release of files related to…
