A few days after the 2020 presidential election, Andrew Nickels called an elections clerk in Michigan. He left a voice mail. “We’re watching your … mouth talk about how you think that there’s no irregularities” in the election, he said, according to a transcript later published by the Justice Department. “You frauded out America of […]
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) faces a challenge from the right flank of his party as he attempts to win reelection in Nebraska’s 2nd District without the support of the state and local chapters of the Republican Party. Bacon is running against populist business executive Dan Frei, who secured the endorsement of the Nebraska GOP and […]
Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia state lawmaker who served three months in prison after pleading guilty to a felony for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, is hoping to return to Washington. Evans faces Rep. Carol Miller in Tuesday’s Republican primary for West Virginia’s 1st District. The three-term congresswoman […]
Joe Biden awoke suddenly in his hotel room, curled up on the floor and fully clothed, and felt an electric surge inside his head, “a rip of pain like I never felt before,” as he later recalled. It was 4:10 a.m. on a winter day in 1988. The debilitating headaches had been happening for nearly […]
NEW YORK — At first, Michael Cohen testified about all the problems he fixed for Donald Trump — the boss whose praise made Cohen feel like he was “on top of the world.” When reporters angered Trump, Cohen threatened them. When a Miss USA contestant criticized Trump’s beauty pageant, he sprang into legal action. When […]
NEW YORK — Former lawyer Michael Cohen, the key witness in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, began testifying Monday against his ex-boss — unspooling what prosecutors hope will be a critical thread of evidence tying the presumptive Republican presidential nominee directly to an illegal scheme to conceal a 2016 payment to an adult-film actress. This […]
As is now his habit, Donald Trump took advantage of the press waiting for his arrival at his criminal trial in Manhattan on Monday to talk about the things he wanted to talk about. To wit: new polling from Siena College showing him leading in several battleground states — and maybe a new indicator that […]
MADISON, Wis. — Liberals who control the Wisconsin Supreme Court signaled Monday that they were prepared to overturn a two-year-old decision that banned absentee ballot drop boxes and allow them for the 2024 election. The justices’ comments during oral arguments offered the latest sign that the liberal majority is prepared to act boldly and swiftly […]
Donald Trump’s mouth and keyboard fingers have been relatively disciplined — by his own standards, at least — since he racked up the 10th gag-order violation of his Manhattan criminal trial last week. Facing the threat of jail, he’s generally avoided three verboten subjects that have gotten him in trouble before. Those would be attacking […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Monday of mounting violent threats against election workers across the country, and vowed that the Justice Department will be “relentless” in prosecuting those who threaten the democratic process. Speaking to reporters ahead of a meeting of the department’s Election Threats Task Force, Garland cited a handful of cases over the […]