California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
08-15-2025

The battle over elections and redistricting is intensifying in Texas and across the U.S.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom is moving forward with a redistricting effort to add five Democratic seats to the U.S. House of Representatives, accusing President Trump and Republicans of "election rigging."

Marijuana Plant AS
08-14-2025

President Trump said Monday he is considering downgrading marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug, the most dangerous kind, alongside heroin and LSD, to a Schedule 3 drug, and would make his decision "over the next few weeks.  

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) will seek his party's presidential nomination in 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
08-11-2025

Sen. Tim Scott's new book offers a simple prescription to the moral decay and societal division: return to the faith of our founders and modern-day heroes.  

Donald Trump AP
08-11-2025

President Trump has fulfilled his promise to start cracking down on crime in the nation's capital. The president says crime in Washington is out of control, so he's using the federal government to take charge and go after criminals. 

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) holds a copy of a bill he cosponsored to force the House to vote on the release of the government's files on Jeffrey Epstein, July 21, 2025. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)
08-06-2025

Congress is targeting high-profile names with subpoenas in the Jeffrey Epstein case – among them: Bill and Hillary Clinton. Now, the White House is considering releasing Epstein associate Ghislain Maxwell's recent interview with the Justice Department.

Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, surrounded by other Democratic members of Congress and Texas House Democrats, speaks during a press conference at the Democratic Party in Warrenville, Ill., Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
08-05-2025

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is threatening to arrest Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to block a vote that has big implications for which party will control the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026.

President Donald Trump signals while boarding Air Force One at Lehigh Valley International Airport, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025, in Allentown, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
08-04-2025

President Trump's tariffs on nearly 70 countries go into effect Thursday, some as high as 40 percent. And while the White House insists the costs will be absorbed by foreign countries, most economists warn that it will lead to higher prices.

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
08-04-2025

A federal watchdog agency tasked with enforcing restrictions on political activity by government employees has launched an investigation into Jack Smith, the Justice Department special counsel who pursued two criminal cases against Donald Trump prior to his return to the White House last year. 

US Debt Clock
07-31-2025

Think of the U.S. economy as a person who looks healthy, but on the inside is carrying a serious disease that could kill them. That disease is the massive federal debt.  

Boxes of the abortion drug mifepristone (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)
07-31-2025

Forty Baptist leaders representing 22 states delivered a letter to President Trump urging his immediate action to stop the mail-order distribution of the abortion drug mifepristone, which now accounts for more than 60 percent of all U.S. abortions. 

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