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A new investigation by Reuters details how the Trump administration is seeking to gain federal control over elections in at least eight states, employing investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID records for the campaign.“What we’re seeing is the Trump administration, in some ways, is seeking to relitigate the 2020 election, and they’re also seeking to impose federal authority over the administration of elections,” says investigative journalist Ned Parker.Parker also discusses the Trump administration’s campaign of retribution against the president’s perceived enemies, for which he and his colleagues at Reuters just won a Pulitzer Prize for National Repor

Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the idea of being a swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court during an appearance in Arkansas on Saturday, despite cases where she’s split from the court’s conservative majority.Barrett, who President Donald Trump nominated to the court in 2020, spoke for an hour about her work during an event at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville.Conservatives hold a 6-3 majority on the court, but Barrett has sided with the liberal justices on several key cases over the years. But Barrett said she doesn’t view herself as a swing vote.“I don’t like that label because it makes me sound sort of flighty,” she said dur

It’s been a strange year for presidential-papal relations as the Trump administration has spent the past several months antagonizing the Pope. Now in the latest installment of this unholy saga, a prominent MAGA pastor has declared that Trump has a “better understanding” of the Bible than the head of the Catholic Church. Appearing on Fox News on Saturday, firebrand Pastor Robert Jeffress took issue with the Pontiff. While he did call the Pope a “good man” who is “sincere in his faith,” he went on to say that he is “sincerely wrong when it comes to Iran.” “God created the chur

On Thursday, a seemingly innocuous social media post by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney touched off an unexpected MAGA meltdown. “Welcome back to Canada, President [Barack Obama]” Carney tweeted along with a video showing the former president’s arrival in Toronto. While Obama was visiting Canada to deliver a keynote speech to a think tank, the followers of President Donald Trump decided there was something more nefarious going on, accusing him of breaking federal laws.“Why is Barack Hussein Obama meeting with world leaders while President Trump is in office?” posted far-right influencer and prominent Trump ally Laura Loomer. “This is a coup.”She and others, like conservative influencer Nick Sortor, proceeded to suggest that Obama should face consequences

Major cases at the Department of Justice are "hobbled by” turmoil as “more than a half-dozen prosecutors have been demoted or pushed out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia,” the Washington Post reported Saturday.The “turmoil” comes amid the fallout from the DOJ’s revamped effort to prosecute former FBI director James Comey. A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina last month

Along the banks of the Washington Channel in the nation’s capital sits the East Potomac Park, a popular green space offering 330 acres of open fields, picnic grounds, tennis courts, and lanes for running and cycling. At over 100 years old, the park is a celebrated “part of the culture in D.C.” But according to renovation plans obtained by the Washington Post, President Donald Trump wants to radically change the park, installing an “exclusive” golf course at the expense of public access. “Based on the renderings being circulated to potential donors,” reports the Post, “the public gol

Puck reports Ben Shapiro’s MAGA entertainment site Daily Wire, “with its sweeping layoffs and a steep drop-off in audience, has actually been a long time coming.”“Media analysts have noted a drastic decline in The Daily Wire’s audience, including the loss of 80,000 YouTube subscribers so far this year,” reports Puck media writer Dylan Byers. “Kyle Tharp, a researcher who tracks political influence online, said Ben’s hemorrhaging audience represented ‘the steepest decline of any major political channel in 2026.’ (‘He’s lost the juice,’ Kyle told me.) Meanwhile, The Daily Wire recently enacte

Chief Justice John Roberts has long been fond of asserting the apolitical nature of the Supreme Court. Way back in 2009, when he was just four years into his tenure, he declared, “The most important thing for the public to understand is that we’re not a political branch of government.” Nearly two decades later, he said something similar, on Wednesday telling a conference of legal experts, “We’re not part of the political process,” although he did admit that the public doesn’t agree with that assertion. According to Salon’s David Daley, his claims raise two key points. Fi

Associate Deputy Secretary Karen Budd-Falen, a Trump appointee to the Interior Department, has confessed on video to her involvement in policy matters that could directly benefit her family business. This, say ethics watchdogs, may violate federal law. Speaking before the Congressional Western Caucus event in December, reports the Washington Post, Budd-Falen noted that grazing policy is part of her job, and “the thing that probably was the closest to my heart was grazing r

CNN Senior writer Zachary Wolf says President Donald Trump keeps teasing that a deal to end the war with Iran is nearly over, but it never is — and voters are getting angry.“It’s one of a series of Iran talking points he has been repeating for months,” said Wolf. “The war itself has changed — evolving from one of shock and awe to a monthlong ceasefire in which each side has imposed a costly blockade on the other. But Trump’s talking points have stayed the same.’Like a skipping record, Wolf said Trump keeps repeating that the U.S. is in charge, Iran’s military is devastated and things are going to be over soon. However, these aren’t answers. They’re not even correct.This, sai