A Republican challenger alleges their opponent accepted campaign contributions and then used her influence to steer a $554,000 grant in the donor’s direction. Oregon Republican primary candidate Monique DeSpain has requested the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, Natalie Wight, expand her office’s current investigation into the now-defunct marijuana producer La Mota and a
Fulton County DA Fani Willis faces 22 articles of impeachment amid allegations of misconduct in the Georgia election interference case. A Georgia lawmaker filed a resolution on Friday to impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, accusing her of various acts of “malfeasance, tyrannical partiality, and oppression.” State Rep. Charlice Byrd, a Republican, said in
This report provides a blueprint for making it easy to vote and hard to cheat in all 50 states, says head of Honest Elections Project. In a comprehensive analysis, a non-partisan organization that monitors election integrity has laid out more than a dozen “critical reforms” that they assert U.S. states must implement before the 2024
Donald Trump was ordered by a federal jury on Friday to pay $83.3 million in damages to E. Jean Carroll, who accused the former U.S. president of destroying her reputation as a trustworthy journalist by denying he raped her nearly three decades ago. The seven-man, two-woman jury needed less than three hours to reach the
Seattle on Wednesday became the latest city to give out millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter protesters who alleged they were injured by police in the summer of 2020. The city agreed to pay $10 million after a more than three-year-long legal battle with a group of over 50 plaintiffs who said police mistreated
Legal counsel for six Colorado voters whose petition ended with a disqualification of former President Donald Trump as a candidate in the Colorado Supreme Court are now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm that ruling. “There is no basis to disrupt the state court’s interpretation of state law, which enforced rather than “circumvent[ed]” the
President Joe Biden on Friday froze the consideration of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals, a move that industry leaders called a “win for Russia.” The action freezes approvals of pending permits for LNG export terminals until the Department of Energy updates its process for review of the authorizations’ economic and environmental impacts. The