Republican senators have introduced bill to elevate former President Trump’s protection. A group of GOP senators on Thursday introduced a bill that would elevate the U.S. Secret Service’s protection of presidential nominees, days after a second apparent assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump. The bill, called the “Protect Our Presidents Act,” would mandate that
Washington — Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday he’s hopeful Nebraska will change the way it apportions its Electoral College votes in the upcoming election, given the possibility that the presidential election could come down to a single electoral vote. “I hope they will allow winner-take-all,” Graham, a South Carolina Republican, told reporters on Thursday. Graham
The anti-Israel Uncommitted National Movement declined to endorse Democratic nominee Kamala Harris for president and called on fellow Democrats to push for an Israeli arms embargo and an end to the Israel-Hamas war. “Harris’s unwillingness to shift on unconditional weapons policy or to even make a clear campaign statement in support of upholding existing U.S.
Rep. Greg Landsman (D., Ohio) has spent years pushing government ethics reforms and demanding more financial transparency from public officials. But the congressman failed to disclose his own transactions for months—a violation of the STOCK Act, a campaign finance expert told the Washington Free Beacon. As a Cincinnati city councilman, Landsman introduced reforms “aimed at
Malley was able to access sensitive but unclassified information despite State Department employees not being allowed this access when suspended. The State Department mishandled its suspension of Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, according to a report released by the department’s inspector general on Sept. 18. The department generally followed protocol, as Malley was placed
The move stems from concerns about the boxes being open to unauthorized access. Officials in a Pennsylvania county are not going to use drop boxes for the upcoming presidential election, over concerns that the boxes could be subject to tampering. The boxes are used in a number of states. Voters can drop mail-in ballots into
The University of Washington has dismissed a complaint against Robin DiAngelo, the best-selling author of White Fragility who was accused of plagiarizing minority scholars, after an internal probe found that the university’s rules allow for “the reuse of a moderate amount of language.” That conclusion came in a letter shared with the Guardian and the