CBS News poll: Democrats start out ahead in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin Senate races

As Democrats play defense in U.S. Senate races this year, two battleground-state incumbents start out ahead in their reelection campaigns. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania and Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin are currently leading their lesser-known Republican challengers by seven points. Both Casey and Baldwin enjoyed large margins of victory in 2018, but their reelection bids look

Dershowitz Says Bragg’s Case Against Trump Will Fail Because It’s Based on Fake Crimes

‘It’s a scandal, and it’s a destruction of America’s rule of law,’ retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said. Retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said Sunday that he believes Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump could fail because prosecutors have charged the former president with fake crimes. “There is

Louisiana Governor Takes Aim at Biden’s New Title IX Rules: ‘We Do Not Intend to Comply’

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers announced Monday they will not comply with new Title IX rules recently imposed by the Biden administration, which extend the protections meant for female athletes to those who identify as transgender. “We do not intend to comply,” he said. Speaking at a press conference, Mr. Landry … Original

Adeel Mangi Downplayed His Involvement With Anti-Israel Think Tank, Emails Show

During his confirmation hearing, embattled Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi told senators that he left the board of an anti-Israel think tank because it was not sufficiently “productive.” But in his resignation email, Mangi said he was leaving the board because he had too many other commitments, praised the think tank’s “excellent work,” and pledged

Fact Check: Columbia Professor Says Student Protesters Have Not Called for Violence Against Civilians

‘They have not shouted out slogans … in support of Hamas or the wanton destruction of civilian lives,’ says Bruce Robbins Free Beacon Fact Check Columbia University humanities professor Bruce Robbins said student protesters at the school have not called for the “destruction of civilian lives”—just two days after a video surfaced showing a student

Biden Civil Rights Chief To Speak at Columbia Law Commencement Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal

Kristen Clarke at center of her own controversy in which she invited author of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory book to speak at Harvard Kristen Clarke (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for National Urban League) The Biden administration’s civil rights chief Kristen Clarke is slated to give the commencement address at Columbia Law School, amid a scandal over surging