Politics

Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be sued under North Carolina's so-called "homewrecker" law after a federal judge ruled the state has jurisdiction over allegations she helped break up a marriage by having an affair with a woman's then-husband.Sinema acknowledged having a sexual relationship with Matthew Ammel, who was a member of her security detail while she was a senator, but said she could not be sued in North Carolina […]

President Donald Trump said Lindsay Clancy will still have to pay "the price" for the deaths of her three small children — Cora 5, Dawson 3, and Callan, 8 months — after a mistrial was ruled on Friday.During a press gaggle in the Oval Office, a reporter asked Trump if he'd been following the murder trial of Clancy, a Massachusetts mom whose defense did not deny that she strangled her […]

Election experts are warning the Supreme Court that affirming a lower court's ruling could mean that noncitizens, minors, or factitious people listed on state voter rolls could be impossible to remove.The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in RNC v. Mi Familia Vote this December and will determine whether a pair of Arizona's state laws which remove the registrations of noncitizen voters from voter rolls within 90 days […]

A well-connected political consultant in Virginia with ties to the state's Democratic Party was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after getting caught with child sexual abuse material and attempting to sexually abuse an undercover agent's purported 9-year-old son in an undercover FBI child sex abuse sting.Randon Sprinkle, 31, of Richmond, was handed the decade-long sentence on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Roderick C. Young following a federal investigation […]

In just over a week, former staffers for John Fetterman, D-Pa., are planning to go public with inside details after expressing what they called disgust at his work as a legislator."We’re a group of former campaign & Senate staffers for John Fetterman who are disgusted with what he's become. If you were troubled by yesterday's Wall Street Journal story... trust us, that's just the tip of the iceberg," the group […]

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., indicated on Thursday that he has been in contact Sen. Mitch McConnell's, R-Ky., staff, who have indicated that the aim is for the lawmaker to return to the Senate later this month."I expect that. I sure hope so," Comer said after being asked if McConnell was expected to join his Senate colleagues on Sept. 14.Comer said he had talked to McConnell staff, who have "said it’s […]

After a week of ICE raids, the Democrat-dominated City Council of Danbury, Connecticut, voted nearly unanimously to approve non-citizen legal residents serving as police officers.Under the new guidance, approved in an 18-2 vote, non-citizen legal residents and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients living in Danbury are allowed to serve as police officers in Danbury.One city council member, Democrat Joe Britton, remarked that the vote "sends a message to […]

EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump has gained several unlikely allies, including the man who led his first impeachment trial, in a major push to bring motion picture production back to California from other countries.Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who represented studio-heavy Burbank in Congress, was joined by Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in echoing support for Trump’s federal tax incentive plan to draw major film projects back to where […]

After a scathing report that called into question Sen. John Fetterman’s willingness to do the basic duties of a senator, some of his Democratic colleagues in Pennsylvania are eyeing ways to dislodge him from the upper chamber.An explosive report from The Wall Street Journal painted Fetterman as a politician more interested in appearing on Fox News to discuss Israel than meeting with paralyzed veterans from his state, and blowing off […]