A rural Colorado county courthouse beefed up security Friday after threats were made against staff and a judge who sentenced former county clerk Tina Peters to nearly nine years behind bars and admonished her for her role in a data breach scheme catalyzed by the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. read more
Former President Donald Trump's domestic policy agenda would amount to a tax increase on the vast majority of American households, according to a new analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, thanks largely to his proposed tariffs on imported goods. read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Hurricane Helene's devastation doesn't require immediate action by Congress to boost federal disaster relief funding because it'll take time to assess the damage. read more
"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough's analysis of Donald Trump's weekend speech turned downright dark on Monday. Scarborough said the words of Trump, running mate JD Vance and Trump family members in Butler, Pennsylvania, signaled that the "increasingly desperate" Republican nominee was "preparing for civil war." read more
Steve Benen: As the evidence leaves little doubt that the U.S. economy is on strong footing, Republicans are telling voters not to believe their lying eyes. read more
Donald Trump called into a radio show and told several of his common lies about immigrants living the US but he did manage to make one new claim. Trump claimed that there are "a lot of bad genes" among migrants living in America. read more
Donald Trump is holding a rally in Juneau, Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon, where he demanded that 60 Minutes give him an "apology." Trump backed out of the interview on Tuesday ... read more
A new ad from the Harris-Walz campaign hits Donald Trump on the latest revelations in the Jack Smith election interference case. read more
The decision leaves intact a ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Texas on the question of whether a federal law concerning emergency room care in some cases trumps state abortion restrictions. read more
Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane Monday on a path toward Florida population centers including Tampa and Orlando, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for potential mass evacuations less than two weeks after a catastrophic Hurricane Helene swamped the coastline. Milton had maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 kph) over the southern Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane center said. read more
From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans' political leanings and more. read more
Many posts ignore the fact that the plan would only impact those whose net worth is more than $100 million, or less than 1% of taxpayers, and falsely suggest that all homeowners should fear a new massive tax bill. One TikTok user, for example, claimed that people will "lose their homes" and that "the IRS will bankrupt them." read more
Donald Trump's embrace of the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, hit another speedbump on Saturday as Musk's mom was accused of encouraging her followers to commit voter fraud. read more
New York Times: "A 2022 study by a pair of University of Montana scholars found that Mr. Trump's speech complexity was significantly lower than that of the average president over American history ... " "The Times analysis found that Mr. Trump speaks at a fourth-grade level, lower than rivals like Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who speaks at an eighth-grade level, which is roughly average for modern presidents." read more
The meeting - which took place three years after Russian forces invaded the Crimean peninsula - was "an opening" for Putin to begin exploiting Trump's "escalating political grudge" against Ukraine in a bid to weaken US support for the country. "Putin was basically telling [Trump] that you can't trust Ukraine, and don't give them anything." read more
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