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The Supreme Court issued a ruling built on sand to keep former President Donald Trump on the ballot, not out of any sort of constitutional logic or principles but because of "fear," wrote conservative lawyer George Conway in a scathing analysis for The Atlantic.

Friday will mark the end of Ronna Romney McDaniel's time as chair of the Republican National Committee, and former President Donald Trump is recommending North Carolina GOP chari Michael Whatley as her replacement — with the former president’s daugher-in-law Lara Trump as co-chair.

Allan Lichtman is among the 25 historians who submitted an amicus brief in Trump v. Anderson and urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a Colorado Supreme Court decision barring Donald Trump from the state's election ballot under Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment.

Former FBI assistant director Andrew McCabe thinks Donald Trump's lawyers are intentionally trying to confuse Judge Aileen Cannon in his classified documents case.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) announced Tuesday that she is abandoning her hopes for reelection and will step down at the end of the year.

A man with "serious mental and psychiatric needs" died from hypothermia in January of last year after he was taken to an Alabama jail and placed in a concrete drunk tank known as "the freezer." His death was later ruled a homicide, records show.

Driven by sustained climate-fueled oceanic heating, the planet is on the brink of another mass coral bleaching event that marine biologists warn could kill large swaths of tropical reefs including significant areas of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Catoosa County Superior Court Judge Don Thompson of Georgia ruled that county GOP officials cannot implement a rule allowing them to purge unwanted Republicans from the ballot.

The impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is likely to begin in the U.S. Senate this week. It is expected to be quickly tabled or dismissed by Democrats, who hold the majority and have criticized House Republicans for bringing the case to trial despite a lack of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that the Constitution requires to necessitate impeachment.

A day after Trump supporters violently stormed the United States Capitol and chanted for the hanging of then-Vice President Mike Pence, former Trump lawyer Ken Chesebro had decided whom to blame for the fiasco.

Liberty University will be fined a record $14 million for violating federal laws designed to boost safety on campus.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg appeared to frustrate CNBC host Joe Kernen when talking about the southern border and reminding viewers that congressional Republicans bowed to Donald Trump's call to kill a bipartisan border bill.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is getting questions from the Federal Election Commission again — this time about a new political action committee she created after paying a fine for election law violations and closing down another PAC.

Widespread outages hitting Facebook, Instagram and Threads Tuesday blocked users from logging into their accounts — and caused a flood of conspiracy theories that Meta was being used to weaken Donald Trump on Super Tuesday.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg fired back at Donald Trump's call to have former attorney Michael Cohen barred from his upcoming hush money trial.

As Donald Trump heads into "Super Tuesday" — and is expected to wipe the floor with his opponent — his former communications director sees warning signs that he should be very concerned about.

A right-wing Republican congressional candidate is calling to restrict voting just to English speakers.

Former Donald Trump White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews on Tuesday expressed shock that her ex-boss was not only the frontrunner to be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, but is also currently leading President Joe Biden in the polls.

Donald Trump has pledged not to support giving federal funds to schools that implemented vaccine or mask mandates — but people are noticing that it would be schools in red states that would be hit hardest by the proposed policy.

Put the word “evolution” into Google images and the results are largely variations on one theme: Ralph Zallinger’s illustration, March of Progress. Running left to right, we see a chimp-like knuckle walker gradually becoming taller and standing erect.

In 2011, pop music scholar Simon Reynolds was already observing pop culture’s fascination with its own past, noting that “we live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration.”

Federal prosecutors inadvertently turned over classified information to avowed white supremacist Jordan Duncan, who is preparing for trial on charges related to an alleged plot to attack the power grid and launch a race war, his lawyer tells Raw Story.

Hungary's new president, Tamás Sulyok, signed a law ratifying Swedish membership of NATO on Tuesday. The signing of the bill passed by the Hungarian parliament on February 26 concludes the ratification process for Sweden, as Hungary was the last country to ratify. NATO rules require all NATO members to formally notify the United States government that they've ratified Sweden's accession protocols. The secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, will then formally invite Sweden to join the alliance. Читать дальше...

Police are investigating evidence of a possible arson attack at the Tesla factory near Berlin following a regional power outage that paralysed the carmaker's operations. "We have received knowledge of a letter of confession, which we are currently examining," said a police spokeswoman on Tuesday. Its authenticity is being checked. In an email, the left-wing extremist Vulkangruppe (Volcano group) accuses Tesla of "extreme exploitation conditions" and calls for the "complete destruction of the Gigafactory."... Читать дальше...

Reporters on the ground in Super Tuesday states questioned voters about the reasoning behind their decisions in the primary and general elections — and some of their answers were eye-opening.