Democrat Melanie Stansbury won the special election in New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District on Tuesday night, cinching a landslide victory for her party. The state congresswoman outpaced her closest rival, state senate Republican Mark Moores, by more than 32,000 votes in the solidly blue district previously occupied by Interior Secretary […]

WASHINGTON – “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” is no longer. The former president has shut down a blog he created just a month ago, opting instead to post his increasingly frequent written statements on his traditional website, a spokesman said Wednesday. Trump had used the short-lived blog as an alternative to Twitter, Facebook, […]

Recent weeks have seen corporate leaders and investors mobilize publicly and privately to oppose President Biden's proposed overhaul to the tax code. Eliminating tax loopholes for major multinational corporations would actually put corporations that operate in the United States, and American workers, in a more competitive position compared to their […]

WASHINGTON — A judge has thrown out a lawsuit from a former Marine who was jailed in Iran for more than four years and then denied a multimillion-dollar payout from a special U.S. government victims’ fund after an FBI espionage investigation into his travels. Judge Richard Hertling of the Court […]

‘The Five’ react to Biden’s spending proposal to close race wealth gap The President unveils plan to combat racial injustice; ‘The Five’ weighs in President Biden laid blame Tuesday on two Democratic senators for Congress’ failure to pass voting rights legislation, apparently a reference to Sens. Joe Manchin of West […]

Seattle’s $700M ‘woke’ waterfront may backfire, critics warn The agreement with the city calls for 35% of all park programs to be geared toward ‘underserved communities’ For 66 years, Seattle’s downtown was separated from its waterfront by a hulking, double-decker viaduct. When it was blown up in 2019 over earthquake-safety […]

The Federal Election Commission will let former President Donald Trump avoid any punishment for directing hush money payments to his alleged ex-mistress Karen McDougal. But the publisher of The National Enquirer agreed to pay more than $187,500 for its role in the scandal. The FEC likewise failed recently to approve […]

The military regime that recently seized power in Myanmar has stonewalled virtually all efforts to reach Danny Fenster, a U.S. journalist who has been detained there without explanation for more than a week. Fenster's relatives have been communicating with U.S. officials, speaking to media outlets and, most recently, launching a […]