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In unprecedented move, Kentucky House votes to impeach Fayette Circuit Judge Goodman
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky House of Representatives on Friday voted to impeach a Fayette County judge after a committee issued articles of impeachment against her earlier this week.
In a 73-to-14 vote Friday, the House approved the articles of impeachment against Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman, sending the matter to the Senate ...Read more
Trump risks dragging out Iran war with debate over seizing Kharg Island
U.S. officials said the White House is sending more than 2,000 additional Marines to the Middle East as it weighs a plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub, a ground operation that would carry huge risks for President Donald Trump.
At the same time, Trump floated the idea late Friday that the war could end quickly — even as he had ...Read more
Chicago Transit Authority sues feds over frozen Red Line Extension money
The Chicago Transit Authority filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Friday, alleging the feds violated the U.S. Constitution when they froze about $2 billion in federal grant money for the agency’s long-awaited Red Line Extension project.
The CTA says that unless federal Judge Thomas M. Durkin steps in by March 27, it will have to ...Read more
Analysis: A cacophony of presidential words, but few policy changes from Trump
WASHINGTON — A tidal wave of presidential words does not policy make.
That was the lesson this past week at the White House, the Capitol and on board Air Force Once, where President Donald Trump got out 35,615 words publicly between Sunday and Thursday, according to CQ Roll Call’s Factba.se. His remarks generated dramatic headlines, ...Read more
Supreme Court to hear arguments over meaning of 'Election Day'
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over what the phrase “Election Day” means and whether states can accept ballots in federal elections that arrive after that date.
Republicans challenged a Mississippi state law, passed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, that allows officials to count ballots that arrive up to five ...Read more
Trump risks dragging out Iran war with debate over seizing Kharg Island
U.S. officials said the White House is sending more than 2,000 additional Marines to the Middle East as it weighs a plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub, a ground operation that would carry huge risks for President Donald Trump.
“I don’t want to do a ceasefire,” Trump said Friday at the White House.
Any effort to seize and ...Read more
A new poll shows Josh Shapiro's favorability compared to other potential 2028 Democratic contenders for president
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has the highest net favorability among national Democrats in a new national Emerson poll, but that’s partly because more voters don’t have an opinion about him compared to most of his potential 2028 rivals.
Shapiro has been on a publicity tour for his new book, "Where We Keep the Light," and building his donor...Read more
Critics call it the 'show your papers' bill. Republicans say it will restore trust in elections
President Donald Trump is pushing for the passage of a law that would require voter ID and make a suite of other changes to the nation’s voting systems that advocates have warned would disenfranchise millions of Americans.
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE America Act, passed the U.S. House in February in an effort to require ...Read more
In reversal, Trump re-endorses Colorado Rep. Jeff Hurd, says he will give primary challenger a job
DENVER — For the second time in a month, President Donald Trump is changing horses in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.
In a social media post Friday, Trump announced that he was re-endorsing U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd to hold the Western Slope seat he won two years ago. Trump also said he was going to hire Hurd’s conservative primary ...Read more
Overconfidence is how wars are lost − lessons from Vietnam, Afghanistan and Ukraine for the war in Iran were ignored
Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield. They are lost in leaders’ minds − when leaders misread what they and their adversaries can do, when their confidence substitutes for comprehension, and when the last war is mistaken for the next one.
The Trump administration’s miscalculation of Iran is not an anomaly. It is the ...Read more
In unprecedented move, Kentucky House votes to impeach Fayette Circuit Judge Goodman
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky House of Representatives on Friday voted to impeach a Fayette County judge after a committee issued articles of impeachment against her earlier this week.
In a 73-14 vote Friday, the House approved the articles of impeachment against Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman, sending the matter to the Senate for a...Read more
Becoming a target hits home for Rep. Jared Moskowitz
WASHINGTON — Not far from Rep. Jared Moskowitz’s home, police officers found body armor, smoke grenades and firearms inside the house of a convicted felon, along with a handwritten list of “targets” that included the name of the Florida Democrat.
The Justice Department said it was evidence of a would-be active shooter who was “ready ...Read more
Who are Iran’s new leaders? A look at 6 the US placed a bounty on – 2 of whom are already dead
The Trump administration announced a US$10 million reward on March 15, 2026, for information leading to the capture of several senior Iranian figures.
While two of these leaders have since been killed by Israeli strikes, they are included here to provide a more complete picture of Iran’s powerful elite – people deeply embedded in ...Read more
St. Paul to be 'national flagship' for anti-Trump rallies across US
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Another round of “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump is scheduled for Saturday, March 28, with organizers describing a rally at the Minnesota Capitol as a “national flagship” for more than 3,000 events across the U.S.
At noon that day, they plan to march from three separate locations in St. Paul and ...Read more
Kentucky court denies Fayette judge's request to stop impeachment proceedings
A Kentucky judge has declined for a second time to intervene in impeachment proceedings of a Fayette County judge.
Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd denied a request for a temporary injunction filed by Fayette Circuit Court Judge Julie Muth Goodman, to stop ongoing impeachment proceedings in the state General Assembly from taking place.
...Read more
Appropriators meet as deadline set for Homeland Security deal
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune set a deadline of next week for resolving the Homeland Security Department funding standoff, as Senate appropriators of both parties held a face-to-face meeting Thursday with White House “border czar” Tom Homan.
Thune, a South Dakota Republican, said the meeting — the first of its kind ...Read more
HHS investigates Maryland for abortion discrimination under conscience law
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is investigating Maryland for potential violations of a federal abortion discrimination law, the department said Thursday.
The investigation will examine whether the state violated the Weldon Amendment, a federal conscience law that prohibits states or local governments that ...Read more
Border czar Tom Homan meets Democrats in hopes of ending DHS shutdown
Border czar Tom Homan met Thursday with Democratic senators in hopes of ending the partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown that has stretched on for a month and is badly snarling air travel.
President Donald Trump’s trusted aide sat down for an hour with a handful of moderate lawmakers to exchange potential proposals for reforms to ...Read more
Candidate with Nazi salute in name removed from ballot
A Republican candidate who filed for U.S. representative in Indiana’s 1st District with the Nazi salute in his ballot name was removed from the ballot late last month when he didn’t show up to a hearing challenging his candidacy.
Richard Benedict Mayers, who has a history of failed campaigns on a white supremacist platform, filed as a ...Read more
Information is a battlefield: 4 questions you can ask to judge the reliability of news reports and social posts about the US-Iran war
Historically, when the U.S. has undertaken military action against foreign governments, journalists have relied heavily on government sources and rallied “’round the flag,” often uncritically sharing official narratives about U.S involvement. This has been evident during periods of U.S. military engagements in Vietnam, Iraq and ...Read more
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