As soon as Collin Davis found out his ex-partner was planning to travel to Colorado to have an abortion in late February, the Texas man retained a high-powered antiabortion attorney — who court records show immediately issued a legal threat. If the woman proceeded with the abortion, even in a state where the procedure remains legal, Davis would seek a ...
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III interviewed former White House official Hope Hicks three times during his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, mentioning her more than 180 times in his final report. House and Senate congressional committees repeatedly sought testimony from Hicks, including on the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. This post appeared ...
President Biden on Friday will give the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 people — with recipients covering nearly every corner of American life, including former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Olympic champion Katie Ledecky, Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh and, posthumously, civil rights leader Medgar Evers. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
House Republicans are seeking to unite their unruly majority around an evergreen conservative cause, devising a strict response to the wave of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled college campuses across the country in recent weeks. GOP leaders this week announced plans for new oversight investigations of elite universities where — in the words of House Republican Whip Tom Emmer (Minn.) ...
NEW YORK — Former film producer Harvey Weinstein’s rape case is expected to be retried sometime after the Labor Day holiday, a judge said Wednesday, as the frail-looking defendant made his first Manhattan court appearance in years. Weinstein’s 2020 conviction in the rape case was overturned last week by New York state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, which determined ...
There’s not much context needed for the case Arizona Republican Blake Masters made for his House candidacy in a video shared by his campaign Tuesday. The clip begins with Masters talking about how he wants to battle technology companies and address inflation should he be sent to Washington by Arizona voters. Arizona voters chose not to send him to Washington ...
There’s a regular request that readers send to The Fact Checker: Is that personal anecdote that President Biden just told true? The answer, in many cases, is there’s no evidence. Many of these tales are of relatively minor consequence — an apparent effort by the president to make a connection or show that he’s not just a politician. But throughout ...
The Arizona state Senate voted Wednesday to repeal a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions that — because of procedural hurdles — remains on track to temporarily take effect in June. The vote in the Republican-led Senate followed passage in the Arizona House last week. The ban briefly went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. ...
A half-century after high school kids in California’s Marin County started using “4:20” as code for smoking marijuana, political advisers to the 81-year-old teetotaler president, Joe Biden, began signaling that he was hip to reefer slang. The Department of Health and Human Services announced at 4:20 p.m. one day last year that it was moving forward with a plan to ...
President Biden will visit North Carolina on Thursday at a time when his campaign is investing heavily in the state and building a robust electoral operation there far earlier than it did in 2020, a reflection of Democrats’ belief that they can make a credible run at winning North Carolina despite losing it to Donald Trump four years ago. This ...