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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Tuesday warned of primary challenges for Republican incumbents in the state Legislature amid an ongoing battle over the Texas House Speakership.  “Texans expect a Republican-led majority to elect a Speaker by a majority of Republican state representatives. Take this as a warning. If you’re making deals with Democrats […]

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to issue an emergency order reinstating a federal anti-money laundering law as a legal battle plays out in a lower court.  Passed in 2021, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) would require millions of business entities to disclose personal information about their owners by next month.  The law is

Washington, D.C, faces minefield of deadlines with serious political and economic implications as it enters 2025. But Wall Street doesn’t seem too worried. The stock market closed out 2024 with serious gains across sectors despite a slight December skid, and experts see plenty of green ahead despite high potential for political turmoil. The S&P 500

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong threatened to file a lawsuit against President-elect Trump if he moves to remove birthright citizenship from the Constitution under mounting deportation efforts. “I would be the first to sue,” Tong, a Democrat, told MSNBC in an article published on Sunday.   Trump has promised to conduct the largest deportation in the

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) did not deserve a second term in leadership and would cost the GOP its majority in the lower chamber if reelected. “Johnson is not up for this task,” Massie wrote in a Tuesday post on X, responding to criticism from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

Jimmy Carter’s legacy is one of complexity and contradictions. As a one-term president who struggled with domestic and international challenges, Carter’s post-presidential life brought him renewed admiration for his humanitarian efforts, earning him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Yet it is impossible to overlook a deeply troubling aspect of his legacy: his role as

2024 was a landmark year for prosecutions tied to politics.  It marked the first criminal conviction of a former president and the first criminal conviction of a sitting president’s child. Lawmakers in both chambers faced criminal charges. And lawyers, aides and allies to those political figures were ensnared in legal troubles of their own.  Here’s

When asked at a recent press conference whether he believes Russia’s war with Ukraine will end in 2025, Vladimir Putin gave an odd answer. “I believe in God,” he said, “and God is with us.” A self-confident leader who believes the war is going well for his side would have answered with a forceful yes

Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown, 76, died on Sunday, according to news shared by his family. Brown, who began his career at a local TV station in Seattle, was a founding host of ABC News’s “World News Now” and also anchored the outlet’s “World News Tonight Saturday” program, according to CNN, who first shared the