[content id=”79272″] A U.S. federal judge in Washington imposed a partial gag order Monday on former President Donald Trump, restricting what he can say about his impending trial on charges that he illegally tried to overturn his 2020 reelection loss. Judge Tanya Chutkan barred Trump, the leading Republican presidential contender for 2024, from attacking prosecutors, […]
“Let’s be clear. This was directly connected to the dehumanizing of Palestinians that has been allowed over the last week by our media, by our elected officials,” said one Illinois state lawmaker. U.S. civil rights defenders on Monday condemned the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy in Illinois, an alleged hate crime that […]
[content id=”79272″] “I will vote for Leader Jeffries and continue my work building bridges between marginalized communities to dismantle the systems of white supremacy enabling violence against our communities,” said Rep. Summer Lee. Louisiana GOP Congressman Steve Scalise—infamously accused of once calling himself “David Duke without the baggage,” referring to a former Ku Klux Klan […]
[content id=”79272″] Republicans in the House of Representatives Wednesday nominated Steve Scalise for speaker, a role formerly held by Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted last week. The nomination was made in a secret ballot behind closed doors where Republicans ultimately chose Scalise over House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan. The 58-year-old Scalise won the backing […]