US Politics

Biden SCRAPS plan to ban menthol cigarettes after political pressure that it would turn off black voters ahead of the 2024 election

The White House is scrapping a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes to avoid angering black voters months before the 2024 election. After dragging the process out for months, the administration is expected to announce the reversal on Friday, sources disclosed to the Wall

April 26, 2024

Biden gives clemency and pardons to 16 non-violent drug offenders

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor Published: 11:44 EDT, 24 April 2024 | Updated: 11:44 EDT, 24 April 2024 Advertisement Jason Hernandez used to sell dime bags of pot out of a Texas convenience store. Then he got a sentence of

April 24, 2024

Biden gives clemency and pardons to 16 non-violent drug offenders including cocaine dealers because they are ‘deserving of forgiveness’

11 got pardons and 5 had their sentences commuted White House called them ‘deserving individuals who were convicted of non-violent drug offenses’ By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor Published: 10:13 EDT, 24 April 2024 | Updated: 10:52 EDT, 24 April 2024

April 24, 2024

Pro-life activist Mark Houck who kicked a masturbation habit and was cleared of assaulting a Planned Parenthood worker wants REVENGE by being elected to Congress

A pro-life activist who adamantly opposes pornography and once had his home raided by the FBI is hoping to make it to Congress as battleground state Pennsylvania kicks off its primary election Tuesday. Mark Houck, founder of Catholic ministry The King’s Men, is campaigning on

April 23, 2024

Inside court account reveals how Trump reacted to the lead prosecutor

The 12 members of the jury and their six alternates sat rapt with attention. For 45 minutes they listened to the lead prosecutor lay out the case against former President Donald Trump . Matthew Colangelo delivered all the drama of a B-movie

April 22, 2024

Trump shook his head in defiance while the jury locked eyes on the prosecutor: An inside court account of how the ex-president listened helplessly as attorneys detailed the salacious and lurid claims against him

The 12 members of the jury and their six alternates sat rapt with attention. For 45 minutes they listened to the lead prosecutor lay out the case against former President Donald Trump. Matthew Colangelo delivered all the drama of a B-movie plot

April 22, 2024

The 12 jurors picked in Trump’s hush money trial, including a woman who called him ‘selfish’

Twelve Manhattan residents have been picked to decide the fate of Donald Trump in his historic hush money trial. Seven men and five women – including a corporate lawyer and a woman who called the ex-president ‘selfish’ – will ultimately determine if

April 22, 2024

Stony-faced Trump, with his eyes narrow, leans back in his chair as his lawyers battle over evidence that could be VERY embarrassing: How the ex-president responded to explosive first morning of the hush-money trial

The Trump campaign arrived in New York Supreme Criminal Court on Monday morning. Donald Trump delivered remarks in the court hallway, while one his most loyal hucksters worked the crowd outside and c-list talking heads took their seats in an overflow room

April 15, 2024

Report: Biden’s $1.5M in legal fees were covered by campaign donations

By Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter In Washington D.C. Published: 10:01 EDT, 12 April 2024 | Updated: 10:01 EDT, 12 April 2024 Advertisement President Joe Biden used campaign donations to pay his legal bills related to the investigation of his handling

April 12, 2024

Donald Trump launches yet another appeal to delay the start of Monday’s hush money trial and claims ‘discredited’ New York case is ‘election interference’

Trump is due in court Monday when jury selection starts for his hush money trial His lawyers filed an appeal Wednesday, in the latest effort to postpone the start Trump said the case had been discredited. ‘It’s a horrible thing,’ he said

April 10, 2024

Trump launches yet another effort to delay start of hush money trial

By Rob Crilly, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com In Washington, D.C. Published: 14:05 EDT, 10 April 2024 | Updated: 14:05 EDT, 10 April 2024 Advertisement Lawyers for Donald Trump launched a last-ditch effort Wednesday to delay the start of his hush

April 10, 2024

Pete Buttigieg trolled for dismissing rising DC violent crime

By Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com In Washington, Dc Published: 14:18 EDT, 9 April 2024 | Updated: 14:22 EDT, 9 April 2024 Advertisement Social media erupted with criticism after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claimed he felt safe enough in his

April 9, 2024

Ron DeSantis makes it a CRIME for drug users to expose first responders to fentanyl and blames Biden’s ‘unwillingness to secure the border’ as the reason cops are facing more danger

By Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com In Washington, Dc Published: 15:25 EDT, 8 April 2024 | Updated: 15:25 EDT, 8 April 2024 Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday that makes it a crime in Florida for someone to

April 8, 2024

Fetterman insists he is ‘NOT woke’ and squatters have ‘no rights’: Pennsylvania Democrat tears into soft-on-crime policies

‘Squatters have no rights,’ the liberal lawmaker told the New York Post. ‘How can you even pretend that this is anything other than you’re just breaking the law?’ ‘It’s wild, that if you go away on a long trip, for 30 days,

April 7, 2024

Candidate and daughter of GOP legend smashes Senate fundraising record

By Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter Published: 15:18 EDT, 5 April 2024 | Updated: 15:19 EDT, 5 April 2024 Advertisement Senate hopeful Nella Domenici shattered a Republican Senate fundraising record in New Mexico with her $1.25 million cash haul in the

April 5, 2024

Female Republican candidate and daughter of GOP legend smashes fundraising record in Republican New Mexico Senate race, four years after Biden carried state by 10 POINTS

Nella Domenici’s campaign raised $1.25 million in the first quarter of the year She is the daughter of late Republican New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici Domenici is looking to unseat Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich Cook Political Report rates the New Mexico Senate

April 5, 2024

Trump claims global crime rates are down because violent offenders head to the U.S. when they leave prison and says he wants to meet family of Ruby Garcia, 25, after she was ‘murdered’ by an illegal migrant

Trump is visiting Grand Rapids, MI on Tuesday for an event on the border Ex-president says he wants to talk to family of killed Michigan woman Trump called immigration the No. 1 issue in the 2024 election By Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S.

April 1, 2024

How pricey D.C. neighborhood less than a mile from the Capitol has turned into a crime-ridden ‘war zone’

At just a 10-minute walk from Capitol Hill, Navy Yard was once considered a convenient and even desirable place for members of Congress and their staff to live. The Washington D.C. neighborhood is dotted with shiny new apartment buildings boasting some of

March 31, 2024

A whopping 93 percent of Trump supporters say they would still vote for the former president even if he is convicted of a crime

Trump was told last week that his New York fraud trial will start on April 15 Our poll found almost all his supporters say conviction will not change their vote ‘It could also make me more popular,’ said the former president Monday

March 29, 2024

Biden calls New York Mayor Eric Adams to offer condolences for slain cop Jonathan Diller: White House won’t say if president spoke to grieving family as Trump heads to wake of officer shot dead in line of duty

By Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter Published: 12:40 EDT, 28 March 2024 | Updated: 15:24 EDT, 28 March 2024 President Joe Biden called New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday to give his condolences about the killing of NYC cop

March 29, 2024