The dog days of summer are usually a low-key time for members of Congress to be with their family and constituents back home. But this August 4, some are running for their political lives, challenged by insurgent candidates on the left and right. Kansas, which hasn’t sent a Democrat to the Senate in nearly 90…… MORE
President Donald Trump downplayed the legacy of the late civil rights icon John Lewis in a new interview, instead repeatedly pointing to the Georgia Democrat’s decision to not attend his 2017 inauguration. “I don’t know. I really don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration,”…… MORE
A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered some disputed ballots be counted in New York’s hotly contested 12th district Democratic primary race between Rep. Carolyn Maloney and challenger Suraj Patel that remains uncalled nearly six weeks later. Judge Analisa Torres ruled late Monday that the New York State Board of Elections must “direct all local…… MORE
The Census Bureau announced Monday evening that field data collection will end a full month earlier than originally planned. it’s a sign that the Trump administration has abandoned its plan to extend the window for counting the nation’s population, which it earlier said needed to be longer because of the coronavirus pandemic. To be counted,…… MORE
President Donald Trump’s Monday afternoon appearance in the White House briefing room was replete with the now-familiar Trump fare: dishonestly upbeat assessments of the pandemic situation, a series of inaccurate claims related to mail-in ballots and exaggerations about his own accomplishments. Here are the facts. New York’s congressional primaries Trump claimed there was fraudulent voting…… MORE
Former President Barack Obama on Monday issued his first wave of 2020 down-ballot endorsements and backed more than 100 Democratic candidates with the goal of helping Democrats keep control of the House of Representatives, win a majority of the Senate and win at the state level ahead of redistricting. Obama endorsed 118 Democratic candidates from…… MORE
The House Intelligence Committee has launched an investigation into intelligence activities conducted by the Department of Homeland Security during recent protests around the country, including in Portland, Oregon. In a letter to acting Secretary Chad Wolf and Office of Intelligence and Analysis acting under secretary Horace Jen, the panel’s Democratic chairman Rep. Adam Schiff specifically…… MORE
Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday overruled an order prohibiting some private schools in the state from conducting on-campus learning for the start of the academic year, including the school attended by President Donald Trump’s youngest son. Hogan said in a statement Monday afternoon that the Montgomery County, Maryland, health officer overstepped his bounds…… MORE
Merritt Corrigan, the deputy White House liaison at the US Agency for International Development, is no longer with the agency, a spokesperson for the agency said Monday. Corrigan was first reported to have joined the agency in June, according to ProPublica, which noted at the time statements from her on social media bashing America’s “homo-empire”…… MORE
The US Navy distanced itself on Sunday from an incident organized by the privately run Navy SEAL Museum, which is not sponsored the Navy, in which a Colin Kaepernick jersey was worn by a “target” during a military working dog demonstration. In a pair of nearly two-year-old videos that were posted in January but went…… MORE