Daniel Beatty 
Former President Donald Trump is relying on a potential running mate, a former TV actress and one of his sons to stump for him in Iowa as his campaign tries to blanket the state with events ahead of the Iowa caucuses. The surrogates — featuring South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Roseanne Barr and Eric Trump … Read more
Colorado regulators recommended the state once again license funeral home workers in light of recent egregious abuses in the industry. In a 51-page report sent to the state legislature last week, the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies said, “It is clear that the public is harmed by the general lack of regulation of funeral service … Read more
Michael Cohen lost an appeal on Tuesday in his crusade to hold former President Donald Trump liable for his prison sentence on campaign finance violations and tax crimes. Cohen was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to serve three years in federal prison. He was released early in 2020 during the early days of the COVID … Read more
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has added a new hire to his presidential campaign staff: Del Bigtree, who, per The Daily Beast, has the distinction of being known as “one of the country’s leading anti-vaxxers,” which makes a lot of sense given RFK Jr.’s views on vaccines, like that “There’s no vaccine that is safe and … Read more
Constitutional law, political perspective, and the practicalities of printing came to a sudden collision in the Massachusetts State Library, when the nation’s longest serving secretary of state made it very clear that former President Donald Trump should appear on his state’s Republican primary ballot, regardless of any alleged participation in insurrection. Secretary of the Commonwealth … Read more
Dennis Edney, a lawyer who played a critical role in the release of former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, has died at 77. An obituary published in the Edmonton Journal said Edney had dementia and died Saturday. The soccer-player-turned-lawyer took on many high-profile cases throughout his career. But his Scottish accent became known across the … Read more
AP Photo/Susan Walsh Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held nothing back on Tuesday in issuing a very strongly worded condemnation of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza while urging the U.S. to cut off funding for the conflict. “Let me be clear: NO MORE U.S. funding for Netanyahu’s illegal, immoral, brutal, and grossly disproportionate war … Read more
By Marc Levy | Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. — The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack. It had never had outside help in protecting its systems from a cyberattack, either at its existing plant that dates to the 1930s or the new $18.5 million one … Read more
Washington — Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, is facing allegations of accepting expensive gifts in exchange for favorable comments about Qatar, according to a second superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday. The indictment does not charge Menendez with any additional crimes, but includes new allegations to support the charges in the first superseding indictment … Read more
A pair of gun-rights groups have filed a lawsuit against Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to block enforcement of a new state law banning so-called “ghost guns,” in the latest legal challenge of a slew of new firearms reform measures. The suit was filed in federal court Monday, when some provisions of the law took effect, … Read more
