Sep 21 House passes electoral law overhaul in response to Jan. 6 By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The House has passed legislation to overhaul the rules for certifying the results of a presidential election as lawmakers accelerate their response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and Donald Trump's failed attempt to remain in power. Continue reading
Sep 21 Ohio GOP House candidate misrepresented Air Force military service By Brian Slodysko, James Laporta, Associated Press Republican J.R. Majewski has campaigned in Ohio by presenting himself as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Military records and an Air Force accounting of his service tell a different story. Continue reading
Sep 21 Read the full lawsuit against Trump by New York’s attorney general, alleging business fraud By Associated Press New York’s attorney general sued former President Donald Trump and his company on Wednesday, alleging business fraud involving some of their most prized assets, including properties in Manhattan, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Continue reading
Sep 21 WATCH: Trump and his company sued for business fraud by New York attorney general By Associated Press New York’s attorney general sued Trump and his company for fraud on Wednesday, alleging they padded his net worth by billions of dollars by lying about the value of prized assets including golf courses, hotels and his homes at Trump… Continue reading
Sep 20 Watch 4:29 News Wrap: New York City lifting vaccine mandate for private sector workers In our news wrap Tuesday, New York City is lifting its vaccine mandate for private sector workers as of November 1, federal authorities in Minnesota charged 47 people in a fraud scheme taking advantage of pandemic relief funds and the… Continue watching
Sep 20 Trump legal team unwilling to answer judge’s declassification questions By Eric Tucker, Mike Sisak, Associated Press Lawyers for Trump and for the Justice Department are to appear in federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday before a veteran judge named last week as special master to review the roughly 11,000 documents — including about 100 marked as… Continue reading
Sep 20 WATCH: House Rules Committee meets to debate Presidential Electoral Reform Act By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The vote to overhaul the Electoral Count Act, expected Wednesday, comes as a bipartisan group of senators is moving forward with a similar bill. Lawmakers in both parties have said they want to change the arcane law before it is… Continue reading
Sep 20 Video shows ‘unauthorized access’ to Georgia election equipment By Kate Brumback, Associated Press A court filing says a Republican Party official in Georgia told a computer forensics team to copy components of the voting system at a rural elections office two months after the 2020 election and spent nearly all day there, contradicting… Continue reading
Sep 19 Independents once ready to vote for Republicans wavering ahead of midterm elections By Thomas Beaumont, Associated Press Some independent voters who began 2022 looking to Republicans for answers have drifted back to moving toward Democrats. Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch 3:08 News Wrap: DOJ appeals for access to classified documents recovered from Trump In our news wrap Saturday, the Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to restore its access to the classified materials found at Mar-a-Lago while an independent arbiter conducts his review, Puerto Rico is under a hurricane warning as Tropical… Continue watching