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CNN  —  Former President Donald Trump said in a social media post he’s been informed by special counsel Jack Smith that he is a target of the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a sign he may soon be charged by the special counsel. “Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s

CNN  —  West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday defended his flirtation with a third-party presidential campaign, telling voters at a No Labels forum at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire that he had no plans to play “spoiler” in the 2024 election. “I’ve never been in any race I’ve ever spoiled. I’ve been in

CNN  —  Abortions in Iowa will for now remain legal up to 22 weeks into a pregnancy after a judge on Monday temporarily blocked the state’s newly signed law that would ban the procedure as early as six weeks. The suit was filed last week by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the Emma Goldman Clinic

Vanity Fair has published a profile on Rep. Byron Donalds, and one anecdote in particular gives us a revealing look at the role the Floridian — and one of the few Black Republicans in Congress — plays for his conservative colleagues.For the profile, reporter Pablo Manríquez interviewed Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who in January nominated

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s taste for autocracy is well known. But a new report suggests that if he returned to the White House, his agenda to consolidate power would be far more aggressive and well organized than the last time around — thanks in part to even wider buy-in from the remains of the

It’s not every day you see a former employee condemn the media company they helped build as a malevolent force in American public life. But for Fox News, it sometimes feels that frequent. A slew of Fox veterans — out of genuine remorse, a desire to rehabilitate their reputations, or a combination of both —

The lesson should be clear as day at this point: You don’t defeat Donald Trump by feeding his ego, or by lining the pockets of grifters associated with the former president. Unfortunately for Trump’s rivals in the GOP, that ship has sailed. This seemed obvious in the dispatches and video from the Turning Point Action Conference

When Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans late last year to re-establish the Florida State Guard, which was disbanded in 1947, it was tough to blame his critics for raising concerns about a “private army” that would act at the Florida governor’s discretion. The far-right Republican has, after all, created a wildly unnecessary elections police force

For months, much of the political world overlooked Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade on military promotions, but as the Alabama Republican’s tantrum starts to actually affect the armed forces, the senator’s radical tactics have gone from the background to the foreground.As we discussed last week, the pressure campaign to convince Tuberville to be more responsible includes

Ordinarily, once a civil case runs its course in court, the process ends and those involved move on. But in the wake of the 2020 election cycle, plenty of Republican conspiracy theorists lost plenty of lawsuits — and as it turns out, the courtroom defeats weren’t the end of their troubles.At the heart of the