I've Faced the Charge of Dual Loyalty  —  I'm all for new voices in the U.S. Congress.  But lately, some of those new voices have been voicing some very old canards.  —  I'm talking about Representative Ilhan Omar, one of the newly elected Democrats who populate the 116th Congress.

Paul Manafort sentenced to 4 years in prison  —  President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced in a Virginia court to 4 years in prison for a laundry list of financial crimes, including bank fraud, tax fraud and hiding a foreign bank account.

Wilbur Ross broke law, violated Constitution in census decision, judge rules  —  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acted in “bad faith,” broke several laws and violated the constitutional underpinning of representative democracy when he added a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Senate Confirms Trump Court Pick Who Repeatedly Weakened Voting Rights  —  Every Republican voted to make Eric Murphy, 40, a lifetime federal judge.  —  WASHINGTON The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Eric Murphy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, meaning a 40-year-old lawyer …

Biden's tough talk on 1970s school desegregation plan could get new scrutiny in today's Democratic Party  —  When Joe Biden was a freshman senator in the mid-1970s, his home state of Delaware, like other hotspots across the country, was engulfed in a bitter battle over school busing …

John Kelly, Out of White House, Breaks With Trump Policies  —  The former White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, on Wednesday declined to answer questions about the existence of a memo he wrote saying that President Trump had ordered officials to give his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a security clearance in May 2018.