Abortion Pill Ruling May Face Headwinds at the Supreme Court  —  Even justices hostile to abortion and the administrative state may think twice, legal scholars said, before embracing a Texas judge's decision.  —  WASHINGTON — The conservative legal movement has long had two key goals …

Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention  —  The Democratic convention, to run from Aug. 19-22, 2024, is expected to draw up to 50,000 visitors to Chicago.  Chicago last hosted a convention in 1996.  —  WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee selected Chicago to host …

Tennessee Democrats push to bring second expelled lawmaker back to House  —  Tennessee Democrats on Tuesday will press for the reinstatement of the second of two state representatives who were expelled for leading a rule-breaking gun policy protest on the floor of the statehouse, after the first was reinstated on Monday.

Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says  —  President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret ‘to avoid problems with the West’

Numbed America  —  Another mass shooting.  Cue the doom loop.  —  Yesterday's murder of five Americans in Louisville was the 145th mass shooting here, so far this year.  And it is only mid-April.  Last year, there were 647 mass shootings in our country.  —  It is staggering that we are not staggered by this.

Trump Files Appeal To Stop Pence From Testifying In Jan. 6 Investigation: Reports  —  The former vice president indicated he would testify in the probe after a judge agreed that the Constitution's “speech and debate clause” applied to him.  —  Donald Trump is planning to fight an order …

Pressured by Their Base on Abortion, Republicans Strain to Find a Way Forward  —  Some in the party are urging compromise, warning of dire electoral consequences for 2024, while other stances, on guns and gay rights, also risk turning off moderates.  —  Republican leaders have followed …

Meet the young Democrats waging war on MAGA from behind enemy lines  —  Catalyzing events in U.S. history have a tendency to shape generations of public officials.  In the 1920s, Prohibition and the GOP's depression economics gave rise to the New Deal Democrats.

NEWS: Gang of Eight is getting classified docs from Trump, Biden, Pence homes  —  Breaking News: The Biden administration has started giving the congressional “Gang of Eight” access to the classified documents that were recovered from the homes of former President Donald Trump …

Police: Louisville shooter legally bought gun a week ago  —  The shooter who opened fire at a Louisville bank legally bought the weapon from a local dealership a week ago, police said Tuesday.  Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said at a news conference …

Bud Light suffers bloodbath as longtime and loyal consumers revolt against transgender campaign  —  'In Bud Light's effort to be inclusive, they excluded almost everybody else,' says a St. Louis bar owner  —  Bud Light suffered a bloodbath this past weekend.

Gov. Bill Lee calls for ‘order of protection law’ to keep guns away from dangerous individuals  —  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday will sign an executive order aimed at strengthening background checks for firearm purchases, in addition to calling for lawmakers to pass an order of protection law …

Vladimir Kara-Murza's last statement to Russian court: A reckoning will come  —  Vladimir Kara-Murza delivered these remarks on Monday at the closing session of his trial in Moscow.  —  MOSCOW CITY COURT — Members of the court: I was sure, after two decades spent in Russian politics …

Another Louisiana House Democrat has switched parties to Republican  —  Democrats in the Louisiana House have lost another member, the second party switch in less than a month amid a yearslong decline in Democratic electoral fortunes.  —  State Rep. Jeremy LaCombe, a Democrat who was elected …

Pediatric trans care is often conversion therapy for gay children  —  There's clear evidence that, in many cases, pediatric gender identity services amount to conversion therapy for homosexual children.  Young, gay children, particularly effeminate boys and masculine girls …

Red Cell: Is the US getting multilateralism wrong? … The Biden administration has dumped Trump's unilateralism and returned to a multilateral approach to foreign policy.  But at a moment when the Post-WW2 system is fraying and fragmenting, Biden's 'democracies vs. autocracies ideology …

The Paid Pundits Defending Clarence Thomas And His Billionaire Benefactor  —  Right-wing pundits rushed to defend Harlan Crow's gifts to Clarence Thomas and his Nazi memorabilia collection — without disclosing their ties to the mega-donor.  —  After ProPublica reported …

54 Years Ago, a Supreme Court Justice Was Forced to Quit for Behavior Arguably Less Egregious Than Thomas's  —  There are two distressing aspects to the scandal of Justice Clarence Thomas's years of accepting luxurious vacations and private jet trips from a billionaire, as revealed last week in a damning investigation by ProPublica.

Truck carrying toxic soil from East Palestine overturns in Columbiana County  —  EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (WKBN) - A truck carrying toxic soil from the East Palestine train derailment site overturned just before 1 p.m. Monday in Columbiana County.  —  According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol …