Politics

Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ISLIP, N.Y.) — A federal grand jury has indicted Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., on 13 counts centering around three alleged schemes, according to court documents. The congressman, who was sworn into office in January, was taken into custody Wednesday morning on Long Island. Santos is charged with five counts of wire […]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Despite a consistent stream of tragedies, Texas officials aren’t doing enough to combat gun violence, according to elected officials, activists and families of people killed in mass shootings who say they are frustrated by a lack of legislative progress in the state. Although gun reform activists claimed a small victory […]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein arrived at the Capitol for the first time in three months on Wednesday, gingerly emerging out of a gray sedan with the help of aides who assisted her into a black wheelchair. The 89-year-old Democrat, welcomed back by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, said she was feeling […]

Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., has been indicted on 13 counts, including seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A day after a New York jury verdict that found Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation flooded the airwaves, it appeared on Wednesday to have caused little more than a ripple on the 2024 campaign trail. To be sure, the finding in the civil case that a former president […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday continued to pressure House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans to increase the debt limit without tying it to their spending proposal just one day after his meeting with congressional leaders that produced no progress. “Our economy would fall into recession, and […]

makenoodle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Texas’ gun laws have long come under scrutiny from gun reform groups and anti-violence activists who argue that too many loopholes put firearms in the wrong hands. “We seem to be in an endless cycle of gun violence taking the lives of our children and neighbors while our lawmakers do […]

Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security is assigning hundreds of asylum officers to the border to sort through the region’s recent surge in humanitarian needs, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday. “Short-term solutions” are needed to address the “decades-old problem” of a “broken immigration system,” Mayorkas said in explaining the surge. […]

Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., has been indicted on 13 counts, including seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will travel to New York state’s Hudson Valley region on Wednesday to talk about the federal debt limit, and it appears he will be reiterating the same message he’s been sharing for weeks. A White House official said Biden plans to hammer home […]