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Facing intense internal pressure, DNC releases pos-telection autopsy that criticizes Kamala Harris
NEW YORK | Kamala Harris “wrote off rural America” during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Donald Trump with sufficient “negative firepower,” according to a long-awaited post-election autopsy released Thursday by the Democratic National Committee that did little to quell Democrats’ concerns about the direction of their party. The committee’s chair, Ken Martin, […]
Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election are casting a shadow over Georgia’s GOP runoffs
ATLANTA | For Donald Trump, it seems the 2020 presidential election is never over. That’s especially true in Georgia. The Republican president’s years of false claims that his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden was due to widespread fraud have shadowed many elections since in the presidential battleground. The issue is almost certain to play a […]
Colorado Democrats seek to censure Gov. Polis over Tina Peters prison sentence cut
This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at cpr.org. DENVER | In an unprecedented rebuke, a number of current Democratic state officials, lawmakers, party organizers, activists, and a Democratic National Committee member want the state party to temporarily suspend Democratic Gov. Jared Polis from attending and speaking at […]
Colorado Democrats overwhelmingly agree to censure Gov. Polis for Tina Peters clemency
This story was first published at Colorado Newsline. DENVER | olorado Gov. Jared Polis was formally censured by his own party Wednesday for his decision last week to grant clemency to Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted on multiple felony counts for her role in a breach of her office’s election system. More than 200 […]
Retired cop’s free speech vindicated, $835K settlement with Tennessee officials
Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While many people across the U.S. lost their jobs over social media comments about Kirk’s death, Larry Bushart’s case stood […]
SpaceX reveals plans for what could be the biggest-ever initial public offering
NEW YORK | Elon Musk announced plans Wednesday for one of the biggest stock sales ever by taking public a space company that is currently losing billions of dollars year. A filing shows that his SpaceX lost $2.6 billion from operations last year on $18.7 billion in revenue, and the losses kept piling up at […]
Colorado Democrats seek to censure Gov. Polis over Tina Peters prison sentence cut
This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at cpr.org. DENVER | In an unprecedented rebuke, a number of current Democratic state officials, lawmakers, party organizers, activists, and a Democratic National Committee member want the state party to temporarily suspend Democratic Gov. Jared Polis from attending and speaking at […]
Stephen Colbert’s long goodbye is coming to an end, leaving a void
NEW YORK | On his very first time hosting “The Late Show” back in 2015, Stephen Colbert ripped into Donald Trump while gorging on Oreos, likening his inability to resist the cookies to his inability to resist going after the then-presidential candidate. “Look, you don’t own me. I don’t need to play tape of you […]
Officers who defended Capitol from rioters sue to block payouts from $1.8B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
WASHINGTON | Two police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol from an attack by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters sued on Wednesday to block anyone — including Jan. 6, 2021, rioters — from receiving payouts from a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for people who claim to be victims of politically motivated […]
Putin and Xi hail their friendship and growing energy trade at their meeting in Beijing
BEIJING | Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed their strategic ties and growing energy trade as they met in Beijing Wednesday only days after a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to China. Putin and Xi oversaw the signing of more than 40 cooperation agreements in areas such as trade, technology […]