Share This StoryCongresswoman Ilhan Omar and a slew of left-wing officials slammed the Minnesota DFL’s decision vacate the Minneapolis DFL’s endorsement of Sen. Omar Fateh for mayor of the city. In a lengthy statement, the group said the decision “will be a stain” on the party. “A small group of DFL board members, a majority […]
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Austin woman sentenced after posing as dead mother for 25 years in Social Security scam
Share This StoryA 54-year-old Austin woman has been sentenced in federal court for stealing more than $360,000 in Social Security benefits over a 25-year period by posing as her dead mother. Mavious Redmond was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and one year of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson announced […]
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Texas Senate debates redistricting bill, is expected to pass it easily
By Brad Brooks
(Reuters) -The Texas Senate on Friday began debating a bill that redraws the state’s congressional maps at the behest of President Donald Trump in an effort to flip five seats held by Democrats to Republicans.
After the state House passed it on Wednesday, the Senate was anticipated to approve it on Friday. Texas Governor Greg Abbott was expected then to quickly sign it into law amid a contentious nationwide... -
Trump: DC Mayor Bowser must get act together or won’t be mayor anymore
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser “better get her act straight” or she won’t continue in her role too far in the future.
“It was unsafe,” Trump told reporters. “It was horrible and Mayor Bowser better get her act straight or she won’t be mayor very long because we take it over with the Federal Government running it like it’s supposed to be run.”
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s national profile soars with latest Trump fight, but there are risks
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gavin Newsom is having a moment.
In the national struggle over U.S. House control, perhaps no politician has more at stake than the California governor, who has emerged as the leading Democratic adversary to President Donald Trump in what many see as a lightly masked trial run for his own future White House bid.
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Trump threatens to remove Washington, DC Mayor Bowser over crime
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday said Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser “better get her act straight” or she won’t continue in her role too far in the future.
“It was unsafe,” Trump told reporters. “It was horrible and Mayor Bowser better get her act straight or she won’t be mayor very long because we take it over with the Federal Government running it like it’s supposed to be run.”
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Head of Pentagon’s intelligence agency fired, lawmaker says
(Reuters) -The head of the Pentagon’s intelligence agency has been fired, a move the top Democratic lawmaker on the Senate intelligence committee on Friday slammed as the latest example of politicizing intelligence under President Donald Trump’s administration.
“The firing of yet another senior national security official underscores the Trump administration’s dangerous habit of treating intelligence as a loyalty test rather than... -
Trump threatens federal intervention in Chicago, government takeover in D.C
By Andrea Shalal and Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would expand his crime crackdown to Chicago, using federal powers to intervene in another city governed by Democrats, and threatened to take full control of Washington, D.C., rather than only its policing.
Saying without evidence that violent crime was out of control in the nation’s capital, Trump last week deployed... -
What to Know about John Bolton, former Trump adviser whose home and office are searched by FBI
John Bolton, whose home and office were searched by federal agents on Friday, has been one of the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump since serving as a national security adviser in Trump’s first administration.
After serving in the White House, Bolton wrote a scathing book that portrayed Trump as grossly ill-informed about foreign policy. FBI agents’ searches of Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington office, purportedly... -
Treasury’s No. 2 official Faulkender is leaving administration, Treasury says
By Andrea Shalal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender is leaving the Trump administration less than five months after being confirmed by the Senate, the Treasury Department said.
Faulkender is the second Senate-confirmed official to leave the Treasury Department this month, following the departure of IRS Commissioner Billy Long, who said he was being tapped as ambassador to Iceland. ... -
How the AP did its analysis of partisan advantage in US House districts
The Associated Press used an “efficiency gap” analysis to examine congressional elections in 2024 and other recent presidential election years.
The test — designed by Eric McGhee, a researcher at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, and Harvard Law School professor Nick Stephanopoulos — identifies states where one party is extraordinarily efficient at translating votes into victories in legislative districts.... -
AP analysis shows Texas and California redistricting efforts could mess with rare partisan balance
As Texas Republicans and California Democrats redraw U.S. House districts to their advantage ahead of next year’s elections, they’re potentially disrupting a rare partisan balance in American politics.
The 220-215 majority that Republicans won over Democrats in last year’s elections almost perfectly aligns with the share of the vote the two parties received in districts across the U.S., according to an Associated Press analysis.... -
Trump says he’ll fire Fed’s Cook if she doesn’t resign over mortgage questions
By Andrea Shalal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook if she doesn’t resign, intensifying his effort to gain influence over the U.S. central bank.
“I’ll fire her if she doesn’t resign,” Trump told reporters during a visit to a Washington museum focused on the White House.
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Texas Republicans aim for final passage of redistricting after California Democrats’ counterpunch
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans were aiming Friday to give final passage to an unprecedented mid-decade redraw of the state’s congressional map and send it to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk for final approval ahead of the 2026 elections.
Debate in the GOP-controlled Senate could last for hours, but it was expected to proceed more smoothly than the fiery showdown in the House that ignited a broader, state-by-state redistricting... -
Michael Faulkender, U.S. Treasury Department’s No. 2 official, set to depart, WSJ reports
(Reuters) -Michael Faulkender, the second-highest official at the U.S. Treasury Department, is leaving the administration, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.
(Reporting by Nilutpal Timsina in Bengaluru)
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