Calendar of chaos: How Trump’s trial dates and the 2024 election overlap
In a typical presidential election year, candidates will spend the 11 months leading up to election day shaking hands and kissing babies at rallies as the primaries unfold.
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Tennessee teacher and gun safety advocates slam move to arm school staff: ‘We don’t go into teaching to kill someone’
Cathy Barnett, a retired Tennessee teacher, has seen the job of an educator in the US change dramatically in the wake of bloody school shooting after bloody school shooting.
Are Mike Johnson and Donald Trump suddenly a match made in heaven?
Speaker Mike Johnson is making a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago this week, where he and Donald Trump will be at work to keep each other afloat.
Mike Johnson suffers embarrassing defeat over government spying bill Trump wanted to kill
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson watched his party revolt on another key rule vote as the House voted on reforms to the US's domestic surveillance system (FISA).
Trump and GOP retreat from near-total abortion ban in Arizona
Donald Trump and his party led an all-hands retreat from the furthest reaches of the pro-life standpoint this week after an Arizona Supreme Court decision snapped back into place the state’s century-old abortion ban which bars the practice in almost all cases.
Tennessee Senate advances bill to allow death penalty for child rape
Tennessee's GOP-controlled Senate advanced legislation on Tuesday allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions as critics raised concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases.
Prosecutors say evidence was suppressed in case of Texas death row inmate Melissa Lucio
Melissa Lucio, a Texas woman whose execution was delayed in 2022 amid growing doubts she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter, had evidence suppressed at her murder trial, according to prosecutors in the case, which has become a cause celebre among people including Kim Kardashian.
Why Donald Trump is repeating a smear about Democrats wanting to ‘execute’ babies
Former President Donald Trump finally responded to criticism of his murky stance on reproductive rights on Monday and issued a video statement outlining abortion policy under a Trump second term.