She wore a wire. For months. Inside the innermost circle of California’s most powerful Democrat. Alexis Podesta was a fixture in Sacramento politics — a Newsom appointee, a Jerry Brown alum, the kind of insider who knows where the bodies are buried because she helped bury a few herself. Starting in June 2024, she was also working with the FBI.
A former Olympic canoeist is facing a felony charge. He says he was just curious. David “Davey” Hearn represented the United States in whitewater canoeing at the Olympics. Last month, he says, he stopped his bike at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He saw a piece of loose blue coating. He touched it. Now he’s indicted for destruction of property.
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Kamala Harris made a phone call last week. On the other end was Zohran Mamdani, the young New York mayor who has become the face of the party’s ascendant left. The talk ran long. It was, by all accounts, the first of many. The subject was the future of the Democratic Party. That future, increasingly, runs through people like Mamdani,
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The Supreme Court has spoken. States may protect women’s sports. On Tuesday, the justices ruled for West Virginia and Idaho against transgender athletes who sued for access to girls’ teams. The vote was 6-3. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the majority. The states were defended by Alliance Defending Freedom. The athletes were represented by the ACLU and Cooley. The cases
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The Supreme Court on Monday upheld state laws that let election officials count mail ballots arriving after Election Day, so long as they were postmarked by Election Day, turning back a Republican-backed challenge to the practice. The ruling leaves intact laws used by more than a dozen states that give officials a window after Election Day to receive and count
Sen. Elissa Slotkin has a diagnosis for her own party, and she didn’t soften it. The Democrats, she says, need new leadership — and they never really got up off the mat after 2024. She said it Wednesday on SiriusXM’s “Straight Shooter,” to host Stephen A. Smith. Every day, she told him, the party argues with itself about which way
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Two rulings, one morning, the same direction. The Supreme Court gave President Trump a pair of immigration wins Thursday, and both came down to a single question the administration has been chasing for months: who gets to ask for asylum, and who doesn’t. The answer, now, is narrower than it was a day ago. Take the first case, Mullin v.
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President Trump abruptly cancelled Wednesday’s signing of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, turning the moment into an ultimatum: pass the SAVE America Act first. “Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” he wrote on Truth Social.
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Democrat Rep. Jared Huffman (CA) accused the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) of politically weaponizing religion by “rebuking” Democrats who support abortion, and the congressman suggested that these Catholic churches should
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