Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) endorsed former president Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination Friday night in New Hampshire, throwing his support to his former rival in the race. The decision by Scott, who suspended his presidential bid in November, comes as Nikki Haley, a fellow South Carolina Republican, is mounting a strong challenge to […]Read More

The Louisiana state legislature on Friday approved a new congressional map that includes two majority-Black districts after being ordered to do so by a federal court that found that the existing map illegally diminished Black voting power. Approval by the legislature comes after a years-long court battle to give Black voters in the state more […]Read More

Five Senate Democrats on Friday signed onto a measure that would condition aid to Israel on its compliance with international law, bringing the total number of co-sponsors to 18. And a prominent Democrat, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, is rounding up support for his amendment to stop President Biden from circumventing Congress when he orders […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump is lobbing racially charged attacks at Republican rival Nikki Haley, a daughter of Indian immigrants who served as his U.N. ambassador, days before a hotly contested New Hampshire primary that could determine the trajectory of the party’s nominating contest. In a lengthy post on his social media platform Friday, Trump gave […]Read More

Donald Trump this week bragged about purportedly acing a widely used cognitive test that was administered to him when he was president, suggesting that the test included identifying drawings of three animals. “I think it was 35, 30 questions,” the former president said in Portsmouth, N.H., of the test, which he said involved a few […]Read More

At a debate last week, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis effectively took turns calling each other liars for two hours. It was a striking scene — not just because of the vitriol, but because of the man who was spared. Donald Trump, after all, was the candidate the two of them were ostensibly trying to […]Read More

AMHERST, N.H. — Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley said Friday that being vice president is “off the table,” her sharpest rejection so far of the notion that she could be former president Donald Trump’s running mate if he ultimately wins the Republican presidential nomination. During a campaign stop at a diner in New Hampshire, a […]Read More

The Los Angeles Innocence Project is taking up the case of Scott Peterson, who was convicted in the murder of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, in 2004, a case that captivated the nation. In a statement, the LAIP said it was “investigating his claim of actual innocence.” Peterson, now 51, was originally sentenced to death […]Read More

One of the arguments offered by attorneys for President Biden’s son Hunter when responding to a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee for a closed-door deposition was that the committee had shown a pattern of cherry-picking what would be presented to the public. This is unquestionably true. Over and over and over and over and […]Read More