1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (311+ words) Over the past 24 hours, rumors have swirled over the possible early retirement of a five-term Republican member of Congress who had already announced he will not seek re-election. Given Speaker Mike Johnson's extremely slim majority in the House, even one…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (300+ words) Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein stand as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is questioned during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Justice Department, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2026. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) confronted Attorney General…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago   (867+ words) Matthew Rozsa is a professional journalist with more than 14 years of experience. His past bylines include Salon, Democracy at Work, MSNBC, Mic, The Daily Dot, RawStory, Yahoo, Quartz, Reason and Dread Central. He is currently writing a memoir for Beacon…...

1+ hour, 46+ min ago   (200+ words) When an antitrust attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was assigned a case where she had a potential conflict of interest, she recused herself in accordance with standard legal ethics. But the DOJ reportedly ordered her back on the…...

1+ hour, 52+ min ago   (217+ words) Raul Labrador in Cleveland, Ohio in August 2015 (Gage Skidmore/Flickr) In deep red Idaho " a state that President Donald Trump won by 36.5 percent in 2024 " public schoolteacher Sarah Inama hung up, in her classroom, a poster that read, "Everyone is welcome…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (280+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump reacts, as he attends a ceremony held to dedicate a 4-mile stretch of road from West Palm Beach Airport to his Mar-a-Lago estate as 'President Donald J. Trump Boulevard'. (REUTERS) Bulwark site editor Jonathan Last says President Donald…...

2+ hour, 32+ min ago   (282+ words) Fox News host-turned U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's attempt to criminally charge six members of Congress fell flat this week. That may be due to the personnel she put in charge of making the case to the grand jury.Bloomberg Law reported…...

2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (492+ words) Roger Penske, businessman and former race car driver, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, react as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 30, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque…...

3+ hour, 18+ min ago   (475+ words) Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing calls to resign following what Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) describes as having "misrepresented the extent of" his "relationship with" the late billionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Lutnick, during a Senate…...

3+ hour, 20+ min ago   (181+ words) Early Wednesday morning, February 11, the news broke that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had closed airspace in El Paso, Texas for ten days. And an FAA notice described the airspace in that area as "defense airspace," warning that pilots who…...