Turks and Caicos’ top official hit back Thursday at U.S. lawmakers, slamming the Caribbean nation’s arrests of five American tourists accused in separate incidents of having bullets mixed in with their vacation luggage. Source link
State Assembly member Vince Fong, a California legislator backed by former President Donald Trump, has captured a special election to complete the remainder of the term of deposed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which runs through January. Source link
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — One of the two Black lawmakers briefly expelled from Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Statehouse last year will remain on the 2024 ballot after overcoming a challenge from a Republican opponent. Earlier this year, Rep. Justin Jones submitted 26 signatures to Nashville election officials in order to qualify to run as a Democratic candidate. He […]
Democrats in the Arizona House will no longer have access to meeting rooms controlled by the House speaker except for caucus meetings and hearings after the speaker said one Democrat “lied to” him about the nature of a drag story hour held at the Capitol on Tuesday. Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma, a Republican, said […]
The Supreme Court of Finland will hear arguments in the case of an evangelical lawmaker and a Lutheran bishop who are accused of hate speech in expressing their biblical views on homosexuality, defense attorneys said. The high court trial will be the third in which Päivi Räsänen, a former interior minister, and Bishop Juhana Pohjola […]
LONDON — A second British lawmaker has acknowledged receiving explicit messages on his phone in what police are investigating as a malicious phishing attempt against politicians, their staff and journalists. Conservative legislator Luke Evans said he had been a victim of “cyber flashing and malicious communications” a month ago, when an unknown individual sent him […]
A Nebraska lawmaker who invoked the name of a colleague while reading a graphic account of rape on the floor of the Legislature violated the body’s workforce sexual harassment policy, an outside investigator found, leading the body’s governing board to issue Republican state Sen. Steve Halloran a letter of reprimand. But that announcement Wednesday by […]
Two members of an Illinois Prisoner Review Board have resigned after an 11-year-old boy was stabbed to death and his mother injured, allegedly by a criminal they released despite the string of threats hurled at the victims. The chairman and another member of the board stepped down after the murderous rampage was reportedly perpetrated by […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — State Rep. John Rogers, a longtime member of the Alabama House of Representatives, will plead guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of justice, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Rogers, a Democrat from Birmingham, will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to obstruct […]
A Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania has canceled her scheduled Saturday address to an Islamic organization, some of whose leaders celebrated Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 rape and slaughter of more than 1,200 Israelis, after she received harsh, bipartisan criticism. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., announced her change of heart Tuesday on X, formerly known as Twitter, claiming […]
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