[ad_1] Police officers stand guard outside the headquarters of Apple Daily and Next Media after media mogul Jimmy Lai was detained by the national security unit in Hong Kong, China, August 10, 2020. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) The law has emboldened Xi Jinping’s regime to suppress dissent, punish activism, and create fear within the city’s democracy movement.

[ad_1] For a few years, Planned Parenthood has been embroiled in legal battles with Indiana over several of the state’s abortion regulations. One of those fights has to do with a law that requires women to obtain an ultrasound at least 18 hours before undergoing an abortion procedure. Planned Parenthood has a long history of

[ad_1] Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon speaks during a campaign rally for Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Judge Roy Moore in Midland City, Alabama, December 11, 2017. (Jonathan Bachman/Reuters) Steve Bannon was arrested this morning by federal investigators — he was reportedly nabbed on his boat by Postal Service inspectors — for skimming

[ad_1] Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York, speaks during a news conference at New Bridges Elementary School, ahead of schools reopening amid the coronavirus outbreak in Brooklyn, N.Y., August 19, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) New York mayor Bill de Blasio insisted on Thursday that the city was prepared to reopen its public school district, one

[ad_1] Before being confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in 2018, Elizabeth “Lisa” Branch established herself as a fair-minded judge during her years on the Georgia Court of Appeals. It is therefore no surprise that she has stood out as one of President Trump’s star judicial appointments. Recently in Greater Birmingham

[ad_1] President Donald Trump pauses as he addresses a re-election campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., June 20, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) A federal judge on Thursday rejected President Trump’s most recent effort to stop the Manhattan district attorney from obtaining his tax returns, despite the president’s argument that the prosecutor’s grand jury subpoena was “wildly overbroad”

[ad_1] Life is pretty challenging for Americans right now. We’re still enduring a serious pandemic of a deadly virus, most schools won’t be reopening for classes in the fall and God only knows when they will, riots and looters have trashed some of America’s greatest cities, and our economy is continuing a long climb out

[ad_1] Steve Bannon at a news conference. December 8, 2018. (Eric Vidal/Reuters) Former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon and three other defendants were arrested on Thursday morning and charged with fraud by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Bannon, along with Brian Kolfage, Timothy Shea, and Andrew Badolato, were charged with defrauding

[ad_1] President Donald Trump signs a proclamation on the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment of the Constitution during a ceremony in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 18, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The Susan B. Anthony Museum and House has rejected President Donald Trump’s pardon, arguing that

[ad_1] Laura Loomer (Campaign video image via YouTube) If you’re surprised by Loomer’s win, you may not have been paying attention. Laura Loomer has secured her place as the Republican nominee in Florida’s 21st congressional district. Among her qualifications to sit in the chamber once inhabited by Abraham Lincoln and James Madison are being permanently

[ad_1] FBI officials collect evidence from the parking lot of the Pulse night club in Orlando, Fla., June 15, 2016. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) An early segment about gun control on the third night of the Democratic convention made a reference to the Pulse nightclub shooting in June 2016. It’s remarkable how little reckoning there has been

[ad_1] The Senate began its August recess at the end of last week, but not before Mitch McConnell filed for cloture on five district court nominees. Since the June 24 confirmation of Cory Wilson to the Fifth Circuit, President Trump and the Senate have filled all federal appellate vacancies, so only lower court vacancies remain

[ad_1] Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, enacted in March, provides that “[a]thletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex.” In a ruling on Monday in Hecox v. Little, federal district judge David C. Nye—who I’m sorry to see is a Trump appointee—issued

[ad_1] School bus drivers lead a caravan through the downtown to demand that legislators provide more funding for COVID-19 re-opening procedures in Los Angeles, Calif., August 13, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) New York City’s largest teacher’s union on Wednesday threatened to go on strike unless the city’s education department complies with a list of safety demands

[ad_1] J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building in Washington, D.C. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, admitting that he altered an email that he used to apply for a FISA warrant against former Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith changed the email, which was originally

[ad_1] The Empire State Building is seen from the Top of The Rock in New York April 25, 2012. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) New York mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that the city has recorded its lowest positive testing rate for coronavirus since the pandemic began in March. The most recent daily results for citywide

[ad_1] Voting booths at a voting center at the Placerville Town Hall in Placerville, Calif., March 3, 2020. (Gabriela Bhaskar/Reuters) Last night, Republican primary voters nominated an infamous conspiracy theorist for a House seat . . . again. Unlike Marjorie Taylor Greene running in the heavily Republican House seat in Georgia, Laura Loomer is running

[ad_1] Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Dallas, Texas, U.S., May 4, 2018. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday proposed legislation that would deny the power to increase property taxes to cities that defund their police departments, following the Austin City Council’s decision to cut

[ad_1] Students study at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., September 20, 2018. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) It is increasingly difficult for tradition-minded grad students in history to find support. Few faculty members are interested in working with students who aren’t enthused about looking at the world through the standard lenses of race, gender, and

[ad_1] Linda Sarsour speaks at the Women’s Convention in Detroit, Mich., in 2017. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden condemned the views of former Women’s March co-chair Linda Sarsour, who has been repeatedly accused of anti-Semitism, after she participated in a Democratic National Convention council meeting on Tuesday. Sarsour, a Muslim activist who endorsed

[ad_1] Traders wait after trading was halted on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, March 18, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on Tuesday, rebounding from huge losses sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and breaking a previous record set in February. The S&P 500 climbed 0.23 percent, surpassing

[ad_1] A sign informs travelers arriving at Logan Airport in Boston, Mass., about the restrictions imposed by a Massachusetts Travel Order, August 3, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Public officials and the media should frame risks in a practical, comprehensible manner. Pictures of crowded bars and restaurants could lead one to conclude that people are terrible at

[ad_1] (simpson33/iStock/Getty Images Plus) He has a lot to lose. It is called the allocution. It is the most important part of a guilty plea in federal court. It comes — if it comes — when the judge personally addresses the accused, who has been placed under oath, and asks him to explain in his

[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appears by video feed in this frame grab from the DNC in Milwaukee, Wis., August 17, 2020. (Pool via Reuters) Ideally, a party whose top two presidential-primary finishers are approaching 80 would have more potential White House talent on its bench. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he first night of

[ad_1] Senator Kamala Harris laughs during a forum at the annual NAACP convention in Detroit, Mich., July 24, 2019. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Restoring the presidency to its proper constitutional role is the only way to ensure that such megalomaniacs don’t come so close to occupying it. Kamala Harris does not want to be the president of

[ad_1] Rep. Gwen Moore (D., Wis.) speaks at the DNC in Milwaukee, Wis., August 17, 2020. (Morry Gash/Reuters) The DNC’s opening night offered plenty of warm vagueness and attacks on Trump, while avoiding the party’s unpopular, radical platform. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C ute kids in red, white, and blue T-shirts singing the national anthem. Calls

[ad_1] Protestors gather outside of the condo of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in Washington, D.C., August 15, 2020. (Cheriss May/Reuters) Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced Tuesday he will suspend the cutbacks and operational changes he recently instituted to the U.S. Postal Service until after the November election. In an effort to make the money-losing agency

[ad_1] Representative Anthony Brindisi addresses a crowd at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, April 8, 2018. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Representative Anthony Brindisi (D., N.Y.), a trial lawyer by training whose family runs a personal injury firm, has backed Democratic efforts to end qualified immunity protections for police officers, which, if successful, would likely provide a

[ad_1] Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) speaks during the Democratic National Convention at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Wisc., August 17, 2020. (Scott Olson/Pool via Reuters) As someone who is — stifles groans — obligated by journalistic duties to watch all nights of the Democratic convention this week and the GOP convention next week, it is

[ad_1] Governor Andrew Cuomo wears a mask as he arrives to speak during a daily coronavirus briefing in New York, July 13, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) New York governor Andrew Cuomo is writing a book about his experience managing the coronavirus pandemic and his relationship with the Trump administration, his publisher Crown announced Tuesday. “American Crisis,”