Former football coach Derek Dooley entering Georgia Senate race

by admin | Aug 4, 2025 | Politics

Frederick Breedon/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Derek Dooley, a former University of Tennessee football coach, is launching a bid Monday for the Senate in Georgia, entering a shifting political landscape as candidates vie for coveted endorsements and the chance to...

Texas House Democrats plan to flee state to try to stop proposed congressional maps

by admin | Aug 3, 2025 | Politics

P A Thompson/Getty Images(AUSTIN, Texas) — Democratic statehouse legislators are planning to leave Texas on Sunday in order to break the quorum of a special legislative session in which Republican state legislators are aiming to pass a new congressional map that...

Deadly DC plane crash was years in the making, air traffic manager tells NTSB

by admin | Aug 3, 2025 | Politics

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The deadly mid-air collision at Reagan Airport in January was years in the making, the operations manager of the DCA air traffic control tower on the night of the accident told the National Transportation Safety Board...

Office of Special Counsel says it’s opened Hatch Act probe of Jack Smith

by admin | Aug 2, 2025 | Politics

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Office of Special Counsel confirmed Saturday that it has opened an investigation into former Special Counsel Jack Smith and whether he violated the Hatch Act through his criminal investigations into President...

Appeals court upholds restrictions on Los Angeles immigration arrests

by admin | Aug 2, 2025 | Politics

Mario Tama/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — An appeals court upheld a lower court’s order to temporarily block federal immigration agents from conducting immigration-related arrests in Los Angeles without probable cause.In the ruling on Friday night, the ninth...

Democratic governors throw support behind Newsom, back partisan redistricting

by admin | Aug 2, 2025 | Politics

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(MADISON, WI) — — A number of high-profile Democratic governors are ready to fight — ardently throwing support behind their colleagues who have said they will draw new Congressional maps to favor Democrats before the 2026...