Politics

A 13-year-old Florida girl threatened to blow up a middle school in a message written on a restroom wall because she was “bored,” police said. The girl was arrested and charged with second-degree written threats to kill, injured or conduct act of terrorism, the Haines City Police Department said over the weekend.  “We take every threat to our schools seriously,” …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday evening that her husband is making “steady progress on what will be a long recovery process” after being attacked by a man with a hammer in their San Francisco residence in the early hours of Friday morning.  “We have been deluged with thousands of messages conveying concern, prayers and warm wishes,” Pelosi tweeted. …

The Biden administration says it will not “waste time” on trying to revive talks with Iran regarding its dormant nuclear deal in light of Tehran’s brutal crackdown on antigovernment protesters and its support of Russia in its war against Ukraine.  While speaking at an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Monday, U.S. envoy for Iran Rob …

Opening arguments in the criminal tax fraud trial of the Trump Organization began Monday in New York City. The Trump Organization is facing allegations of tax fraud following a three-year investigation. The business is accused of paying senior executives millions in off-the-books compensation through fringe benefits. Neither former President Trump nor any of his children are charged or accused of any …

The futile Fetterman spin Washington Times national politics correspondent Susan Ferrechio and Fox News contributor Mara Liasson weigh in on the highly-contested Pennsylvania Senate race between Dr. Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman. Republican Pennsylvania Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz has received the endorsement from one of the state’s largest newspapers with little more than a week left in his heated …

Democratic Ohio Senate nominee Tim Ryan appears to have turned to a former Republican strategist with ties to the disgraced Lincoln Project for help with his campaign as he enters the final week leading up to Election Day, trailing in the polls to Republican nominee JD Vance. Steve Schmidt, a co-founder of the left-wing PAC that has been beset by …

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Monday clashed with a lawyer for a student group seeking to end affirmative action in college admissions, as the justice challenged whether the group has “standing” to sue.  “Why is it that race is doing anything different to your members’ ability to compete in this environment,” in comparison to a number of other factors involved in …

There were at least 10,000 fewer legal abortions in the U.S. in the two months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to FiveThirtyEight. SCOTUS struck down Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in late June, leading Republican states to institute limits on abortion across the country. The limits caused some women to travel to Democratic states to …

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, a longtime Democratic donor, has recently ramped up political contributions to Democrats in the form of big-dollar donations and technological campaign assistance. Schmidt — who has an estimated net worth north of $19 billion, according to Bloomberg — has for decades made political donations to Democratic campaigns and political action committees, but he has become …

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases Monday that could mean the end of decades of race-based affirmative action at universities. The cases regard allegations that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discriminate against Asian Americans — and in the UNC case, Whites as well — as they consider race in admissions. Students for …