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Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Republican challenger Steve Toth defeated U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Tuesday night, ousting the only House Republican in Texas who President Donald Trump didn't endorse heading into the Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL whose independent streak sometimes clashed with fellow Republicans, spent the primary trying to fend off attacks from the party's hard right that he was not in step with Trump's agenda. Toth, a state ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Justice Department lawyers are heading to court today to defend President Donald Trump's attacks on law firms after the administration backtracked on a move to drop out of those fights. DOJ wants a judge to throw out an American Bar Association lawsuit challenging what the group calls Trump's "law firm intimidation policy." The suit stems from a series of executive orders that targeted certain firms last year, and ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Homeland security secretary was grilled in Senate hearing over immigration enforcement crackdown in Twin Cities The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem , on Tuesday would not retract her statements calling the two US citizens who were killed by immigration enforcement officers in Minneapolis earlier this year "domestic terrorists", while also claiming that agents do not abide by ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Hillary Clinton lost it on MAGA lawmakers Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert as the former first lady's Epstein deposition went off the rails. Clinton's deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday was released on YouTube by the GOP Oversight Committee on Monday. The upload revealed the moment Clinton, 78, stormed out of the meeting when it was revealed that Boebert, the U.S. representative for Colorado's ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
The Supreme Court revived a San Diego judge's order Monday and said parents have a right to know about their child's gender identity at school. The decision came in a 6-3 order granting an emergency appeal from lawyers for Chicago-based Thomas More Society. They said the student privacy policy enforced in California infringes on parents' rights and the free exercise of religion. "The parents object that these ...
Source: latimes.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
The U.S. Supreme Court has halted an attempt to redraw New York's 11th Congressional District, likely ensuring that the city's lone Republican representative, Nicole Malliotakis , will keep her seat through this year's midterm elections. On Monday, the Court sided with Malliotakis when it issued an emergency stay of a lower court's ruling, which dictated that the boundaries of the congresswoman's district are ...
Source: nymag.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — A high-stakes antitrust trial that could lead to the possible breakup of Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, got underway Tuesday in a case over whether the entertainment giant's dominance of the concert industry amounts to an illegal monopoly. In opening statements, a U.S. Justice Department lawyer pointed to the company's infamously problem-plagued effort to sell Taylor Swift ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Sanders, Khanna Pitch Billionaire Tax American billionaires would pay a 5% annual wealth tax under a bill floated by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) , as interest in taxing the wealthy spreads in some states. The proposal, likely dead on arrival in the current GOP-controlled Congress, would raise $4.4 trillion in revenue over a decade, a news release said . But some tax policy analysts ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man who gave his teenage son the gun he's accused of using to kill two students and two teachers at a high school was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Jurors took less than two hours to find Colin Gray guilty of all charges in the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, northeast of Atlanta. Gray now joins a growing number ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
March 3 (UPI) -- A jury found the father of an alleged school shooter in Georgia guilty on Tuesday of 29 charges, including two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of involuntary manslaughter. Colin Gray, 55, could get up to 180 years in prison for buying his son Colt Gray the gun that was allegedly used to kill four people at Apalachee High School in 2024. Gray, 55, gifted his son an AR-style rifle after ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Mar 2nd, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump's Justice Department had urged the Federal Circuit last Friday to proceed cautiously and impose a 90-day delay, but judges dismissed the request A federal court has rejected the Trump administration 's bid to slow the process of refunding billions of dollars in tariffs , ...
Source: independent.co.uk