New Jersey Gov. Sherrill demands Lt. Gov. Caldwell resign after probe finds sexual harassment, ethics violations

New Jersey's Democratic governor gave her own lieutenant governor until Friday to resign after an independent investigation substantiated sexual harassment and repeated ethics violations, raising fresh questions about accountability within her administration. Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced Thursday that she was publicly calling on Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell to step down, citing findings from a 61-page […]

Rand Paul accuses Tom Cotton of blocking classified gain-of-function research documents

Sen. Rand Paul says a fellow Republican chairman is actively working to keep his committee from seeing classified documents tied to gain-of-function research, and has written to the intelligence community to make sure of it. Paul, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, named Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton directly in […]

Rep. Delia Ramirez demands ICE and CBP be abolished, proposes redirecting $150 billion to illegal immigrants

A Democratic congresswoman declared in Spanish her plan to "completely defund and strip authority from ICE and CBP" and replace them with a so-called Department of Community Safety, drawing sharp rebukes from Republican lawmakers. Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois, the daughter of two Guatemalan immigrants who entered the country illegally, held a public event where […]

Kansas Democratic Senate nominee tells Kamala Harris to stay away: 'You would actually hurt me'

Kansas Democrat Rev. Adam Hamilton publicly rejected Kamala Harris's help in his long-shot Senate bid, telling her to stay out of his state, a snub that reflects a broader pattern of Democratic candidates treating the former vice president as a liability. Hamilton, a longtime pastor who won an 11-candidate Democratic primary in August, made the […]

Gundlach Bundschu, California's oldest family-owned winery, files for Chapter 11 after 168 years

A sixth-generation Sonoma Valley winery that survived phylloxera, the 1906 earthquake, Prohibition, and wildfire has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, brought low by a debt-financed deal made weeks before the pandemic changed everything. Gundlach Bundschu Winery, known to locals as "GunBun," announced it is seeking court-supervised restructuring and hopes to bring in a new investor […]

Peter Byrne, singer behind Naked Eyes' '80s New Wave hits, dead at 74

Peter Byrne, the British vocalist who gave Naked Eyes its signature sound on hits like "Always Something There to Remind Me," has died at 74 in Los Angeles after a brief illness, leaving fans of the '80s New Wave era mourning another voice from the decade's golden run. A statement on the Naked Eyes official […]

House Republicans release Jack Smith transcripts revealing secret subpoenas of GOP lawmakers' phone records

House Republicans released six transcripts from Jack Smith's team that reveal investigators secretly subpoenaed phone records of more than a dozen Republican members of Congress, using gag orders to keep the lawmakers from ever finding out. The House Judiciary Committee published the transcripts on Tuesday, pulling back the curtain on how the former special counsel's […]

Jackson County grand jury clears all suspects in Nolan Wells drowning case

A Mississippi grand jury found no criminal wrongdoing in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, who vanished on Horn Island over the Fourth of July, but the teen's family and their attorney say the case is far from closed. Twenty-three Jackson County citizens reviewed the evidence and returned a unanimous "no true bill," declining to […]

Jeffries fires back after retiring Democrat endorses Republican rival on his home turf

Retiring Rep. Jared Golden handed Republican Rep. Mike Lawler a cross-party endorsement in a competitive New York district, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries responded with a blistering public attack on both men. Golden, a Maine Democrat who announced he would not seek re-election, published an op-ed endorsing Lawler for a third term representing New […]

Trump signs security deal with Denmark giving U.S. permanent military control over Greenland

President Trump signed a trilateral security agreement with Denmark and Greenland on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, expanding America's Arctic military footprint while global conflicts underscore the island's strategic value. The deal, announced Friday and signed Tuesday in New York, grants the United States permanent control over security operations in Greenland and bars […]