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The president faced pressure from his base to endorse the state's attorney general, Ken Paxton. But advisers had urged him to support Sen. John Cornyn, arguing that Paxton has too much baggage.
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President Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to toss two verdicts against him resulting from civil litigation brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. In 2019, the famous advice columnist published a memoir describing an encounter in the 1990s when she says Trump sexually assaulted her in a department store. When Trump denied the account, Carroll sued him and won $5 million in damages, with a unanimous New York jury finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. After Trump made disparaging remarks about Carroll, she sued him again and won a second defamation judgment for $83.3 million. Federal courts have upheld both verdicts, but now Trump's attorneys are asking the Supreme Court to overturn them, asserting he has "absolute immunity" as president.
Carroll's life and her legal fight against Trump are the focus of a new documentary, Ask E. Jean, by award-winning filmmaker Ivy Meeropol. "This is an incredible opportunity for audiences to see what really goes on when a woman brings a case like this, especially against a powerful man," Meeropol says.
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The SNP leader is to be formally sworn in on Wednesday before he chooses a new cabinet.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is taking on a problem that the Pentagon and Congress have tried, and mostly failed, to address for years.
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Rhun ap Iorwerth was accused of being distracted by the issue after he pressed the case for more powers.
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Stephen Flynn and Stephen Gethins stood down as MPs after being elected to Holyrood earlier this month
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NextEra's proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy comes as Americans are paying a lot more for electricity, and data centers are demanding a lot more power from utilities.
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Who is standing for Parliament in the Greater Manchester constituency of Makerfield?
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Democrats face an uphill battle to win the Senate. They see in Mary Peltola, the first Native Alaskan elected to Congress, their best chance to unseat Senator Dan Sullivan.
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A House transportation bill introduced this week would require owners of electric cars to pay $130 to cover the cost of road repairs.
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A prominent Republican critic of President Trump is trying to hang on in Kentucky, and other states are also holding primaries that will test Mr. Trump's power over his party.
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Donald Trump on Monday dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a leak of his personal and business tax records, a bizarre case of a sitting president suing his own government and essentially acting as both plaintiff and defendant. This comes amid reports that Trump's Department of Justice was considering settling the case in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate victims of so-called weaponization of the DOJ under the Biden and Obama administrations. Trump allies who participated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol could file claims and be compensated.
"They want a $1.7 billion slush fund, which comes to a million dollars a head in terms of Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the insurrectionists, with $100 million left over of taxpayer money to spread around in different ways," says Congressmember Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, who spoke with Democracy Now! shortly before news broke of Trump dropping the IRS lawsuit.
Raskin last week introduced the Protecting Our Democracy Act, which is geared toward curbing the president's profiteering from public office. "Corruption is the whole purpose of the Trump administration," says Raskin. "It's not like some eccentric peripheral thing; it's a vast money-making operation."
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President Trump has repeatedly said he'll restart military action against Iran, only to stop short of plunging the United States directly back into an unpopular war.
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Graham Platner is a Democrat in Maine hoping to defeat Susan Collins in the midterms this November. On "The Interview," he talked about why he takes an expansive view of the working class.
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Rising oil prices and growing bond market volatility have raised fears of a global recession.
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Graham Platner, a Democrat, is hoping to defeat Susan Collins in Maine's Senate race this fall. On "The Interview," he talks about why the country needs to find a way to rebuild the political system.
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The timing brought the court into the middle of a fight to redraw voting maps across the South, even as some primaries were underway.
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First on Democrats' to-do list must be banning gerrymandering, restoring voting rights protections and reforming the Supreme Court.
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The prime minister has faced calls from his own MPs to step down and outline a timetable for his departure.
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Under pressure from President Trump, the South Carolina legislature will consider new House districts this week. Some Republicans worry changes could backfire.
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Our simulations show that the act isn't needed for minority representation in the South, if partisan gerrymandering were checked.
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Senator Bill Cassidy, a two-term Republican who voted to convict President Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial, could not muster enough votes to continue to a runoff next month.
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The presumptive Democratic Senate nominee from Maine enters the general election fray.
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Salah Sarsour, a prominent Palestinian immigrant, green card holder and president of Wisconsin's largest mosque, the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, has been locked up in an ICE jail since late March. Despite his lawful permanent resident status, the government says he could be subject to deportation for failing to disclose a conviction by Israeli military authorities when he was a teenager in the occupied West Bank. Sarsour says he never understood the charges presented against him in Hebrew and that he was tortured in Israeli custody. Supporters view the case as an escalation of the Trump administration's crackdown on Pro-Palestinian speech. Munjed Ahmad, a member of Salah Sarsour's legal team, says, "Salah's case will be a litmus test. Will we allow the administration to gut those rights and to strip people from their free speech?"
Ahmad is joined by Sarsour's son Kareem, who calls Trump's federal immigration agents "kidnappers" and says his family initially had no idea what had happened to his father. While incarcerated, Salah Sarsour missed the birth of his ninth grandchild. "He's a community pillar," says Kareem Sarsour. "The entire thing shook us as a family."
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