A six-week abortion restriction officially took effect in Iowa on Monday after efforts to block the law by pro-abortion groups failed in court. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, has been fighting to enforce the law since she signed it following its passage last year. The ACLU of Iowa, Planned Parenthood North Central States and...
As the nation focused on the implosion of President Biden’s candidacy beginning last month, legacy media organizations jumped on a conservative group’s plan they warn will be implemented in a hypothetical second term for former President Trump. Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project and launched in April 2023 by the Heritage Foundation,...
President Biden called House Speaker Mike Johnson “dead on arrival” during a strange interaction with a reporter on Monday. The exchange came shortly after Biden called on Congress to impose term limits and a code of conduct on the Supreme Court. In a statement released earlier on Monday, Johnson condemned Biden’s proposal to “radically overhaul...
President Biden on Monday outlined his wish for Congress to impose “bold” rules on the Supreme Court, including term limits and a new code of conduct, and to draft a new constitutional amendment that limits presidential immunity. “In recent years, extreme opinions that the Supreme Court has handed down have undermined the longest civil rights...
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is being considered as a top contender for Kamala Harris’ vice president on the 2024 Democratic ticket. Originally from Nash County, Cooper, 67, practiced law for 18 years and then served in the state legislature before serving four terms as attorney general between 2001 and 2017. “Democrats are likely to...
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., announced Monday the representatives named to a bipartisan panel that will investigate the assassination attempt against former President Trump earlier this month. “We have the utmost confidence in this bipartisan group of steady, highly qualified, and capable Members of Congress to move quickly to...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has issued an emergency executive order suspending parts of a new law that would limit solitary confinement in city jails, arguing that it would put correctional staff and inmates at further risk. The new law, which went into effect Sunday, originally intended to impose a four-hour time limit on...
Following an assassination attempt on former President Trump, the Secret Service has reportedly urged the Trump campaign to reconsider future outdoor events, and one attendee of that tragic event said she may not attend another given the circumstances. Secret Service officials suggested to the Trump campaign that they no longer hold outdoor rallies, and the...
FIRST ON FOX: Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, hit a fundraising milestone in the last quarter, just months ahead of the Senate Republican leader election, in which he’s hoping to fend off challengers to succeed reigning top fundraiser and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. He recently closed his highest-raising quarter in history with his joint fundraising...
As Republicans appear bullish on breaking Democrats’ 50-year cycle of keeping Minnesota out of presidential election play, a new law in neighboring Iowa brings a controversial political issue front-and-center there. On Monday, Iowa’s new six-week abortion ban took effect, leading one of Minnesota’s top executive officials to issue an invitation to Iowans seeking access to...
