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Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., shared a brief post on social media Thursday evening, criticizing Republicans who are pushing to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Extreme MAGA Republicans are demanding a full impeachment trial in the Senate,” Jeffries wrote in a post on X. “They want to continue the phony political stunt targeting the Homeland Security Secretary.” …

House Democrats are pouring money and resources into four congressional seats in a bid to win back the majority as the 2024 election cycle heats up. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the House Democrats’ campaign arm, announced a new slate of races for its “Red to Blue” program. They’re targeting vulnerable Republican lawmakers in California, New York and New …

As I write this, I’m befuddled as to how to identify the late Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman. He died from a fall at age 82 in New York this week. For writing purposes, do I stylize him as “Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.?” Or do I write “Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn.?” This subject vexed me for years. It became even more …

A California man has been sentenced to 11 months in prison for leaving threatening voicemails to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. David Allen Carrier, 44, pleaded guilty to two counts of making threats against a federal official in December after a grand jury had indicted him three months …

Democrat Marilyn Lands won an Alabama legislature special election on Tuesday considered a bellwether contest on abortion and in vitro fertilization (IVF) ahead of the 2024 November elections. Lands, who made reproductive rights a centerpiece of her campaign in deep red Alabama early on by launching an ad in which she shared the story of her own abortion decades ago, …

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sister, Rory Kennedy, expressed concerns Monday over his campaign possibly spoiling President Biden’s chances at re-election. “A CNN poll from just last weekend in the key state of Michigan found more than half of voters have an unfavorable opinion of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden,” CNN’s Erin Burnett told Rory Kennedy on Monday. “We know …

CONCORD, N.H. — In a surprise announcement, longtime Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire says she won’t seek re-election to the House of Representatives this year. “I always said I was not going to stay in Congress forever — I will not be seeking re-election in 2024,” the six-term representative in the key general election battleground state said in …

Maryland’s newly elected Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, who many believe has ambitions for higher office, was thrust into the national spotlight on Tuesday and reacted to the first catastrophic event on his watch when a container ship toppled a bridge causing several deaths. “This morning, our state is in shock and I want to take this moment to speak directly …

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is rejecting the latest attempt by Democrats to shift scrutiny onto former President Trump’s inner circle. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the top Democrat on the committee, led a letter to Comer on Tuesday calling for a hearing into allegations of “apparent influence peddling and quid pro quo deals” by Trump’s son-in-law and former …

A new national poll indicates that Republicans are more enthusiastic about former President Trump returning to the White House than Democrats are about President Biden serving another four years in office. But Trump stirs more anger and fear from Democrats than Biden does from Republicans, according to the findings in an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey. Fifty-four …