• CNN

    Conservatives deal another blow to Speaker Johnson, defeating FISA rule after Trump push

    House conservatives revolted against GOP leadership and defeated a key vote on the floor Wednesday, the latest blow to Speaker Mike Johnson that comes after former President Donald Trump called on Republicans to kill a controversial surveillance law. Trump had urged House Republicans to reject a reauthorization of the law, known as FISA, ahead of the key procedural vote on Wednesday, adding to headaches for GOP leaders who have struggled to build support for the legislation, but were still...

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    • WLNS

    East Lansing Fire Dept. fights fire with fire

    Fire officials were out in the Lansing area today with lit torches in hand. Normally we expect them to put out fires, but today, the goal was starting them.

  • House Conservatives Deal a New Blow to Speaker Johnson

    Yuval RosenbergApril 10, 2024The far-right revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson got dialed up a notch Wednesday as a group of 19 House

  • Bolton: Trump 'Has Simple-Minded Ideas About How the World Works'

    Former National Security Adviser John Bolton said Wednesday on MSNBC's "Deadline" that former President Donald Trump had “simple-minded ideas about how the world works." | Clips

  • Trump’s federal abortion dodge draws fire from both sides

    Former President Trump declined to take a position on a potential federal abortion ban Monday and instead acknowledged the issue is being left to the states as he looks to navigate the politically fraught issue ahead of November. Trump’s lack of an explicit endorsement drew criticism from some on the right, including a prominent anti-abortion

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  • 'Audacious': Expert stunned by Trump's latest SCOTUS argument for presidential immunity

    Former President Donald Trump's latest filing in the presidential immunity case that will be heard before the Supreme Court next week has shocked one legal expert for its "audacious" claims. Trump's attorneys Monday filed a 33-page response to special counsel Jack Smith's argument that the former president is not protected from prosecution by blanket immunity and therefore can be tried on election interference charges in Washington D.C. federal court. In this new filing, Trump's attorneys build...

  • 'Trump has a big beautiful plane': Spokesperson explains strategy to deal with trials

    Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the former president was going to win the 2024 election despite his trials because he has a "big beautiful plane." Leavitt made the remarks Sunday on Fox & Friends after Donald Trump held a Saturday night rally in Pennsylvania. "The Americans have never had a stronger contrast than the one they will have on the ballot before them on November the 5th," Leavitt told Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy. "President Trump has never been in a...

  • Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Media's failure to deal with Trump is rivaled by the courts

    Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. The Hill: Trump says federal abortion ban is not needed ‘because we broke Roe v. Wade’ “Because we don’t need it any longer. Because we broke Roe v. Wade, and we did something that nobody thought was possible,” Trump said. “We gave it back to the states. And the states are very working very brilliantly, in some cases conservative, in some...

  • Democrats trying to keep Trump off ballot shocked GOP would return fire

    Democrats are somehow routinely shocked when their partisan power grabs are met with GOP retaliation despite the Democratic Party coming out on the worse end of these exchanges several times in the past decade. The GOP retaliation now is taking the form of Ohio and Alabama threatening to exclude President Joe Biden from the ballot […]