Washington — The nation’s most celebrated and decorated gymnasts offered harrowing testimony before senators on Wednesday about the sexual abuse they suffered by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, arguing the failure of institutions like the FBI to immediately investigate allegations of abuse allowed his misconduct to continue unanswered while …
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A federal judge on Wednesday imposed sanctions against one-time Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell and other attorneys who filed a lawsuit in Michigan seeking to overturn President Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. Judge Linda Parker said the attorneys who filed the case failed to do their due diligence to …
Read More »When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s resignation becomes effective in two weeks, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul will replace him as the state’s first female governor. Cuomo, a Democrat, announced his impending resignation Tuesday, with his eventual impeachment seeming all but certain in the wake of a New York attorney general report …
Read More »ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s online fundraising platform, has stopped processing donations for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. “You have attempted to make a contribution to a fundraising page that has no active recipients: either the page’s owner has removed all committees or organizations from the page, or we have concluded …
Read More »The Texas Legislature’s special session remains stymied by the departure of several state House Democrats to Washington, D.C., whose absence left Republicans without a quorum. But while the House’s work has been frozen, the GOP-controlled Senate has been working away, passing legislation during Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s special session. Nine …
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President Biden is nominating Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve as ambassador to India, the White House announced on Friday. If confirmed by the Senate, Garcetti will be heading to India amid a recent surge in coronavirus cases. In a statement posted to Twitter, Garcetti said he was “honored …
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In an interview with The New York Times published last week, Jonathan Van Ness revealed he is HIV positive. The “Queer Eye” star shared that he was diagnosed with HIV at 25 and decided to open up about it in his new memoir because “these are issues that need to …
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