Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the oldest member of the Senate, has said that he worries Iowa may elect a Democratic governor because that person would pick his replacement if he dies while in office, amid renewed attention on fitness-related concerns due to Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Kentucky) prolonged absence from the Senate. “At 93 years of age, I don’t know how many more groups of…
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A House Democrat has filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, calling him the “most impeachable president” in U.S. history and accusing him of high crimes and misdemeanors ranging from his war on Iran to his schemes to enrich himself and his allies while in office. House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Steve Cohen, of Tennessee, introduced 26 impeachment articles on…
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Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the lone Democrat on Thursday to help Republicans in the US Senate vote down a resolution to end the “illegal” war of choice launched against Iran by President Donald Trump earlier this year. In the 49-50 vote, the Republican majority blocked the latest resolution calling for an end to the war. While four Republicans — Susan Collins of Maine…
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On Tuesday, family members and witnesses of five people fatally shot by federal immigration agents testified at a public forum organized by congressional Democrats, calling for accountability for the killings. Family members of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Renee Good, Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, and Ruben Ray Martinez – all killed by ICE agents since 2025 – gave statements, as did a witness in…
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Republican Sen. Roger Marshall (Kansas) sued hundreds of his patients for outstanding debts and had dozens of them arrested over the course of his decades-long career as an obstetrician-gynecologist, new reporting reveals. Court records show that Marshall, who is running for reelection this fall, sued over 700 of his patients for debts, according to The New York Times. His practice…
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President Donald Trump made nearly 30,000 stock trades since his return to office, marking a far higher volume of trades than all 535 members of Congress combined, a new Bloomberg analysis finds. Between his inauguration in January 2025 and the end of June, Trump and his team made nearly 28,700 trades, his financial disclosures show. That amounts to roughly 80 trades per market day for nearly…
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