House Democratic leaders would vote to save Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from a motion to vacate if one was brought by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)‚ the first time Democrats have made a definitive decision on how they would respond to efforts to oust the speaker. In a statement released Tuesday‚ House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and other House Democratic leaders said the time has come to “turn the page on this chapter of pro-Putin Republican obstruction” following the...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced Tuesday that House Democrats will block Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson. “We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair. If she invokes the motion‚ it will not succeed‚” Jeffries said in a statement. Greene‚ R-Ga.‚ introduced the motion to vacate‚ as it’s known‚ last month. However‚ she had thus far declined to force a vote on the resolution.

House Democratic leadership announced Tuesday that Democrats would kill an effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from his position‚ amid threats from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other hardliners. “At this moment‚ upon completion of our national security work‚ the time has come to turn the page on this chapter of Pro-Putin Republican obstruction. We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair. If she invokes the motion‚ it will not succeed‚”...

Columbia University warned protesters who breached an administrative building Tuesday that they would face expulsion as tensions over pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus continue to escalate. The big picture: Dozens of protesters barricaded entrances of a building on the Ivy League campus in Manhattan in the middle of the night after the university began suspending students for refusing to leave their on-campus encampment after school leadership imposed a deadline. What they're...

Fox News appears to be taking Hunter Biden’s lawsuit threat quite seriously. The network has quietly pulled down its six-part “mock trial” series from its digital streaming service Fox Nation after lawyers for the presidential scion warned the network of their intention to sue for defamation. Besides quietly taking down The Trial of Hunter Biden from its streamer‚ the network also deleted a promotional video promising Fox News viewers an “inside look” at the “mock trial‚” which was...

The Department of Justice will significantly loosen federal cannabis restrictions‚ marking the biggest shift in drug laws in more than half a century. The change follows a decade of seismic changes in cannabis policies across the country‚ with 24 states legalizing possession for adults — representing more than half of the U.S. population — and 38 states establishing medical marijuana programs. The DOJ’s decision was first reported by the Associated Press‚ and confirmed to POLITICO by an...

A Virginia man who &;quot;meandered&;quot; around the Capitol building after the January 6‚ 2021‚ riot has lost his $100 million lawsuit against CNN. Virginia federal judge Arenda Wright Allen‚ an appointee of former President Barack Obama‚ dismissed the case on Monday before it reached trial. Jacob Hiles‚ a charter boat captain from Virginia Beach‚ alleged that CNN defamed him in an online article published on October 15‚ 2021‚ about rioters at the Capitol building. The article's sub-headline...

The college protests across the nation saw a slew of headline-grabbing developments on Tuesday‚ including the takeover of a building at Columbia University‚ a new House-wide effort by Republicans to investigate antisemitism and a major victory for activists at Brown University.   The big success of the day for pro-Palestinian protesters came out of Brown‚ where President Christina Paxson announced Tuesday that students will end their encampment after an agreement was reached between...

Jareh Sebastian Dalke disabled the location tracking system on his car then drove north from his home in Colorado Springs to Denver's Union Station. He made sure to leave without his phone. The 31-year-old former US National Security Agency (NSA) employee parked several blocks away‚ walking to the train station with a laptop‚ a memory card‚ a gun and a note with handwritten instructions for his clandestine mission. Dalke had spent several months communicating via email and transmitting...

A top House Republican is accusing special counsel Jack Smith of election interference as the prosecutor leads two criminal cases against former President Donald Trump. House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) announced on Tuesday that she had filed an ethics complaint against Smith with the Office of Professional Responsibility at the Department of Justice (DOJ). In her letter‚ which Stefanik posted to X‚ the congresswoman requested that Office of Professional...