New York Attorney General Letitia James‚ who won a civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump‚ has a net worth of about $2.7 million‚ her most recent financial disclosure statement shows. But social media posts baselessly claim she’s worth $15 million. The claim appears to come from a website that says it “cannot guarantee its accuracy.” Letitia James‚ New York state’s attorney general‚ has a personal net worth of about $2.7 million‚ according to her most...

Anti-abortion advocates worked for five decades to topple Roe v. Wade. They’re now laying the groundwork for a yearslong fight to curb in vitro fertilization. Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that frozen embryos are children‚ the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups have been strategizing how to convince not just GOP officials but evangelicals broadly that they should have serious moral concerns about fertility treatments like IVF and that access to them...

What a second term could bring Despite polls that consistently showed Donald Trump running a competitive race in 2016‚ his winning the presidency came as a shock to most of official Washington‚ the media‚ and other “sense-making” institutions in this country. The sight of such a norm-breaking figure taking the highest office in the land seemed to unscrew the loosest screws. Trump’s behavior — whether throwing a Starburst candy at Angela Merkel (“Don’t say I never give you anything...

Who’s to blame for the GOP’s dwindling House majority? It depends on whom you ask.  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) made waves last month when she pointed fingers at a pair of fellow Republicans who decided recently to quit Congress before their terms were up‚ reducing the party’s already slim advantage to a hairline one-vote margin. Yet Greene declined to mention a third lawmaker who dashed for the exits prematurely: former Speaker Kevin McCarthy...

Biden is in campaign mode‚ and the president wants voters to know he understands housing is out of control. Over the last month‚ Biden has ramped up his bully pulpit focus on the housing crisis. In his State of the Union address‚ the president pledged new tax credits for first-time homeowners and to “crack down on big landlords” who price-fix rents. His new budget includes proposals to expand vouchers and housing supply‚ and he gave a second speech ...

In a heartwarming tale of compassion and kindness‚ Kevin Cherry‚ the owner of Outer Banks restaurant Mama Kwans‚ went above and beyond to fulfill the final wish of a dying woman‚ Heather Bowers‚ who resided six hours away in West Virginia. Source: Restaurant Owner Drops Everything‚ Drives Nearly 6 Hours To Fulfill Dying Woman’s Last Wish Touching.

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