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Daily Beast: The Department of Justice under Donald Trump obtained months worth of phone records of several Washington Post journalists who covered Russian election interference, the  Post reports. BREAKING: Trump Justice Dept. sought the phone records of three Washington Post reporters for calls they made during three months in 2017 while reporting on Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election, DOJ says. https://t.co/L2HmR5DtXb— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 8, 2021 Two reporters for the pap...

Trump administration secretly obtained more than three months of phone records of journalists who reported on Russian meddling in the 2016 election Trumps DOJ secretly received phone records of three Washington Post journalists -  Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller and Adam Entous The Justice Department said it had followed established procedures to obtain more than three months of records The reporters wrote a story suggesting Jeff Sessions discussed the campaign with the Russian ambassador They a...

Alabama AG Steve Marshall pulls out of National Attorneys General Association Updated 7:23 AM; Yellowhammer News reported the decision on Monday. Mike Lewis, spokesman for Marshall, confirmed the decision to AL.com but had no further comment. According to Yellowhammer, Marshall pulled out of the organization because he said it has moved too far to the left in its policies. “I can’t justify spending taxpayer dollars to fund an organization that seems to be going further and further left,”...

Trump endorses Republican ally Mo Brooks for Alabama Senate Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed Rep. Mo Brooks’ campaign for US Senate in Alabama, supporting the controversial GOP congressman who stood by him during two impeachments and led the House effort to object to the 2020 election results. “Few Republicans have as much COURAGE and FIGHT as Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks,” Trump said in a statement. Serving in his sixth term in the House, Brooks is seeking the Senate ...

Gaetz offered a different line of attack in a Monday opinion piece for the In the piece, Gaetz broadly defends his past sexual lifestyle without delving into specifics—and notes that he previously defended former Democratic representative Katie Hill when she was caught up in her own sex-based ethics scandal involving a staffer and her ex-husband (which ultimately resulted in her resignation). “My lifestyle of yesteryear may be different from how I live now, but it was not and is not illeg...

The Senate has voted to confirm Merrick Garland as Attorney General. The vote was 70-30. Garland thus failed to win a majority of Republican Senators. Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton were among those who voted no. Cruz explained that despite Garland’s reputation for integrity, he had “refused to make clear that he would stand against the politicization of the department, which we saw during the Obama-Biden years.” Cotton was concerned

In a long, rambling and inaccurate statement, Rep. Richmond suggested that, not only is Jeff Sessions a racist, but also the entire GOP.

Pennsylvania USA Today Network Editorial Board Should politicians vote their conscience or vote the will of the people who elected them? Our editorial board wrestled with that question this week in the wake of Washington County Republican Party chairman Dave Balls blunt response to Senator Pat Toomeys vote to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. Ball told a Pittsburgh-area TV station "We did not send (Toomey) there to vote his conscience. We did not send him th...

Manchin is reportedly undecided on whether or not to confirm Bidens interior secretary nominee.

Jan 15, 2021 Texas A&M says they began investigating archaeology professor Filipe Castro after receiving numerous complaints about his behavior in the class. According to the Bryan-College Station Eagle newspaper, the investigation found that Castro, “[was] demeaning to students who did not agree with your stances on religious matters; made unprofessional comments about current politicians that had no relation to the subject of the class; and made inappropriate, unprofessional and disrespect...