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Political contributions to a committee supporting the reelection campaign of suspended Miami Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla came to a halt and legal bills spiked after he was arrested

The Tallahassee NAACP and civil rights attorney Ben Crump are asking authorities to drop felony voter fraud charges against a 69-year-old Black woman who was arrested last month as part of a Florida elections investigation.

Political contributions to a committee supporting the reelection campaign of suspended Miami Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla came to a halt and legal bills spiked after he was arrested

Since the self-crowned “exclusively industrial” city was nearly abolished 12 years ago as too corrupt, an LAist review found good government improvements, persistent environmental problems and a plan to dramatically grow a residential population.

The special counsel’s office is also concerned about Trump’s use of social media and wants protection for jurors

The cultural moviegoing event of the year tops the DVD releases for the week of Oct. 17 "Barbie": Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) leave Barbie Land and discover

Politicians like Bob Menendez might not be proud of the accusations they face, but there’s an attitude of ‘that’s what we do in New Jersey’

Several defendants in the Georgia election interference case have been approached about their interest in accepting plea deals, as the Fulton County district attorney seeks to pare back the pool of defendants and pick up cooperators ahead of potential trials, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Say what you will about Donald Trump, he has not lost his capacity to surprise. Trump’s declaration of allegiance to New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez caught me unawares. I used to think Trump and the Republican Party he leads were blindly partisan. Now I discover they’re blindly bipartisan when it comes to support for political corruption.Like an idiot, I worried that Senator Chuck Schumer’s tepid response to the indictment of Menendez would be a gift to Trump. “Bob Me...

On a rainy weekday afternoon, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin bounded onto a makeshift stage at a local firehouse here to rally turnout for legislative elections that could deliver his party full control of Virginia and cement his reputation as a national GOP leader.