Senate Confirmation Appears Likely for Two More Judges Hostile Toward Abortion
Chad A. Readler, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, is sworn in to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on judicial nominations on October 10, 2018.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two appeals court nominees with strong anti-choice histories are likely to become the…
GOP Candidate Sues Pennsylvania Newspaper Over Sexual Misconduct Allegation
Matt Rourke/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The fight to fill an open congressional seat in eastern Pennsylvania took another nasty turn this week when Republican candidate Marty Nothstein sued the Allentown Morning Call over the newspaper’s reporting on an allegation that Nothstein engaged in sexual misconduct nearly two decades ago.…
Facebook Launches Its Biggest Purge of Spam Accounts Ever
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook shut down 559 pages and 251 accounts on Thursday that violated the company’s rules by spamming users with partisan news, the social network’s largest purge to date. The accounts, all based in the United States, circulated both far-left and far-right content. Each had…
Georgia’s Republican Candidate for Governor Is Blocking 53,000 Voter Registrations
Secretary of State Brian Kemp declares victory in the Republican primary for governor in July 2018 in Athens, Georgia.Jessica McGowan/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tens of thousands of would-be voters in Georgia have had their voter registrations put on hold, threatening their ability to cast a ballot in…
Today Is a Make or Break Day for Beto O’Rourke
Bill Clark/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There are no unimportant days during campaign season, but some days are more significant than others. This year, Tuesday October 9 is one of them. When the dust settles on November 6, at least a few campaigns might look back in anguish…
This Anti-Ted Cruz Ad Probably Won’t Flip Many Votes, But It’s Pretty Funny
FTC PAC/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, running for reelection after a bruising 2016 presidential bid, has embraced a campaign slogan that could also be used to sell trucks or, I don’t know, asphalt—he’s “Tough as Texas.” This was a decent, if characteristically overwrought, persona…