With two weeks until the money runs out, Congress grinds to halt on spending bills
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 14, 2023, as action in the chamber on spending bills got sidetracked ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown. Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — Amid rising tensions and an approaching hard deadline, the U.S. House…
Judge rules Trump’s 2020 Georgia racketeering case and 16 others severed from October trial
Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee ruled Sept. 14 that Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell will be tried separately from Donald Trump and 16 other co-defendants in the 2020 presidential election interference case. File Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool A Fulton County judge ruled Thursday that 17 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, will…
Planned Parenthood Will Resume Abortion Services in Wisconsin. That Doesn’t Mean Everything Is Fixed.
Harm Venhuizen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Monday, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will resume abortion care for the first time in over a year. The organization will start fielding calls and emails for appointments at two locations, the Water Street Health Center in…
New Gun Charges Are Hunter Biden’s Latest Legal Problem
Hunter Biden leaves federal in Wilmington on July 26, 2023.Saquan Stimpson/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged Hunter Biden with lying about his drug use when he bought a gun in 2018. The three-count indictment is the latest twist in…
How Right-Wing Groups Are Plotting To Implement Trump’s Authoritarianism
A representative of Project 2025, a conservative operation preparing for a possible Trump presidency, was recruiting supporters at the Iowa State Fair last month. Charlie Neibergall/AP Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and…
Wisconsin Republicans Are Taking Desperate Steps to Subvert Fair Elections in 2024
Meagan Wolfe, left, and Janet ProtasiewiczMother Jones illustration; AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, Republicans in the Wisconsin state senate voted to oust the nonpartisan administrator of the state’s election commission, Meagan Wolfe, in a bid to give election deniers and conspiracy…