Matthew Choi, The Texas Tribune President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are separately heading to Texas border towns on Thursday in competing visits ahead of the March 5 primary. Biden will meet with U.S. Border Patrol and local law enforcement in Brownsville, while Trump will be about 300 …

Kelan Lyons, NC Newsline In 1968, days after the Ku Klux Klan marched through Black neighborhoods in Benson following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., five young Black adolescents tried to burn down the Klan’s meeting hall in the Johnston County town. The fire did not travel past the …

Jimmy Williams Ronna McDaniel, the current head of the Republican National Committee (RNC), has announced her decision to step down from her role on March 8. This comes after former President Donald Trump endorsed new leadership for the RNC. In her statement, McDaniel explained her decision, saying, “I have decided …

Jon Queally, Common Dreams Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said Election Day in November this year will end up being a “judgement day” for his political opponents if he wins and vowed mass deportations on a scale never seen in the United States. As part of a rambling and bizarre …

Yiqing Wang, Michigan Advance Despite losses in early primaries and low poll numbers in her home state, Nikki Haley projected confidence and determination during her “Beast of the Southeast” bus tour in South Carolina, holding four rallies in two days earlier this month and attacking both President Joe Biden and …

Abraham Kenmore, SC Daily Gazette Former President Donald Trump won an expected blowout victory over former S.C. governor Nikki Haley Saturday in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary. The Associated Press called the race at 7 p.m. with zero percent of the precincts reporting. When state election officials had counted …

Jacob Fischler, Georgia Recorder The Biden administration will impose a new round of economic sanctions targeting Russian fuel exports and military-industry imports, the Treasury Department announced Friday. Coming one week after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in the custody of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government and one day short …

A New York judge has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay approximately $454 million in penalties as part of the ruling in his civil business fraud trial. This substantial figure includes around $355 million in disgorgement, a term for returning ill-gotten gains, along with over $98 million in prejudgment …

Jacob Fischler, New Jersey Monitor Former President Donald Trump called on Alabama lawmakers Friday to “find an immediate solution” to remedy a state Supreme Court ruling that threatened the availability of in vitro fertilization, and national Republicans running for Congress sought to distance themselves from the Alabama decision as well. …

The judge overseeing a fraud case against Donald Trump swiftly dismissed a plea from his lawyer, Clifford S. Robert, to delay the enforcement of a monumental $350 million judgment. With pre-judgment interest, the judgment now exceeds $450 million. This legal battle, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, has …

Brandon Tensley, Capital B Originally published by The 19th Kym Smith is passionate about a wide range of causes, from pushing for South Carolina public schools to include Black history in their curricula to bringing adequate health care to Black communities. But rarely, if ever, does Republican presidential candidate Nikki …

Anna Liz Nichols, Michigan Advance Vice President Kamala Harris thanked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other Michigan leaders during a visit Thursday for all they’ve done to maintain the right to abortion in Michigan, but cautioned that nobody should get too comfortable in the fight for reproductive health care access. …

Jimmy Williams Donald Trump’s legal team has requested a 30-day delay in enforcing the recent civil fraud case ruling, which imposed a hefty fine of over $350 million on the former president and his company. The ruling, handed down by New York Judge Arthur Engoron, also temporarily banned Trump from …

Trial attorneys in the U.S. frequently stop potential jurors from serving on cases based on their stated biases, but U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indicated on Tuesday that he was disturbed by a case out of Missouri in which three people were eliminated from a jury after expressing homophobic …

Jennifer Shutt, Michigan Advance The Biden administration on Tuesday again urged U.S. House Republican leaders to hold an up-or-down vote on military assistance for Ukraine and said a new sanctions package against Russia is on the way, citing the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as placing new pressure …