Monthly Archives: August 2021

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top aide Melissa DeRosa has resigned.

Paul Whelan, a US citizen detained in Russia, has been released from solitary confinement and was able to speak with his parents, his brother David Whelan told CNN Sunday.

An assistant to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who until now has only been referred to as "Executive Assistant 1," has publicly identified herself and detailed her claims of sexual harassment by the embattled Democratic governor.

Mainstream Democrats have been winning a lot of big primaries in 2021. Their latest win came on Tuesday in the primary for Ohio's 11th Congressional District special election: local legislator and party chair Shontel Brown -- backed by South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn and 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton -- defeated Nina Turner, former co-chair

Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, who captured national attention for her high-profile protest of a lapse in the federal eviction moratorium amid the Covid-19 pandemic, urged tenants on Sunday to apply for local assistance in case courts strike down the latest ban on certain evictions issued by the Biden administration.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin said Sunday that former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen revealed in testimony this weekend "frightening" information about what had occurred at the Justice Department during the waning days of the Trump administration.

As the Senate prepares to vote on the final passage of the massive $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, members of the cryptocurrency space -- those in favor of using blockchain technology for online transactions -- are ramping up advocacy efforts against a last-minute cryptocurrency tax provision tacked onto the bill.

Two top former Justice Department officials provided interviews to the Senate Judiciary Committee and provided detailed accounts of a tumultuous period in late December and early January during which a senior Justice Department lawyer sought to deploy the department's resources in support of false voting fraud claims by former President Donald Trump, according to a

The legal team for Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) sought to discredit some of the women who have accused him of sexual harassment at a press conference.

Former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have refunded nearly $13 million to donors in the first half of the year, after deploying fundraising tactics in the 2020 election that duped donors into giving more money than they intended or believed they were, The New York Times reported.