Category: Politics

New York can continue to require companies with health insurance plans to cover medically necessary abortions, the state’s highest court ruled Tuesday. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany and other religious groups argued that the rule violated their religious freedoms. State financial regulators approved the policy in 2017. The state Legislature then separately codified the…

Carey, who became an advocate after his son Jonathan died while in state care, said he responded “You don’t care that my son died?” He said Parker then grabbed him by his shoulders and shoved him, causing him to stumble backward. Carey said Parker then shoved him again. “I was shocked. I couldn’t believe what…

Maryland’s Democratic Senate primary will test the power of self-funding as a congressman who’s loaned his campaign more than $61 million faces off Tuesday against a county executive who could become just the third Black woman elected to the Senate. But the race between three-term Rep. David Trone and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks…

Then, the Supreme Court intervened. By June 2023, the Supreme Court ultimately ruled against Alabama. It upheld the requirements of the Voting Rights Act under these circumstances and allowed the lower court case to move forward. But by then, the votes had been cast in the 2022 elections, and the winners were seated in the…

For more on House Republican primary infighting, watch “Inside Politics with Manu Raju” on Sunday at 8 a.m. ET and 11 a.m. ET. GOP Rep. Don Bacon has had it with the far-right of his conference. They’ve thrown out one House speaker and are trying to dump another one, all while scuttling their leadership’s agenda…

Former President Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on Democrats on Saturday at a private luncheon hosted at his Mar-a-Lago club, during which he referred to Democrats as “running a Gestapo administration” — equating President Joe Biden’s administration to Nazi Germany, according to three attendees. The remarks were part of a larger tirade, during which…

Kinzinger predicts how Trump will handle potential vice presidential candidates CNN senior political commentator Adam Kinzinger discusses how he thinks Donald Trump will approach selecting a running mate for the 2024 presidential election.  Read the full article here

As negotiators meet in Cairo on Saturday, US and Israeli officials say any potential agreement on a framework that would pair a temporary ceasefire with a release of hostages in Gaza would likely be followed by continued negotiations over the finer details of the deal. A final deal between the two parties is expected to take…

President Joe Biden’s support for the Israeli military offensive in Gaza mixed with student anger over police crackdowns on anti-war campus protests are complicating the work of Democratic youth groups trying to engage classmates and other Generation Z voters ahead of this year’s election. “If I’m talking about electric vehicles and climate change, and then…

Former President Donald Trump delivered a bombardment of dishonesty in his interviews with Time magazine. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, made at least 32 false claims in the two April interviews that Time released this week. His serial inaccuracy spanned a wide range of subjects, including the economy, abortion, the NATO military alliance, the January…