‘Every state is a border state’: Glenn Youngkin sounds alarm on ending Title 42

FILE – Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks with reporters after touring a Loudoun County elections facility at the County Office of Elections in Leesburg, Va., Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Youngkin called Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, for expanding nuclear power generation in Virginia, reevaluating a recent clean energy law celebrated by environmentalists, and restoring greater authority…

Pair from Wisconsin and North Carolina charged in Ring doorbell ‘swatting’ ruse

FILE – A Ring doorbell camera is displayed outside a home in Wolcott, Conn., on July 16, 2019. Two Amazon-owned companies — Ring and Hollywood studio MGM — are teaming up to create a TV show in the mold of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” using viral footage from Ring’s doorbell and smart-home cameras. The half-hour…

‘Childishly threw me under the bus’: MTG and Boebert trade barbs over McCarthy

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., left, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., right, scream “Build the Wall” as President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP) Evelyn Hockstein/AP ‘Childishly threw me under the bus’:…

Youngkin muses about reviving Commanders stadium incentive plan

Washington Commanders logo and Glenn Youngkin. AP Youngkin muses about reviving Commanders stadium incentive plan Ryan King December 19, 08:14 PM December 19, 08:14 PM Video Embed Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) is seeking to revive consideration of efforts to entice the development of a new Washington Commanders stadium in Virginia after a similar initiative crumbled…

Boebert says she won’t support McCarthy unless there’s a check in place to remove speaker

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who is in an unexpected tight race with Democratic challenger Adam Frisch, arrives to meet with fellow Republicans behind closed doors as Republicans hold its leadership candidate forum, where everyone running for a post must make their case to the membership, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. (AP…

Defrocked priest Frank Pavone speaks out after Vatican dismissal

FILE – Frank Pavone, head of Priests for Life, gives the Homily during a mass at Ave Maria University’s Oratory in Naples, Fla., on March 31, 2009 to recognize the fourth anniversary of Terri Schiavo’s death. The Vatican has defrocked an anti-abortion U.S. priest, Frank Pavone, for what it said were “blasphemous communications on social…

McConnell lays blame for Jan. 6 at Trump’s feet: ‘The entire nation knows who is responsible’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a floor speech Thursday that Democrats are trying to shut everyone else out of the political process. (AP File) J. Scott Applewhite McConnell lays blame for Jan. 6 at Trump’s feet: ‘The entire nation knows who is responsible’ Brady Knox December 19, 06:26 PM December 19, 06:26 PM…

Jan. 6 committee tears into Ivanka Trump for not being ‘forthcoming,’ memory woes

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner arrive for the funeral of Ivana Trump, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in New York. Ivana Trump, an icon of 1980s style, wealth and excess and a businesswoman who helped her husband build an empire that launched him to the presidency, is set to be celebrated at a funeral Mass at…

Incoming committee chairs come to bat for McCarthy in speaker fight

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined at right by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, holds a news conference before the start of a hearing by a select committee appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the Jan. 6 insurrection, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. McCarthy had added Rep. Jordan to the…