Kari Lake struggles to win over her GOP skeptics: From the Politics Desk

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, correspondent Vaughn Hillyard and campaign embed Alex Tabet report from Arizona on Kari Lake’s attempts to win over […]

Israeli delegation visit to Washington to be rescheduled amid diplomatic strains

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. House Republicans plan next steps in twin impeachment inquiries 02:50 Gov. Walz: Uncommitted voters were expressing ‘frustration,’ but ‘will come home’ to Biden 06:57 Now Playing Israeli delegation visit to Washington to be rescheduled amid diplomatic strains 03:40 UP NEXT […]

House Republicans plan next steps in twin impeachment inquiries

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing House Republicans plan next steps in twin impeachment inquiries 02:50 UP NEXT Gov. Walz: Uncommitted voters were expressing ‘frustration,’ but ‘will come home’ to Biden 06:57 Israeli delegation visit to Washington to be rescheduled amid diplomatic strains 03:40 […]

Bills targeting book bans raise concerns about the penalties libraries could face

Bills against book bans are gaining traction in state legislatures around the country — and with them have come worries about the potentially negative impact on libraries themselves. The number of banned books across the country saw an almost two-thirds increase in 2023 from the previous year, to more than 4,200 titles, according to a […]

Air Force Academy Paid Over $250K to Spy On Cadets, Faculty for ‘Extremism’

U.S. Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons January 6 triggered a widespread movement within the Department of Defense to identify any “right-wing extremists” within the ranks. The Secretary of Defense ordered an “extremism down day,” and studies were commissioned to discover how deep “extremism” had rooted itself in the military. Hundreds of thousands of […]

The Many Ways a Porous Border Means Crime Without Boundaries

JamesReyes Via Wikimedia By James Varney and Abigail Degnan for RealClearInvestigations When President Biden’s supporters attacked him for describing the man who allegedly murdered Georgia co-ed Laken Reilly as an “illegal,” they shined a light on one of the most contested words in American politics. The progressive push to describe border crossers as undocumented or […]

South Carolina to use ‘unconstitutional’ congressional map after Supreme Court silence

South Carolina will use a congressional map a federal court ruled was “unconstitutional” in this year’s election, following uncertainty around the timing of the Supreme Court’s review of a district that a lower court deemed was racially gerrymandered. Republican lawmakers shuffled thousands of Black voters out of the state’s 1st District, represented by GOP Rep. […]

Trump attends wake for fallen NYPD officer as he ramps up rhetoric on crime

After he attended the wake Thursday of slain New York police officer Jonathan Diller, former President Donald Trump expressed outrage over the killing and used the opportunity to tout his position on the need to curb crime. “What happened is such a sad, sad event — such a horrible thing and it’s happening all too […]