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Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. declined on Wednesday to recuse himself from two cases arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol after reports that flags displayed outside his houses appeared to support the “Stop the Steal” movement. In letters to Democratic members of Congress who had demanded his recusal, Justice Alito said that the flags, at his home in Virginia and a beach house in New Jersey, were flown by his wife, Martha-Ann. “My wife is fond of flying flags,” the justice...

Asian Americans overwhelmingly support teaching historical topics like slavery, racism, and segregation in public schools but strongly oppose colleges using race and ethnicity in admissions, according to a new survey. Why it matters: This data is a rare look at the nuances Asian Americans have around race and education four years after the pandemic, when the nation saw surges in anti-Asian hate and a racial awakening sparked by the murder of George Floyd. The big picture: The broad...

In late November of 2022, Sen. Rick Scott received a text from an aide to Mitch McConnell. In the new Congress, the terse message informed him, Scott would no longer be a member of the powerful Commerce Committee. It had been a bad month for Senate Republicans, many of whom blamed their poor performance and Democratic gains on Scott, who was chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. McConnell and his top aides questioned Scott’s fundraising prowess, his candidate recruitment,...

President Biden predicted during a speech Wednesday that the next president will be able to appoint two new Supreme Court justices, while warning against former President Trump winning another term. “Guess what, the next president, they’re going to be able to appoint a couple of justices and I’ll be damned—” he said at a rally in Philadelphia. The president campaigned at Girard College for the launch of Black Voters for Biden-Harris, an effort intended to mobilize support in the...

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have discussed a possible advisory role for the Tesla leader should the presumptive Republican nominee reclaim the White House, the latest sign that the once-frosty relationship between the two men has thawed.

Charges were dropped against Scottie Scheffler 12 days after the world’s top golfer was arrested while trying to drive around the scene of a fatal crash on his way to the 2024 PGA Championship in Louisville, Kentucky. Scheffler, who wasn’t required to attend the hearing, was represented by his attorney. Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell asked for the charges to be dropped with prejudice, which both the judge and Scheffler’s defense attorney accepted.  “Mr. Scheffler’s...

President Biden claimed twice on Wednesday that he was involved in the Civil Rights Movement as he courted black voters in battleground Pennsylvania — despite admitting in the past that he was not. “I got involved as a kid in the Civil Rights Movement,” Biden, 81, told a group of black officials and local residents at a Philadelphia restaurant and jazz bar, repeating himself later in the talk and specifying 1969 as the date his supposed activism began. “Like I said, in 1969, I got...

Former President Donald Trump’s Super PAC will be launching a website for “content creators” on TikTok and elsewhere ahead of the debates and conventions to use to help make their videos and that will have talking points, clips, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to create scripts for the creators, the Daily Caller has first learned. MAGA Inc., which serves as the main Super PAC supporting Trump, is looking to build a group of independent digital creators online to amplify tested...