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Jesse Jackson Jr. explores return to Congress years after leaving office in disgrace

Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is eyeing a political comeback a decade after serving time for a federal conspiracy conviction in 2013. According to multiple reports, Jackson Jr., the son of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson Sr., is meeting with residents and community leaders about a potential campaign run for his old seat in Illinois’ 2nd Congressional District. Supporters of the 60-year-old political figure are telling him to “Run Jesse Run,” as the seat will soon be vacant; current U.S. […]

todayJuly 9, 2025

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Proud Boys leader pardoned by Trump wants to return to scene of the crime as member of Congress

A leader of the white nationalist group the Proud Boys — who was convicted for actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — is now eyeing a return to the scene of the crime. After being pardoned by President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio was released from prison, where he was serving a 22-year sentence for convictions for multiple felonies, including seditious conspiracy to “oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential […]

todayFebruary 13, 2025

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Trump to be sentenced in hush money case, days before return to White House

 In a singular moment in U.S. history, President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Like so much else in the criminal case and the current American political landscape, the scenario set to unfold in an austere Manhattan courtroom was unimaginable only a few years ago. A state judge is to say what consequences, if any, the country’s former and soon-to-be leader will face for felonies that a jury found he committed. […]

todayJanuary 10, 2025

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Hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions are in limbo as a DC court awaits Trump’s White House return

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the largest prosecution in Justice Department history — with reams of evidence, harrowing videos and hundreds of convictions of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now Donald Trump’s return to power has thrown into question the future of the more than 1,500 federal cases brought over the last four years. Jan. 6 trials, guilty pleas and sentencings have continued chugging along in Washington’s federal court despite Trump’s promise to pardon rioters, whom he has called “political prisoners” and “hostages” […]

todayJanuary 6, 2025

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Trump’s White House return poised to tangle health care safety net

Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and looming return to the White House will likely bring changes that scale back the nation’s public health insurance programs — increasing the uninsured rate while imposing new barriers to abortion and other reproductive care. The reverberations will be felt far beyond Washington, D.C., and could include an erosion of the Affordable Care Act’s consumer protections, the imposition of work requirements in Medicaid and funding cuts to the safety net insurance, and challenges to […]

todayNovember 7, 2024