Tennessee Republican lawmakers unveiled new congressional maps Wednesday that would eliminate the state's only Democratic-held seat, acting days after a Supreme Court ruling cleared the path for partisan redistricting.
The Trump administration's new national counterterrorism strategy explicitly names "radically pro-gender" and anarchist groups as domestic terrorism threats, marking the first time a White House counterterrorism plan has directly addressed the wave of violence carried out by transgender-identifying individuals against Christian targets.
The FBI raided the office of Virginia Democratic state Sen. L. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth on Wednesday as part of a federal corruption and illegal marijuana sale investigation, according to federal law enforcement sources.
California's state government has funneled at least $41 million in combined state and federal grants to the Council on American-Islamic Relations' California affiliate over the last five years, according to a new investigation, despite the group's documented ties to Hamas financing networks and incendiary rhetoric from its own leadership.
State Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Democrat seeking to flip one of the most competitive congressional seats in the country, is facing renewed scrutiny this week over a 2021 video showing her reciting a Muslim prayer on the Iowa Senate floor, and a separate interview in which she described Iowa as insufficiently diverse and implied constituents harbor "horrible animosity" toward Muslims.
