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Instead of impeachment, Dems are using Article II challenges to impede Trump this time

Democrats tenaciously working to thwart the second Trump administration seemingly have thrown out their playbook from the president’s first administration — abandoning repeated attempts to impeach President Donald Trump in favor of broadening their focus on leveraging Article II of the Constitution to impede MAGA policies. Democrats, since the early …

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Virginia AG candidate once referenced putting ‘two bullets to the head’ of GOP leader, texts show

Virginia Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones once remarked on shooting the Virginia House speaker in texts with another lawmaker, the latest example of charged political rhetoric some have called the politics of “rage.” Texts obtained by Fox News Digital Friday showed an August 2022 conversation between Jones — then …

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Man linked to Hamas attack on Israel indicted in Louisiana for conspiring to support terrorist group

A suspect in Hamas’ October 2023 terror attack against Israel that sparked a two-year war between the two sides has been formally charged in federal court. Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi, who has been living in Louisiana, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Lafayette for conspiring to support a …

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Jones and Miyares clash over murder texts as Dem repeatedly invokes Trump at heated, high-stakes debate

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones defended himself from questions about controversial texts envisioning the murder of the Old Dominion’s then-Republican House Speaker. And Attorney General Jason Miyares questioned Jones’ ability to govern while Jones repeatedly invoked President Donald Trump and salivated over seeing him in …

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Alabama death row inmate insists innocence, urges governor to meet him before nitrogen-gas execution

An Alabama death row inmate, who insists he is an “innocent man,” asked Republican Gov. Kay Ivey to meet with him before the state puts him to death later this week. Anthony Boyd, 53, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday evening by nitrogen gas at the William C. Holman …

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Judge blocks part of Texas law that limits campus protests after dark: '1st Amendment does not have a bedtime'

A federal judge has temporarily blocked key parts of Texas’ new law limiting expression on campuses after dark, preventing the University of Texas System from enforcing a ban on overnight expression as well as restrictions on inviting outside speakers and using amplified sounds during the last two weeks of a …

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Former New York state trooper sentenced to 6 months in prison after faking his own shooting: 'disgraceful'

A former New York state trooper was sentenced on Wednesday to six months behind bars after he shot himself in the leg and falsely claimed that he was wounded by an unknown gunman. Thomas Mascia pleaded guilty in May to falsely reporting an incident, tampering with physical evidence and official …

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Virginia parents crush fundraising goal for trans locker room fight after judge ordered massive bond

FIRST ON FOX: Parents from Northern Virginia late Wednesday night surpassed the massive $125,000 bond that a judge ordered them to pay in order to stay in court and defend their sons, who were suspended and found responsible for sexual harassment after objecting to a transgender classmate using their male-only …

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Trump scores legal win, getting lawsuit against Iowa pollster, Des Moines Register moved to state court

FIRST ON FOX — President Donald Trump notched a legal victory Friday in his lawsuit against Iowa pollsterJ. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register, and the case will now land in Iowa State Court after an appeals court sided with the president and ruled a lower court had overstepped. …

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