Today's Top Political News Compilation - Friday, November 13, 2023 (1 Viewer)

The Supreme Court on Monday unveiled a code of conduct in an attempt to bolster the public’s confidence in the court after months of news stories alleging that some of the justices have been skirting ethics regulations.

The House is set to vote on the extension as early as Tuesday.

Four former Donald Trump loyalists who pleaded guilty in the Georgia 2020 election interference criminal case shed new light on their efforts in videotaped conversations they had with prosecutors, according to portions of those videos obtained and published by news outlets, including that the...

The results show Trump flipping four states that were crucial to Biden's 2020 victory: Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's push to oust Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed by a bipartisan vote of 209-201.

Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis told prosecutors that former President Donald Trump was "not going to leave" the White House in 2021 no matter what. As part of her plea deal, Ellis gave proffer sessions with Fulton County attorneys — confidential video interviews, portions of which were...

Judge Aileen Cannon rejects a motion by special counsel Jack Smith’s team seeking to establish December deadlines for former President Trump’s lawyers to identify the evidence they will seek to use in court.

Tim Scott's surprise departure from the presidential race was just the latest event pointing to a consolidation of the non-Trump options in the GOP primary campaign.

Paul Pelosi on Monday described on the witness stand the shocking intrusion at his and his wife Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco mansion a year ago that culminated in a brutal hammer attack that fractured his skull.

The House swore in its newest Democratic member on Monday evening, filling one of two vacant seats and bringing the party’s conference back up to 213 members for the first time in nearly six months. Rep. Gabe Amo (D-RI) was sworn in to the lower chamber after winning a special election last week...

Jason Donner said in the suit that his dismissal was part of a "purge" of journalists who publicly stated the truth: Donald Trump lost.

A small group of Republicans joined Democrats in pushing off the effort to impeach the secretary.

Two legitimate photographs were used to make it appear as if Obama bowed to Khamenei.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), an intergovernmental forum of 21 economies throughout the Asia-Pacific region, is set for San Francisco.

The Minnesota Democrat is taking aim at a $320 million package of bomb equipment that the Biden administration wants to provide to Israel's military.

Donald Trump Jr. returned to the witness stand Monday to give his family’s side of the story in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud trial against Donald Trump.

Maryanne Trump Barry retired from her role as a federal appeals court judge in 2019.

A gag order prohibiting the former president from making critical comments about the federal prosecutors was paused this month.

The White House responded to Speaker Mike Johnson's proposed funding bill just days before the government is expected to run out of money.

After initially blasting the new Republican speaker's idea of a two-step, "laddered" funding bill, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats now say they are open to it.

Donald Trump Jr. defends father's 'incredible vision' while testifying in a New York fraud trial. 'He's an artist with real estate. He sees things other people don't.'

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a new "Code of Conduct" following months of heightened scrutiny from Democrats pushing for new ethics laws for the high court.

Images of the cocaine found in the White House have been released, though the culprit remains a mystery. The photos were released due to a Daily Mail Freedom of Information Act request. The cocaine was discovered in the White House on July 2, prompting an evacuation and extensive investigation...

Former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels announced Sunday that he would launch a primary challenge to progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), after losing the primary race narrowly in 2022. Samuels, a moderate Democrat, announced his bid for Omar’s congressional seat in an interview...

The director of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has warned that all of its aid operations in Gaza will soon stop because of a lack of fuel in Gaza.

Maryanne Trump Barry, the older sister of former President Donald Trump, has died Monday at the age of 86, the New York City Police Department confirmed.

President Joe Biden's problems with his party's left flank are on display in San Francisco as progressives protest his policies on trade and Israel.

Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) withdrawal from the 2024 GOP presidential race comes as elected Republicans reckon with the increasing likelihood that former President Donald Trump will be the party’s nominee. Scott announced his surprise decision to suspend his campaign on Sunday evening, a move most...

Paul Pelosi recounted in a California courtroom Monday the shock he felt last year as he awoke to a man armed with a hammer in the San Francisco home he shares with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, telling jurors how he later came to in a pool of blood after he was violently struck in the head.

Thousands of people are trapped in Gaza's few functioning hospitals as fighting draws ever closer.

Gregory Yetman was identified in a USA TODAY investigation in early 2023. Court documents show the FBI concluded he is the suspect known as #278 AFO.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) had a tense conversation on Monday with journalist Aaron Maté on an Amtrak train when the lawmaker was repeatedly asked about pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza. The confrontation began when Maté started his video recording of Coons, who was sitting in front of him on the...

The complaint alleges that Florida Senate candidate Keith Gross is improperly using his company to finance a GOP primary campaign against Sen. Rick Scott.

Donald Trump Jr. appeared on the witness stand for the second time as the trial, now in its second month, entered a new phase.

Donald Trump hung up on Kim Kardashian during a 2021 call as she sought his assistance with a clemency case, according to a forthcoming book.

The advertisement reservation marks the biggest investment Nikki Haley's campaign has made to date.

From Social Security checks to national parks, here’s how a government shutdown would (or wouldn't) disrupt the United States.

America First Legal filed a lawsuit Monday against the school board for Montgomery County, Maryland, and the county's superintendent, Monifa McKnight. The lawsuit claims that the Board of Education deprived two citizens, Matthew Foldi and Bethany Mandel, of their rights to the First Amendment...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville is waging an unprecedented campaign to try to change the Pentagon's abortion policy, employing maneuvers to hold up hundreds of military nominations and promotions.

“Some of that rhetoric can be seen as potentially genocidal from the way that it dehumanizes Palestinian civilians,” one expert told NBC News after comments by Israeli government officials.

The younger Mr Trump is the first defence witness in the family's civil fraud trial in New York.

The victim was involved in a fight on Nov. 1, according to Las Vegas police. Their investigation continues.

Allie Phillips decided to run for office after being forced to leave Tennessee to get an abortion.

The case concerns Michael Johnson, a prisoner with mental health issues, who was denied almost all opportunities to exercise for three years while in solitary confinement.

Former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels announced that he will once against try to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in the 2024 Democratic primary.

Democratic leaders in the House and Senate signaled openness on Monday to a Republican funding bill they had panned as unserious only days ago. Over the weekend, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled a "laddered" continuing resolution that extends government funding in two stages, with some...

The photo has been online since at least 2017, predating the Israel-Hamas war by six years. No American soldiers have been deployed to the country.

Mr Pelosi says his attacker was searching for his wife Nancy Pelosi, whom he "had to take out".

US forces came under attack at least four more times by Iran-backed groups in Syria after the US military carried out air strikes on targets associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard corps on Sunday, a US official told CNN.

Governments are struggling with how to balance fears of rising antisemitism and the rights of protesters who for weeks have marched in the streets of the continent’s biggest cities.

Memo gives glimpse of intense internal opposition to Biden’s strategy in the war, in which he has maintained support for Israel

FIRST ON FOX: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan subpoenaed former White House Counsel Dana Remus and requested transcribed interviews from several other officials with knowledge of President Biden’s alleged improper retention of...

British PM Rishi Sunak fires interior minister Suella Braverman for comments on Israel-Hamas war. Her replacement? Former leader David Cameron.

Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), testified Monday about the night he "woke up in a pool of his own blood" after being attacked by a man who broke into his house carrying zip ties and a hammer and demanded to speak to his wife."The door opened and a very

Judges have been criticised for failing to disclose gifts and holiday arrangements they received.

Governments are struggling with how to balance fears of rising antisemitism and the rights of protesters who for weeks have marched in the streets of the continent’s biggest cities.

The Republican presidential candidate's "unrestrained chainsaw" plan prompted lots of questions on social media.

The Democrat will not seek re-election to Congress next year, leaving her competitive seat open in the 2024 election.

The new code of conduct was signed by all nine Supreme Court justices, but it's unclear how it will be enforced.

The Chinese government has built up the world’s largest known online disinformation operation and is using it to harass US residents, politicians, and businesses—at times threatening its targets with violence, a CNN review of court documents and public disclosures by social media companies has...

The White House refused to say if it would support cooperation with a subpoena for a former official to testify in the Biden classified documents investigation.

The Maryland Democrat warned what would be to come from a second Trump administration.

The House has voted to refer a resolution to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for high crimes and misdemeanors to the House Homeland Security Committee.

One of the four victims was a graduate student. The others were not students, the university said in a statement.

One claim in particular from Donald Trump's "very, very smart" daughter "kind of rang a little not true to me," said Stephanie Grisham.

President Joe Biden hosted Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the White House Monday for a series of bilateral discussions, just two days before the president is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco for a long-awaited summit.Biden has spent the better part of the last...

74-year-old Vivian Silver, the Israeli peace activist and leader of Women Wage Peace, has been identified, five weeks after she was kidnapped and killed by Hamas terrorists.

A US Secret Service agent on President Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi Biden’s security detail shot at individuals attempting to break into a US government vehicle in Georgetown, CNN has learned.

The fate of civilians seeking shelter and care grows more desperate. Here is the news to know Monday.

The senator met with staff members in South Carolina after surprising them by dropping out. A mix of campaign problems and Trump’s dominance made the decision feel inevitable.

Psaki, a former White House press secretary under Biden, admitted her former boss "isn't perfect" but voters should understand "the alternative."

Republicans don't grasp how the Biden administration has weaponized the federal government around elections. The GOP needs to figure out how to respond to this abuse of power.

In a recent interview with lawmakers, special counsel David Weiss pushed back against claims that his probe into Hunter Biden was tainted by politics and pledged that his final report will clear the air on some of the most scrutinized internal disputes from his tenure, according to a transcript...

Trump used the term at least twice, reminding many of how dictators like Germany's Hitler and Italy's Mussolini compared their enemies to rodents.

Russia, Syria accused of using world’s focus on Gaza to escalate attacks in Idlib; US targets Iran-backed groups.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) video taken from a tunnel linking to the Rantisi Hospital shows where Hamas based operations and left weapons like vests packed with explosives.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a resolution to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last week.

A man grabbed a microphone from the hands of climate change activist Greta Thunberg on Sunday after she invited women from Afghanistan and Gaza to take the stage at her protest in Amsterdam. The man, who has not been identified, claimed he did not attend her event to hear about "politics" and...

Prosecutor: Trump wants 'to create a carnival atmosphere from which he hopes to profit by distracting' from 'the charges against him.'

During a press conference on Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom disclosed that a preliminary investigation revealed that arson appears to be the cause of the massive inferno that forced the indefinite closure of the I-10 Freeway over the weekend.

The broad outlines of the government spending fight as it stands in November are the same as they were in October. But House Speaker Mike Johnson may be on course to avoid a partial government shutdown with relatively little drama, at least for now.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged disagreements within the State Department over the Biden administration’s approach to Israel-Hamas war in an email to staff Monday.

A ransomware attack on a US unit of the powerful Industrial and Commercial Bank of China that may have contributed to a brief market sell-off on Thursday was a significant escalation for cybercriminals that underscored how big hacks can disrupt business for even the best-resourced companies...

More than half of Gaza’s homes have been damaged by Israel’s bombardments and at least 1.5 million people are displaced.

The European Union urged Israel to demonstrate "maximum restraint to ensure the protection of civilians," even as it acknowledged and condemned Hamas's use of hospitals and civilians as "shields."EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell issued a statement on Monday at a meeting of the block's...

President Biden may be losing support from Black Democrats in 2024, a new report says, pointing to recent polling and efforts by the DNC to attract Black voters.

The Supreme Court on Monday announced a code of conduct in an attempt to bolster the public’s confidence in the court after months of news stories alleging that some of the justices have been skirting ethics regulations.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital warns that patients’ next transfer will be to mass graves if Israeli aggression continues.

A court hearing for two South Koreans charged with operating brothels in the US to determine whether they will be held behind bars pending an outcome in the case has been delayed until next week.

A cabinet reshuffle kicks off a new week in British politics, amid concerns for civil liberties.

Xi Jinping has a plan for how the world should work, and one year into his norm-shattering third term as Chinese leader, he’s escalating his push to challenge America’s global leadership – and put his vision front and center.

As the war enters its 629th day, these are the main developments.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., announced the suspension of his presidential campaign and shared key takeaways from his time on the campaign trail on "Sunday Night in America."

Hospitals in Gaza continue to be surrounded by Israeli forces, tens of thousands of civilians remain in northern Gaza.

The backlash to legislative attempts to limit abortion access proved to be a winning strategy for Democrats during last week's off-year elections in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. Now, Democrats are moving to get more abortion measures on the ballot during next year's pivotal...

Both Republican and Democratic politicians have shown staunch support for Israel despite mounting death toll in Gaza.

The massive fire that forced the indefinite closure of Interstate 10, a major traffic artery in Los Angeles, was set intentionally, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.

The Marvels flopped as the lowest-grossing opening weekend in the 15 years since the release of the original Iron Man. The latest female-led Marvel Cinematic Universe film opened to $47 million domestically and was just under $100 million worldwide. KYRSTEN SINEMA IS FACING ONE BIG PROBLEM AFTER...

The special counsel’s office is pushing back against Donald Trump using his Washington, DC, federal criminal trial as a spectacle, after Trump’s lawyers told the court this weekend he’d support cameras in the courtroom.

First lady Jill Biden launched an effort to improve research into women's health. Agencies have 45 days to come up with solutions.

House Republicans' chances of keeping their majority got slightly easier on Monday when a vulnerable Democrat announced she would not be seeking re-election.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning health care providers to be on the lookout for children who may have been exposed to lead after eating cinnamon-flavored applesauce products.

A 3-year-old American citizen toddler is one of the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza, the White House said Sunday.

Maryanne Trump Barry, the older sister of former President Donald Trump, has died Monday at the age of 86, the New York City Police Department confirmed.

President Biden reportedly called David Axelrod a "p----" after the former Obama adviser suggested the president consider dropping out of the 2024 race.