Rep. Thomas Massie has stopped counting on help from Elon Musk, despite a vow of support last year from the world's richest man. Why it matters: Musk has cut huge checks to Republicans and GOP super PACs this cycle. But with the primary just three weeks away, he's yet to lift a finger for Massie against Navy SEAL veteran Ed Gallrein, who was recruited by President Trump. - "I think [Musk] found out it's easier to land rockets backwards and to get cars to drive themselves than it is to fix this place," Massie told Axios at the Capitol last week, adding that he doesn't expect Musk's help at this point. - Massie is the first Republican incumbent that Trump's political organization targeted for defeat this cycle — and the intensity of…
Luther Davis, a former defensive tackle at the University of Alabama, has pleaded guilty to defrauding investors of millions of dollars by putting on makeup and wigs to impersonate NFL players.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday fiercely defended his use of the phrase "maximum warfare" to describe Democrats' redistricting efforts. Why it matters: Republicans have characterized the remark as an example of the type of inflammatory rhetoric that can spark political violence following the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting . - After Virginians narrowly voted last week to approve a new map that could give Democrats a 10-1 majority, Jeffries said at a press conference: "We are in an era of maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time." - It was a direct reference to an anonymous source's characterization of the White House's strategy on mid-decade redistricting in a New York Times story last summer. What…
The trial will be done in two parts and the jury will only have input in the first phase, which is the liability phase to decide if any wrongdoing occurred. There will also be a remedies phase to determine the appropriate damages.
U.S. — On the heels of yet another attempted act of political violence being used for laughs by late-night talk show hosts, Americans expressed a deep longing for the good old days when comedians were funny and didn't wish death on people.