Month: August 2022

The incident happened shortly after 4 a.m. ET, when the man drove his car into a barricade at East Capitol Street and Second Street. He then got out of his car, which was “engulfed in flames,” and fired several shots into the air, Capitol Police said in a statement. He then fatally shot himself as authorities approached him. There were no additional injuries and the man’s name was not immediately released, the statement said. “At this time, it does not appear that the man targeted any members of Congress, who are on recess, and it does not appear that officers…

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) – A Kentucky judge was suspended with pay Friday after testifying that he pressured a lawyer who practiced on his court to support his re-election campaign. The Kentucky Commission on Judicial Conduct voted 3-2 to suspend 42nd Judicial Circuit Judge Jamie Jameson after a daylong hearing in which he told commissioners he was being used for political purposes. The Paducah Sun reported. The hearing included testimony from attorney Lisa DeRenard that Jameson repeatedly asked her to support his re-election campaign against Public Defender Andrea Moore. DeRenard felt pressured to donate to his campaign, which she did several…

PENDLETON – The execution of a search warrant at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate was just politics, according to Rep. Victoria Spartz. Spartz, R-5th District, held a town hall meeting Saturday at the Pendleton Public Library that drew a large crowd. Spartz and other Indiana Republicans met with Trump just days after the search warrant was served. “The meeting was scheduled earlier,” he said. “It’s just political and getting the FBI involved is very dangerous. It shouldn’t happen.” Spartz said the issues could have been resolved without the notification of the search warrant. “No one should be treated like…

LONDON (AP) – It’s not just the economy. While fears of inflation and recession weigh heavily on voters’ minds, another issue is cropping up in political campaigns from the UK and Australia to the US and beyond: the “China threat”. The two finalists vying to become Britain’s next prime minister, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, faced off in a televised debate last month over who would be tougher on China. It is a marked departure from outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “Sinophil” business-focused approach and part of a hardening of anti-China rhetoric in many Western countries and other democracies, such…

TALLAHASSEE (CBS MIAMI) Florida’s Seminole Tribe, which last year reached a gambling settlement with Gov. Ron DeSantis, contributed $1 million to its political committee on Aug. 1, according to a newly filed financial report . The tribe’s contribution was part of the nearly $2.225 million the Friends of Ron DeSantis committee received from July 30 to Aug. 5, the period covered by the report. The committee also spent nearly the same amount of money during the period and had about $124.9 million in cash on hand as of Aug. 5. DeSantis and the tribe negotiated an agreement last year that…

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – This week on Louisiana Politics, hear about the latest controversy with the Department of Children and Family Services after a 2-year-old boy died of a drug overdose that some believe was could have avoided Juvenile justice advocates are still fighting the state over the transfer of some juvenile inmates to a facility in Angola after a series of outbursts and riots. More funding for a train from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, a small town is thousands in debt and Congress is grappling with inflation. This and more at the headquarters of the local elections….