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A Michigan judge dismissed criminal charges Tuesday against a group of people who were accused of attempting to falsely certify President Donald Trump as the winner of the 2020 election in the battleground state, a major blow to prosecutors as similar cases in four other states have been muddied with setbacks.District Court Judge Kristen D. Simmons said in a court hearing that the 15 Republicans accused will not face trial. The case has dragged through the courts since Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, announced the charges over two years ago.Each member of the group, which included a few…

Michigan District Court Judge Kristen Simmons speaks Tuesday in Lansing while dismissing the criminal cases against 15 people accused of acting falsely as electors for Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption toggle caption Paul Sancya/AP A Michigan judge has dismissed criminal charges against 15 people who signed false certificates saying Donald Trump won the state’s electoral votes in 2020. Trump lost the state and the presidency to Joe Biden. It’s the latest loss in prosecutors’ efforts to hold accountable people associated with Trump’s attempt to overturn his election loss. In May, an Arizona judge sent that…

More than 600 people were arrested in a weeklong series of operations targeting the Sinaloa drug cartel, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced on Monday.The operations took place between Aug. 25 and Aug. 29, according to the DEA. During that timespan, DEA agents in 23 field divisions in the U.S., and seven “foreign regions,” carried out actions resulting in 617 arrests. They also led to the seizures of 480 kilograms of fentanyl powder, more than 700,000 counterfeit pills, roughly 2,200 kilograms of methamphetamine, roughly 7,500 kilograms of cocaine and 16 kilograms of heroin. Altogether, around $12.8 million worth of currency and assets…

September 9, 2025 Trump is repaying rural voters’ loyalty by shafting them. Ad Policy Debris and storm damage on a rural property in Edgerton, Wisconsin, after powerful straight-line winds swept through the area on March 15, 2025. The storm system, which impacted multiple states across the Midwest, brought damaging winds, heavy rain, and widespread power outages.(Ross Harried / Getty Images) For a week, it was MAGA versus meatloaf. Last month, the rustic restaurant chain Cracker Barrel committed the grave offense of introducing a new logo. Gone were the titular barrel and overall-clad Uncle Herschel, the Tennessee-based eatery’s mascot. In a…

If you glance at advertisements, the billboards or the website too quickly, you might mistake any of them for a campaign banner. The colors and the lettering look familiar. And you’ll certainly recognize the face beneath the cowboy hat.  Trump Country 93.7 radio station website, Fort Myers, Florida. As soon as President Trump began his second term, a small Fort Myers, Florida country radio station began capitalizing on his return. WHEL radio rebranded itself “Trump Country” 93.7 FM on Inauguration Day. It appears to have briefly tried out the name in late 2020 before dropping the moniker after a couple of…

A school bus carrying an Oklahoma City-area softball team crashed Monday evening, leaving several people severely hurt, officials said.Kevin Sims, superintendent of schools in Minco, Oklahoma, said in a statement on Facebook that it was “a serious accident west of Minco. Multiple individuals on the bus were severely injured. We will be closing school tomorrow.”CBS Oklahoma City affiliate KWTV cited the Oklahoma Highway Patrol as saying at least 6 people were taken to hospitals. There was no word on how many were students.According to OHP, the school was coming back from a game.Authorities told KWTV the bus rolled over multiple…

Vice President JD Vance hopes President Trump’s mega spending bill is received favorably, especially in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional district, which is a key race in next year’s midterm elections. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Ahead of next year’s midterm elections, Vice President JD Vance has been making stops in key congressional districts to promote Republicans’ recently passed megabill. That included a visit to Wisconsin, where he told steelworkers better times are ahead. Yet, as Chuck Quirmbach reports from La Crosse, Wisconsin, that’s a political promise many in this area have heard before.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)JD VANCE: We love you all. Thank you…

Eddie Weinstein’s stroke paralyzed the right side of his body and left his daughter, Caroline, scrambling.”I knew the only way that he would survive and I would survive would be to have him live at home with care,” she told CBS News. So, in 2020, Marcia became their home health aide.”It was the first time since my dad’s stroke that I could trust somebody. To know that he would be okay,” Caroline said.Marcia, 53, is from Honduras. Her career as a health care aide began 25 years ago, after Hurricane Mitch devastated her home country and she was granted Temporary Protected…

William F. Buckley Jr. had many friends and many sisters. These two facts, combined with his ardent gregariousness, made Buckley a tireless marriage broker and busybody. Throughout his long life and career, he endlessly stuck his nose in everyone else’s private lives.Of course, as Sam Tanenhaus documents in his massive and absorbing new biography, Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, he was known for many other achievements as well. Buckley was a man of many parts: the most famous American conservative pundit of the last century, the founder of National Review, a key figure in the right-wing…

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