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FOX 24 US On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like many others in the crowd that day: white, with a Trump 2020 hat on and a shirt marking his service to the country in Afghanistan.  But this one was different. Brian W. Lynch was months into a new job as a federal prosecutor in Maryland when he attended the march on the Capitol. Yet, somehow, Lynch’s presence at the Capitol that fateful day has not been publicly reported until now, more than five years later. In the meantime, Lynch remained at DOJ and, under the…

FOX 24 US President Donald Trump may have learned from his last go at manipulating the decennial census to include a citizenship question: His administration looks poised to try something different in order to target undocumented immigrants during the 2030 count, experts said in a briefing call this week. Civil rights organizations and census experts pointed to clues that they believe show the Census Bureau will use a trifecta of new or modified survey questions on the 2030 census in an attempt to exclude certain immigrants in order to influence who is counted when the bureau calculates how many congressional…

FOX 24 US Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) indicated to CNN Wednesday that he was undecided on voting to confirm acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to that position permanently due to Blanche’s response to his questions about President Donald Trump’s corrupt slush fund. On the first day of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrats and a few Republicans questioned Blanche on the so-called $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that came out of Trump’s settlement with his own Internal Revenue Services (IRS). Blanche, as he has told Congress before, repeatedly said that the slush fund is “dead” and that it…

FOX 24 US In exchanges with multiple Democratic senators during a Wednesday Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing, Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay Clayton repeatedly refused to state aloud that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. The line of questioning began when Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA), asked Clayton if Biden won in  2020. Instead of answering directly, Clayton dodged the question and said he is “not an election denier” and that “Joe Biden was certified as the president of the United States.” Warner, who seemed satisfied with Clayton’s non-answer, did not press him further. When Warner asked if…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Idaho voters will weigh in on their state’s abortion laws this November. The secretary of state’s office certified a ballot measure that could, if passed, overturn one of the strictest bans in the country, the campaign to restore abortion rights in Idaho confirmed on Monday. The measure would enact a new law establishing a state right to “reproductive freedom,” which it defines as allowing residents to make their own decisions in areas including…

FOX 24 US Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton Are on the Hill Two figures who will play decisive roles in the future of the Trump retribution and election-meddling agenda will be on Capitol Hill for their Senate confirmation hearings today.  Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche will be before the Judiciary Committee for hearings Wednesday and Thursday. And Jay Clayton — Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence and the current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — will be before the Intelligence Committee.  Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer, has since January 2025 played a central role in…

FOX 24 US Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett made a rare appearance before congressional appropriators Tuesday as the Supreme Court seeks an increased security budget.  Court decisions were off limits during the Senate and House hearings, but the testimony still produced a few striking moments.  1) The Bizarre Power of Politeness Protects Trump From Accountability  It was surreal to sit through four hours of hearings on a “heightened threat environment” in which President Donald Trump was only sparingly mentioned. And when a Democrat would invoke Trump, the justices would backpedal onto safer terrain. A typical episode:  Sen. Jack…

FOX 24 US Its Time to Flood the Zone With Shit Again Trump announced Monday evening that he’s hauling out an old trick — the prime-time address — on Thursday at 9 p.m. What will the topic be? “Just gonna be a speech like a lot of my speeches,” he told Hugh Hewitt on Monday. Indeed.  MS Now reported last night that the president, joined by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, FBI Director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, is expected to advance a new set of allegations — or, more likely,…

FOX 24 US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died Saturday evening from a “brief and sudden illness” at the age of 71. The longtime senator’s unexpected death triggered a massive scramble for his now-open seat among various Republican characters in the South Carolina political scene. Here is how it will go: South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) will soon appoint a person to temporarily replace Graham in the Senate and serve out the rest of his current term. That term is set to end on Jan. 3, 2027 and the successor will be picked in the upcoming November election. There will…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra and Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet Shefali and Grace and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. BANGOR, Maine — As Maine Democrats vie to replace Graham Platner in their state’s Senate race, abortion — a key weakness for Republican Sen. Susan Collins — is set to shape the next phase of the contest, which Democrats view as a prime pick-up opportunity. Collins, whose home state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, is considered one of the most vulnerable Republican incumbents up for…