Year: 2024

Former GOP lawmakers, officials urge Garland to investigate Musk

Former Republican lawmakers, advisers and Justice Department officials have called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate tech billionaire Elon Musk for awarding cash prizes to voters in swing states if they sign his political organization’s petition, according to a…

Elon Musk targets Michigan with voter misinformation

Two weeks before the presidential election, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) accused billionaire Elon Musk of spreading “dangerous disinformation” about voting in her state after Musk, owner of X and Tesla, shared a post suggesting falsely that the…

Lawyer says DeSantis’s office pressured him to send abortion ad letters to TV stations

Letters that threatened Florida TV stations with criminal penalties if they aired a political ad backing a referendum that would repeal the state’s six-week abortion ban came directly from Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office, according to the attorney who signed and…

Trump repeats ‘enemy from within’ comment, targeting Pelosi and Schiff

For the third time in a week, former president Donald Trump repeated his charge that Democrats allied against him are “the enemy from within” in an interview with Fox News during which he called the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on…

Kamala Harris urges Black churchgoers to vote against ‘chaos, fear and hate’

JONESBORO, Ga. — Kamala Harris spent the Sunday of her 60th birthday working to turn out Black voters in Georgia, where she asked congregants at two churches outside of Atlanta to choose between a country of “chaos, fear and hate”…

Musk promises a daily $1 million lottery in questionable pro-Trump effort

Billionaire Elon Musk has further escalated his direct intervention in the 2024 election in support of GOP nominee Donald Trump, announcing Saturday that he will hand out $1 million daily in a lottery for registered swing-state voters who sign a…