House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will visit New Mexico next month at what will likely be an announcement by former U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell to campaign for her old seat. The Roswell Daily Record reported Friday that McCarthy will attend a rally April 10 for Herrell at the Heritage Farm & Ranch Museum in Las Cruces. ‘I’m inviting you to join Speaker Kevin McCarthy and me in Las Cruces as we launch a new campaign to...

The New Mexico Supreme Court blocked local anti-abortion ordinances Friday pending the outcome of a case centered on constitutional rights to equal protection and due process. The ruling granted a request by Democratic state Attorney General Raúl Torrez and follows the state’s recent adoption of a new abortion rights bill signed by Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham just weeks ago that overrides any local ordinances aimed at limiting access to abortion procedures and medications. The...

Some House Democrats who previously condemned former President Donald Trump for threatening to jail political opponents had a different reaction after a Manhattan grand jury’s decision to bring criminal charges against the leading Republican presidential candidate. ‘Threatening to jail political opponents is something despots do. This is dangerous and beneath our great country,’ Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., the House Minority Whip, said on Twitter during an October 2016 presidential debate between Trump and former Democratic...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said nothing about former President Donald Trump’s indictment this week, even as several House Republicans have condemned the charges as politically motivated. Since Trump’s indictment was reported Thursday, McConnell has issued no public statements on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against the former president and leading Republican 2024 candidate. Neither has Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the No. 2 Republican in the Senate. McConnell’s office told Fox...

Missouri’s state attorney general is investigating gender-affirming care provided by Planned Parenthood, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by the St. Louis health provider. Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey demanded documents from Planned Parenthood after finding out that the clinic provides ‘life-altering gender transition drugs to children with any therapy assessment,’ spokeswoman Madeline Sieren said in a statement. She described that as a departure from standard care. Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and...

Two of former President Donald Trump’s children immediately took aim at the move by a grand jury in Manhattan to indict him Thursday — slamming ‘third-world prosecutorial misconduct’ and warning Republicans that they are the next targets of a weaponized political apparatus. ‘This is third-world prosecutorial misconduct. It is the opportunistic targeting of a political opponent in a campaign year,’ Eric Trump tweeted.  Fox News learned Thursday afternoon that Trump has been indicted. Manhattan District...

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted as part of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s years-long investigation, possibly for hush money payments.  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been investigating Trump for hush money payments made leading up to the 2016 presidential election.  These include the $130,000 payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, and the $150,000 payment made to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, Fox News Digital has learned.  Hush money payments made...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said his state ‘will not assist’ in any extradition request by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg amid what he called ‘questionable circumstances’ while slamming the charges against former President Donald Trump as ‘un-American’ and as a ‘weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda.’  The former president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday after a years-long investigation by the Manhattan District...

Former President Donald Trump was indicted Thursday by a Manhattan grand jury, following a years-long investigation from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and liberal prosecutor Alvin Bragg.  News broke Thursday evening that a Manhattan grand jury investigating a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 election campaign voted to indict Trump. Bragg is also investigating the $150,000 payment made to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, Fox News Digital previously reported.  Amid the...

The White House is silent on the unprecedented indictment of former President Donald Trump. The former president of the United States, and the leading Republican presidential nominee for 2024, was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury Thursday after a years-long investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The White House declined to comment when asked for reaction to the unprecedented charges against Trump. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been investigating Trump for hush money...