Two former leaders of the Proud Boys were sentenced Thursday for seditious conspiracy and other charges related to the Capitol riot.
Driving the news: Joseph Biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison while Zachary Rehl was sentenced to 15 years in prison, per the Department of Justice.
Why it matters: The Arkansas law is the first such measure in the U.S. that requires age verification from users to open new social media accounts, and for anyone under 18 to have permission from a parent or guardian for a new account.
Why it matters: As Trump remains the GOP presidential frontrunner after four indictments in four months, questions loom on whether his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the Capitol riot are enough to disqualify him through the Civil War-era amendment.
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is "medically clear" to continue his work schedule, his doctor said in a release Thursday.
Driving the news: For the second time in a matter of weeks,McConnell appeared to freeze Wednesday while speaking to reporters, sparking renewed concerns about his health.
Former President Trump will not attend his arraignment next week in Fulton County, Georgia, and pleaded not guilty to all charges in the state's election subversion case against him, according to a court filing on Thursday.
Why it matters: It's a change for the former president, who has strategically seized on his court appearances to fundraise and galvanize his base.
Breaking with fellow elected Republicans, two top officials in Georgia are defying calls to go after the prosecutor who indicted former President Trump.
Why it matters: Georgia was at the center of Trump's efforts to alter the 2020 election results, including his call where he asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes."
Why it matters: "If you don't debate RFK Jr., then he has a stronger case to say, look, I didn't get a fair shake so I'm going to run in the general," Yang — whose book, "The Last Election," is set to come out on Sept. 12 — told Axios.
Hate crimes against Latinos rose again last year, while some of the biggest U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations saw record numbers of such crimes, a new report says.
The big picture: In recent years, anti-Latino hate crimes have steadily risen — and new data suggest the trend is continuing, although at a significantly slower rate.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reported three reimbursements for travel and meals from Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow in 2022, according to his newly released annual financial disclosure.
Why it matters: Thomas faced scrutiny earlier this year for reported ethical breaches and omissions from his past financial disclosures, which were also linked to Crow.
The White House on Thursday asked Congress to adopt a short-term funding extension to avert a government shutdown, a spokesperson for the Office of Management and Budget confirmed to Axios.
Driving the news: "Although the crucial work continues to reach a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills, it is clear that a short-term continuing resolution (CR) will be needed next month," the spokesperson said.
After his second freeze on camera in as many months, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will face a question that has been swirling around the Senate and the presidential race all year: How old is too old to serve?
Why it matters: At 81, McConnell is the longest serving party leader in Senate history, using his mastery of Senate procedure to bedevil Democrats and reshape the federal judiciary.
The Federal Reserve's go-to measure of inflation accelerated last month, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
Why it matters: The Personal Consumption Expenditures Index, a gauge tracked by the Fed, rose 3.3% from a year ago — an uptick from the 3% in June as the U.S. lapped a period last year in which energy prices plunged.
Susan Page,USA Today's Washington bureau chief, started interviews two years ago for "The Rulebreaker," her biography of Barbara Walters, the pioneering ABC News interviewer, coming in April.
Why she matters: Page tells Axios that Walters, who died last year at 93, is "another of those bad-ass women of the Silent Generation" — along with Page's previous biographees, Barbara Bush and Nancy Pelosi.
Americans en masse are dissatisfied with the country's schools. But parents feel pretty good about their own kids' education.
Why it matters: A divide between parents with first-hand experience of U.S. schools and the rest of the country has gotten worse since the onset of the pandemic and a rise in political polarization.
Former President Trump and people working for him allegedly fraudulently inflated his net worth by between $812 million to $2.2 billion from 2011 to 2021, New York's attorney general said in unsealed court filings on Wednesday.
Why it matters: James' officehas made fraud claims against Trump before, but the filings included new estimates of the total amount that Trump and the other defendants in the civil case misvalued some assets, as well as his overall net worth.
Former President Trump during a closed-door deposition touted his real estate credentials and defended his presidency as he said New York Attorney General Letitia James should "drop" her lawsuit because "you don't have a case," per a transcript unsealed Wednesday.
Driving the news: "So many things I did for this city ... and now I have to come and justify myself to you," Trump said in the seven-hour April testimony for the civil case to James, who accuses him of fraudulently inflating his net worth by billions of dollars, according to the transcript.
