Chicago’s messy election will only get nasty in the runoff

CHICAGO — Chicagoans are bracing for an election that could tear this deep-blue city apart. After Mayor Lori Lightfoot's defeat earlier this week, her surviving rivals and everyday people are readying themselves for an April 4 runoff certain to prod many of the city’s barely obscured racial and economic divisions. Everyone’s afraid of stating the obvious. The five-week battle...

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House Dems’ early 2024 pitch: Look what we accomplished last term

BALTIMORE — House Democrats hope President Joe Biden’s Wednesday night speech at their annual retreat will light their path back to the majority. Some of them won’t be there giving him a warm welcome, though. Though the lion’s share of caucus members will be cheering Biden in Charm City, several are likely to skip his speech and stay in D.C. for an awards ceremony honoring...

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DeSantis may remove another Florida prosecutor from office

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears poised to suspend another prosecutor from office, this time zeroing in on how a central Florida state attorney dealt with the 19-year-old man accused of killing three people in Orlando, including a television reporter. DeSantis has already publicly criticized State Attorney Monique Worrell’s handling of previous prosecutions...

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Intel community bats down main theory behind ‘Havana Syndrome’ incidents

The intelligence community has determined that unexplained health incidents referred to as “Havana Syndrome” that have afflicted hundreds of government officials in recent years were not caused by a foreign adversary, knocking down a main theory among victims and experts. The assessment, compiled by the CIA and six intelligence agencies, also said the U.S. found no evidence...

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Supreme Court appears ready to let New Jersey exit mob watchdog

The Supreme Court appears willing to let New Jersey unilaterally exit the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, a bistate police agency created to crack down on corruption immortalized in the Marlon Brando movie “On The Waterfront.” All nine justices had tough questions for New York over the course of more than an hour of oral arguments on Wednesday. New York is trying...

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Kinzinger the ‘homeless Republican’ launches ad campaign against extremism

Adam Kinzinger is gone from Congress and the Jan. 6 committee, but he’s still raging against what he sees as dangerous political extremism. The Illinois Republican’s political organization is launching a nationwide campaign urging voters to reject extreme candidates on both sides of the aisle ahead of the 2024 election. The centerpiece of the campaign is a nearly six-minute-long...

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Western firms say they’re quitting Russia. Where’s the proof?

Company statements and databases are flawed measures of what is going on in Russia’s murky business world — and academics are clashing over how to use these methodologies. from Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories https://ift.tt/MpqDoAl via IFT...

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