The Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted this week on federal fraud charges from a years-long alleged covert paid informant program that Justice Department officials said allocated millions of dollars in donations to a network of informants affiliated with or closely tied to White supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. The 11-count indictment accuses the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of wire fraud, false statements to a federally...

As the Massachusetts GOP gathers for its convention in Worcester this weekend, Airborne Ranger and former Abiomed CEO Mike Minogue appears to have the wind in his sails.  With a solid business background, he is positioning himself as the practical problem-solver and outsider, running in the primary against two veterans of the Charlie Baker administration. Minogue, who ran a leading medical devices company for two decades, also benefits...

A congressman in a competitive district in Pennsylvania said he’d leave the Republican Party if his state conducted open primary elections. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., a moderate who has bucked party lines on some of President Donald Trump‘s key initiatives, including voting against the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act, is seeking re-election in a purple district he has controlled for eight years. Fitzpatrick shared in an interview with...