An amendment named after slain Augusta University 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley from Georgia is at the center of a Senate showdown over the $1.2 trillion spending package that must pass before midnight to avoid a partial government shutdown.  The Laken Riley Act has been introduced as an amendment to the six-bill appropriations package by Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., but sources have told Fox News Digital that Democrats...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a complaint for the disbarment of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her “illicit affair” with a top prosecutor in her Georgia election interference case against former President Trump. “Today, I’m filing a complaint to disbar Fulton County DA Fani Willis for her corrupt actions,” Rep. Greene, R-GA, wrote in an X post on Wednesday. Greene’s post came after Fulton County Superior...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers are pushing Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration to do more to investigate the deaths of older adults who are the subject of an abuse or neglect complaint after Pennsylvania recorded a steep increase in such deaths, starting in 2019. Shapiro’s Department of Aging has balked at the idea raised by Republican lawmakers, who have pressed the department, or the county-level agencies that...