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Both articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas were deemed unconstitutional by the Senate on Wednesday in a party-line vote. The first of two articles of impeachment alleged Mayorkas engaged in the "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" regarding the southern border in his capacity as DHS secretary. The second claimed Mayorkas had breached public trust.

The embattled anchor recently announced he was ending his SiriusXM radio show. HarperCollins is no longer publishing Chris Cuomo's forthcoming book amid the swirling scandals plaguing the ex-CNN anchor. "Custom House does not intend to publish the Chris Cuomo book," a HarperCollins spokesperson confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday.

A former high school teacher in Montana was released from prison on Thursday after serving just one month for the rape of a 14-year-old student who later killed herself, a corrections department spokeswoman said. The surprisingly lenient term given Stacey Rambold, 54, for the 2007 rape of Cherice Moralez drew a firestorm of public outrage. The state attorney general has appealed for a longer sentence to the Montana Supreme Court, and several groups are seeking the ouster of District Judge G. Todd Baugh, who handed down the sentence. The outcry from women's groups was further inflamed by remarks Baugh made...

Bombing Suspects' Mom: 'My Family Is in the Dirt' By KIRIT RADIA MAKHACHKALA, Dagestan, April 20, 2013 The mother of the Boston bombing suspects said in a tearful phone call with ABC News this evening that she and her husband plan to travel to the United States to visit their younger son, who was arrested on Friday evening. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said she fears 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is suspected of planting two bombs at Monday's Boston Marathon along with his older brother Tamerlan, will receive the death penaly. "I lost two sons," she said. "My family is in the dirt."...

Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill’s husband used the U.S. Senate Dining Room to cut business deals selling tax credits tied to stimulus money, a whistle-blowing executive inside his company alleged on an audio recording exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller. “The thing that irritated me about this was he [McCaskill’s husband Joseph Shepard] entertained these outside investors in the Senate Dining Room,” the whistle-blower said. “That’s where he closed the deal.” The whistle-blower, Craig Woods, was a longtime high-ranking official within Shepard’s business empire, serving first as chief financial officer and then as vice president and chief underwriter for Missouri Equity...

Someone just noticed this elsewhere on another blog, i guess the WH photographer never picked up on it. I would never ever do this in my own home or a friends home, let alone disrespect the Oval Office.....but what would i expect from him,why am i not surprised, lounging, putting his feet on the table with his shoes on. What next pee in the plant pots. No respect, get your feet off the table and wipe it down, foreign dignitaries have their coffee off that table.

Process servers are stuck, and $2.4M lawsuit in limbo Officials say Chad Condit illegally took campaign money raised by his father. WASHINGTON — Chad Condit is proving to be an elusive defendant. The son of former congressman Gary Condit, Chad Condit is a target of a $2.4 million lawsuit filed by California's political watchdog agency. The regulators claim Condit and his sister, Cadee Condit, illegally pocketed campaign money their father raised. But in the two months since the Fair Political Practices Commission filed the lawsuit, officials have been unable to reach Chad Condit to deliver legal papers. "We are still...

Scott Peterson's defense team will ask a judge to postpone his much- anticipated preliminary hearing, sources close to the case said Friday. Peterson's lead attorney, Mark Geragos, was looking to push back the Oct. 20 hearing because a Los Angeles murder trial in which he represents one of the defendants is behind schedule, sources said. After two weeks of testimony, prosecutors in that case still have five to seven more witnesses to call before the defense can begin, said Darrell Mavis, the Los Angeles County deputy district attorney prosecuting the case. "We've qualified the jury through Oct. 31, and that's...

TURLOCK -- Jerry Dock McClain drove 1,500 miles from Texas to Turlock with plans to rendezvous with a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet and whisk her away to Mexico, police say. Instead, the 65-year-old retired Navy veteran was whisked away -- to jail -- after his arrest by detectives with the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force. McClain's arrest was the 30th that Detective Ken Hedrick has made in the past 30 months -- a string that drew the attention of ABC Television's "Good Morning America." The show plans to profile the latest case Friday. The investigation began...

Fox news has just reported Condit has supplied his Republican opponent a list of his major donors, as well as commentary on when and who to contact.