The Center Square) – A government funding stopgap is on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk after the Senate voted 85-11 to pass a 118-page bill to keep the federal government open until March 14. The Continuing Resolution will allocate about $100 billion in disaster relief and extend the Farm Bill, key provisions demanded Read More…
(The Center Square) – Millions of residents in blue states have migrated to red states within the past 30 years, according to federal data. A policy group that analyzed the data says it’s a clear sign that many Americans find Democratic policies unlivable. From 1990 to 2021, a total of 13 million people left California, New Read More…
ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million to a “presidential foundation and museum” and $1 million in legal fees as part of a settlement with President-elect Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit, according to court documents filed Saturday. The lawsuit was sparked by comments made by anchor George Stephanopoulos during a March 2024 broadcast. Read More…
President Joe Biden faced bipartisan criticism this week after granting clemency to two disgraced officials convicted in high-profile corruption cases. The decision, part of a larger clemency package for 1,500 individuals, ended house arrest for former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan and ex-Dixon, Illinois, comptroller Rita Crundwell, both of whom had previously been released from prison Read More…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argues that people become billionaires only by exploiting workers and preying on vulnerable and less privileged people. “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars,” she told the author Ta-Nehisi Coates at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event this week. Ocasio-Cortez shared a NowThis clip of their discussion Read More…
With the leadoff Iowa caucuses days away, President Trump’s re-election campaign wants to remind voters that Democrats aren’t the only game in town. For the Feb. 3 caucuses, the Trump campaign is planning an ambitious show of force around the state, with over 80 surrogates expected to campaign at caucus locations. The push will be Read More…
Hunter Biden must appear Jan. 29 in a Batesville courtroom and explain why he shouldn’t be held in contempt for violating court orders to provide financial information in his Arkansas paternity case. Independence County Circuit Judge Holly Meyer signed an “Order to Appear and Show Cause” on Monday, a day when Arkansas courts were closed Read More…
There were no arrests or confrontations with heavily armed police at Monday’s gun-rights rally in Richmond. This caused Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to wonder aloud why that was … and blame racism. The New York Democrat and avowed socialist said in an interview for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday that was posted on social media Read More…
He’s a one-man stimulus package! Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending so much money on television spots across the country that it’s causing ad rates to soar, a new analysis shows. “The typical [TV] market increased their rates by 22 percent as the political spending poured in,” an Advertising Analytics analysis found. “Houston was Read More…
As the Senate embarks on the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump — only the third such trial in U.S. history — there’s intense speculation over how senators will vote in the case. And while there is virtually no chance that 67 senators will vote to remove Trump from office, inside both parties are key Read More…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview published Monday that Democrats nationwide can cultivate “too big of a tent,” asserting that she and her party’s 2020 frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden, would be in different political parties in any other nation. Asked for a profile by New York Magazine about what role she might play as Read More…
A new survey found that people are mistaking 2020 Democratic presidential contender Tom Steyer for some of his competitors, despite hefty ad buys by the candidate. The New York Times released Friday the results of a quiz asking readers to identify different celebrities and political figures. The survey found that only 8% of people could properly identify Gov. Steve Read More…
Pete Buttigieg raised $24.7 million in the final three months of the year, his campaign said Wednesday. That brings the former South Bend, Ind., mayor’s total last year to about $76 million, making him one of the best fundraisers in the Democratic presidential field. Other candidates had not yet announced their fundraising hauls for the Read More…
LOS ANGELES — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was campaigning for Bernie Sanders at a jampacked beach-side rally last week when she took a moment to look beyond 2020. “I know, and we all know, that this isn’t just about Bernie Sanders,” she said. “This is about a movement that has been decades in the making.” Since endorsing Read More…
After declaring he would refuse to comply with a subpoena in President Trump’s impeachment trial, Joe Biden backtracked and said he would testify if hauled before Senate lawmakers. The former vice president on Saturday sought to clarify the comments he made on Friday when he told the Des Moine Register’s editorial board that the grounds to call Read More…
Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe penned a Sunday column in support of House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiFive health care fights to watch in 2020 Congressional leaders, 2020 hopefuls condemn anti-Semitic attack in New York Figures to watch as White House mounts impeachment defense MORE’s refusal to submit House articles of impeachment to the Senate for Read More…
President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS launches airstrikes targeting Iran-backed militia in Iraq, Syria Trade, interest rates top finance fights for 2020 Five health care fights to watch in 2020 MORE and former President Obama have finished 2019 tied as the “most admired men” in the U.S., according to new polling from Gallup. Obama and Trump both received 18 percent Read More…
Former first lady Michelle ObamaMichelle LeVaughn Robinson ObamaObama unveils favorite books, shows of 2019 Obama shares photo of family Christmas tree with holiday wishes: ‘Merry Christmas!’ Michelle Obama shares family Christmas card MORE is the “most admired woman” in the U.S. for 2019, according to a new Gallup poll. Obama earned 10 percent of the Read More…
Outlets report that one of the armed church parishioners who took down the gunman that open fired on the congregation the West Freeway Church of Christ in Texas is a man named Jack Wilson. Wilson is a Hood County resident running for commissioner for Precinct 3. He took to his campaign’s Facebook page to briefly discuss Read More…
Soccer players Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris tied the knot in Miami over the weekend, nearly a decade after the two first met as teammates on the U.S. women’s national soccer team in 2010.According to …
Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg on Monday took aim at President Trump, saying she “wouldn’t have wasted” her time with trying to speak to the president about climate change when she attended the U.N. Climate…
The Vermont senator delivered his plea in Des Moines before lighting a menorah on the final night of Hanukkah.
promotional still from ‘Cats’ courtesy Universal Pictures It is rare when a film is so bad that hyperbole does not do it justice… When it had been initially announced that after four decades of Broadway entrenchment the production of ‘’Cats’’ was being adapted for Hollywood there was zero interest from me. It was a musical Read More…
OPINION: Republican double-standards are clear if we look back at President Clinton’s impeachment.
Chief Justice John Roberts has tried to prevent the Supreme Court from being seen as just another political body, but when he presides over President Trump’s likely impeachment trial in the Senate, the partisan glare will…
Screenshot from this video The West Freeway Church faced a horrible tragedy in which they lost two of their congregation in six seconds after an attacker pulled a gun and started shooting in the church. The shooter was taken down by armed parishioners or many more might be dead. One parishioner who was acting as Read More…
The office of Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) announced on Sunday that the Congressman was diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer in early December. Lewis had visited the doctor for a routine physical examination. Lewis, 79, is currently serving his 17th term in the House representing Georgia’s 5th district since 1987. He is known as a Read More…
President Donald Trump speaks during a Made in America showcase event on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, July 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) The latest violent anti-Semitic attack has already left the news cycle because it didn’t fit the proper narrative the legacy media like to push, but there are Read More…
Deputy Attorney General-designate, federal prosecutor Rod Rosenstein, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) I’ve never understood why former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has played]]
The next debate is scheduled for Jan. 14 in Des Moines, with three more to follow in February.
A Florida grandmother was struck by a stun gun three times by police after she refused to allow officers who had an arrest warrant for her grandson into her home, …
The U.S. launched five airstrikes targeting Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria, the Trump administration announced Sunday. The U.S. launched F-15 Strike Eagles against five targets associated…
The Democratic representative from Georgia vowed to fight the disease, which has a five-year survival rate of 1 percent.
Former President Obama took to Twitter to offer words of encouragement to civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on Sunday shortly after he revealed that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.”If there’s…
Senate Democrats are bracing for President Trump to seize on the outcome of the upcoming impeachment trial as a source of momentum for his reelection bid.With 67 votes needed to convict and remove Trump from office…
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) said on Sunday that he has been diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer and will undergo treatment soon.”I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic…
Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford (R) criticized President Trump in a recent interview over the rhetoric and language he uses in his tweets, saying that was “definitely not the way that I’m raising my kids.”During an ap…
Chuck Todd has become absolutely insufferable. He’s shed any semblance of objectively and turned Meet the Press into a more tame version of Rachel Maddow’s show. It’s all orange man bad, all the time. That means that he’s willing to host a segment]]
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) If you haven’t read up on the Texas church shooting — which took the lives of two]]
A Miami pastor who’s hosting President Trump pledged safety for his undocumented followers, saying they do not have to be a citizen to attend.Pastor Guillermo Maldonado, who goes by “apostle,” said members of his c…
Screenshot from this video We reported earlier today the story of Tiffany Harris who was one of several people allegedly involved in attacks on Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Harris allegedly hit three Orthodox Jewish women in the]]
President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani was on a phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro last September, amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela. Giuliani wa…
Screenshot from this video The U.S. has been in talks for over a year with the Taliban, working on a deal to end the war in Afghanistan, and to ensure the best possible situation in Afghanistan after the U.S.]]
[Screenshot from CBS Evening News via YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67MMTqcyAo] If you haven’t seen the video of the church shooting in Texas, beware: It’s harrowing. Yet, it illustrates such a simple idea which some in politics seem hellbent on ignoring. There’s largely only one way]]