Screenshot: The Daily Show Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, criticized the thin-skinned media for being distressed over an image showing President Joe Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck. Distressed might not be strong enough of a word. Donald Trump shared a video of the truck with the decal painted […]
Republican megadonor Jeff Yass recently gave to a super PAC that is trying to topple a progressive incumbent in Pittsburgh. The Moderate PAC, an outside group that aims to support centrist Democrats, has been boosting a primary challenge to Rep. Summer Lee, a member of “The Squad.” Lee and her supporters are quick to point […]
WASHINGTON — Democratic senators are not joining calls on the left for liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire. But for the first time, they’re publicly expressing an unease that history could repeat itself after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s refusal to step down in 2014 ended in the Supreme Court lurching sharply to the right. Ginsburg, […]
Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons Tulsi Gabbard once ran for president as a Democrat, a move that put her on the national map politically. Now she’s since left her old party and there were reports that the independent-minded Gabbard could join the most popular Independent presidential candidate currently running, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Now Gabbard says the […]
Shortly after she pressed three university presidents at a December hearing on whether calling for the genocide of Jews constituted campus harassment, Rep. Elise Stefanik went on a fundraising blitz, pleading with supporters to “turn up the heat on these ‘woke’ liberal presidents even further.” The rush to capitalize on the much ballyhooed hearing proved […]
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert underwent surgery Tuesday after a blood clot was found in her leg, and she has been diagnosed with a vascular condition, her campaign said Tuesday night. The “acute blood clot” was found during a CT scan following swelling in her upper left leg, her campaign said in a statement. Boebert, R-Colo., […]
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has promised to pardon many of his supporters convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol if he’s elected in November. Further down the ballot in the 2024 elections, several convicted rioters and others who were involved in the lead-up to the Capitol attack are […]
Wisconsin voters on Tuesday approved a pair of Republican-backed constitutional amendments that will change how elections are run in the critical battleground state, according to projections from The Associated Press. The first measure, labeled on the ballot as Question 1, will ban the use of private funds in election administration — often referred derisively to […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Tuesday he was “outraged and heartbroken” by the killing of seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers, delivering some of his strongest criticism of Israel since the start of its war with Hamas. “This conflict has been one of the worst in recent memory in terms of how many aid workers have been […]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Former President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his campaign will address the issue of abortion next week, just after a Florida court paved the way for a six-week ban on the procedure. At a campaign rally here, Trump addressed a question from NBC News: “Do you support the six-week abortion ban […]