President Biden on Tuesday hosted the "Tennessee Three" at the White House, telling the Democratic lawmakers that the Republican efforts to expel them from office were “undemocratic.” Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, the two Tennessee lawmakers who were once expelled from the state’s legislature, and Rep. Gloria Johnson, who was subject to expulsion, sat...
Nearly half of Americans support a potential ban on TikTok, but there are clear divisions between age groups and political affiliation. That was the finding of a new Wall Street Journal poll published on Monday, as momentum is building in Congress to ban the Chinese-owned social media platform due to security concerns. The poll found...
Tucker Carlson’s shocking exit from Fox News deals a blow to the top-rated cable news network, depriving it of its biggest prime-time star and his proven ability to deliver ratings. Fox now will have to figure out who will replace Carlson in what is widely seen as a watershed moment for the network’s editorial strategy....
Some Texas lawmakers want to turn rural hospitals, police stations and other critical infrastructure into backup power plants for their communities. The bipartisan Senate Bill 1212 seeks to stabilize the state’s unreliable grid by taking a different approach than the package passed earlier this month almost entirely by Senate Republicans. In a rare display of bipartisanship, the...
President Biden took aim at GOP education policies during a Monday event at the White House celebrating 2023 Teacher of the Year Rebecka Peterson. Peterson, a calculus teacher at Union High School in Tulsa, Okla., was celebrated at the White House with speeches from Briden, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and first lady Jill Biden. Biden...
We must do better. The fiscal cliff is not that far away. And the risk of it occurring is growing with each passing debt ceiling debate.
Today, new diplomatic challenges, once a tide, now a tsunami, urgently demand a more agile, multidisciplinary and anticipatory strategy.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Friday praised a gas pipeline project and called for an independent government agency to proceed “expeditiously” on it. Granholm’s letter in support of the Mountain Valley Pipeline — a project that has also been pushed by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) — comes amid tensions between the senator and administration on...
President Biden on Monday told reporters that he will officially launch his reelection bid "soon," as politics watchers are expecting an announcement as early as Tuesday. “I told you I’m planning on running. I’ll let you know real soon,” the president told reporters when asked about his 2024 plans at the White House. His updates...
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Monday asked GOP megadonor Harlan Crow to provide a list of flights and other gifts he reportedly gave to Justice Clarence Thomas over the past two decades. Wyden questioned whether Crow, a Dallas-based real estate developer whose friendship with Thomas has been thrust into the spotlight following...
White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner headliner Roy Wood Jr. says he’ll need to “throw out the whole damn script” after the dramatic exits of cable news stars Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon from their respective networks. The comedian and “Daily Show” correspondent quipped Monday that he’d likely have to rework his material ahead of...
Former President Trump on Monday mocked what he called an “emergency Round the World tour” from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as the governor takes off on a multistop international trip amid 2024 speculation. “The ‘Consultants’ are sending DeSanctus, and demanding he go immediately, on an emergency Round the World tour of U.S representative population...
Tucker Carlson, who parted ways with Fox News on Monday in a move that shocked the political media landscape, concluded what ended up being his final segment as host on the cable news channel by telling viewers he would return this week. “We’ll be back on Monday,” Carlson, the top-rated cable news host in the...
The Biden administration on Saturday held its first “Nationwide Vaccination Day,” running vaccine pop-ups across 21 cities to boost vaccination rates in Black communities. The event was part of the White House’s broader “We Can Do This” COVID-19 Vaccine Public Education Campaign. Community organizations like the Black Nurse Collaborative, Top Ladies of Distinction, and 100...
The Biden administration on Saturday held its first ever “Nationwide Vaccination Day,” running vaccine pop-ups across 21 cities in a bid to boost vaccination rates in the Black community. The event was part of the White House’s broader “We Can Do This” COVID-19 Vaccine Public Education Campaign. Community organizations such as the Black Nurse Collaborative,...
When justices deliver opinions that affect an entire state, with implications for an entire nation, we assume they are doing what is in the best interests of all, not a few.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argues in a new op-ed that Republicans’ stance on the debt ceiling is “playing into the hands” of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. “Today the competition between democracies and autocracies has grown more intense. And by undermining America’s credibility and the pre-eminence of the dollar,...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined a request by oil companies to transfer a series of state lawsuits to federal court, where the energy companies had hoped for more favorable legal terrain. The justices refused to hear appeals by Exxon, Chevron and Suncor Energy of lower court rulings keeping lawsuits against them in state courts....
It has gotten very disheartening, even disgusting, to watch the never-ending Thomas carnival of corruption bring shame on the Supreme Court.
President Biden approved Monday a disaster declaration for Oklahoma after tornadoes ripped through parts of the state and killed at least three people. The president's action makes federal funding available for recovery efforts in the affected areas. The storms that moved through the central U.S. late last week left at least three people dead and...
Republicans pledged during the State of the Union to take Social Security and Medicare off the table in debt ceiling negotiations, but Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) new plan demands that older and working Americans pay for the GOP’s miserly fiscal agenda in other ways. The House Republicans’ recently released proposal for lifting the debt ceiling would...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is accepting a comedian’s apology for snubbing her during her first House run and mistakenly calling her “Alexis.” Standup comic Hari Kondabolu recounted his snafu in his YouTube special “Vacation Baby,” which premiered last week. The New York City-born performer and “The Problem with Apu” writer said back in 2017 he received a message...
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up two cases that weigh whether public officials on their personal social media accounts can constitutionally block users when they use the account to post about their job. The cases come two years after the high court dismissed as moot a lawsuit over former President Trump blocking users...
President Biden announced on Monday that his domestic policy adviser Susan Rice will be stepping down from her role. Rice, who has been in the role since the beginning of the administration, handled politically-charged issues from gun violence to student loans in her portfolio. Biden praised her in a statement, saying, “there is no one...
President Biden is expected to name senior White House official Julie Chavez Rodriguez to lead his reelection campaign, according to multiple reports, as he gears up to launch a 2024 campaign as early as this week. Rodriguez, who is senior advisor and assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental...
