Santa’s going to have 60 extra seconds this year to make his super speedy cameo at Rep. Tim Burchett’s Christmas party — the Tennessee Republican says he’s extending his holiday festivities from 15 minutes, to a whopping 16 minutes. Burchett told ITK in an interview that at last year’s 15-minute inaugural bash in Washington, he...
The head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) joined a number of others online in sharply criticizing a "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL") skit that mocked House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik’s (N.Y.) line of questioning at a hearing last week on antisemitism at elite universities. “The skit was atrocious. The sentiment even more appalling,” ADL CEO...
Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said Sunday that a plea deal with federal prosecutors is “not off the table” as he faces 23 charges for allegedly inflating his campaign finance reports and misleading donors, among other accusations. “Look, in the essence of everything going on, a plea is not off the table, obviously, at this...
The House GOP’s Judiciary and Intelligence Committee chairs are preparing for a head-to-head debate over whose bill will reform the government’s warrantless surveillance powers as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) committed to have both proposals weighed on the House floor. The chairs of each panel are set to pitch the House GOP conference on their competing...
California state Assemblyman Vince Fong, a Republican, on Monday announced a bid for retiring Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) House seat in the Golden State. "It is my strong belief that the Central Valley must continue to be represented by proven, conservative leaders in Congress. In light of recent developments and in an attempt to unite...
The storm system that brought deadly tornadoes to Tennessee over the weekend has moved into the Northeast, bringing heavy rainfall and snow and strong winds to the region. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories to parts of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine through Monday evening as snow...
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie warned that a second Trump administration could be staffed with "a bunch of deranged sycophants" during a Monday morning appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. The former governor of New Jersey made the comments in response to Hewitt asking whether “we ought to have more clarity on who’s coming in...
White House national security spokesman John Kirby said the Biden administration is concerned about new reports that Israel used white phosphorus munitions supplied by the United States in an attack in Lebanon. “We’ve seen the reports, certainly concerned about that. We’ll be asking questions to try to learn a little bit more,” Kirby told reporters....
Our country is divided over the question of whether we should evaluate free speech claims in light of the messages or causes that speech seeks to advance.
A man from New Hampshire is facing federal charges after allegedly threatening to kill 2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, according to an affidavit filed on Saturday. The threats were sent in text messages to the Ramaswamy campaign, which alerted authorities. Though the affidavit redacted the name of the candidate involved, Ramaswamy senior adviser Tricia...
Prominent civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill announced she is leaving X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, due to the Elon Musk-owned platform reinstating far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s account. Ifill, a former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, announced her departure from the platform after encountering a post that...
Medicine and the health of our nation are set to suffer if we allow politics to compromise our mandate to treat patients to the best of our abilities.
President Biden visited Philadelphia on Monday to tout the benefits of a new grant that will allow the city to reopen three decommissioned fire companies and fund the salary and benefits of 72 firefighters. Biden announced the city would receive a $22.4 million Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant award. The money...
A new poll shows 1 in 5 registered voters are open to supporting third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his White House bid in 2024. The Monmouth University poll released Monday does not make clear the impact that his third-party candidacy would have on the race, with results indicating Kennedy pulls support equally from...
Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to immediately take up former President Trump’s federal 2020 election criminal case, urging the justices to weigh in on Trump’s immunity defense. Trump is attempting to toss the case by arguing he has presidential immunity from the four-count indictment, which accuses him of entering multiple...
Wisconsin Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski (D) is calling for a Republican who served as a fake elector for former President Trump to be removed from the state elections commission after admitting he was trying to overturn the 2020 election. In a letter sent to state Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R), Godlewski urged him to remove Robert...
YouTube remains the most widely used online platform by U.S. teenagers, followed by TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center. Some 93 percent of teens between 13 and 17 years old said they use YouTube, while 63 percent said they use TikTok, 60 percent said they use Snapchat and...
Close to half of U.S. teens said they are using the internet “almost constantly,” according to a Pew Research Center poll released Monday. Forty-six percent of teens said they are online almost constantly, on par with what Pew researchers found last year but nearly double the 24 percent who said they were online almost constantly...
The ethical propriety of doxxing should not be a left-right issue.
President Biden will speak Monday at Philadelphia’s Ladder 1 fire station, a company disbanded in the late 2000s, but now reopening through part of a $22.4 million FEMA grant to the city’s fire department. Two other fire companies in Philadelphia will also be able to resume operations with the funding. The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that Ladder...
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) is sounding the alarm over the health system in Gaza, warning the situation will worsen as the war rages on into the winter months. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated in remarks Sunday that he condemned the deadly attacks by militant group Hamas on Israel more than two months...
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), a 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, suggested in an interview that the impeachment inquiry into President Biden could make him “unelectable” as a general election nominee. Phillips said in an interview with Semafor published Monday that while he hasn't seen evidence suggesting Biden did anything wrong — a point stressed by the...
The latest iteration of negotiating text at this year’s global climate summit has dropped a previous version’s suggestion of a phaseout of fossil fuels. Instead, the latest draft text, introduced Monday, calls for “reducing” consumption and production of fossil fuels "in a just, orderly and equitable manner." A group of 80 countries, including the U.S.,...
The U.S. slammed China for "reckless disregard" and provocative action after Chinese coast guard boats shot water cannons at Philippine ships and collided with a vessel in the South China Sea over the weekend. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Chinese boats also deployed acoustic devices, or sound cannons, which can employ extremely loud sounds...
This court has no use for Trump’s attempts at delay.
