Taylor Swift once dubbed her “Trump in a wig,” but Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) isn’t joining in on criticism of the music superstar, with her lauding the singer as “very talented.” Blackburn was asked about the media firestorm centered on Swift during a Wednesday interview on Newsmax. But while in recent days many conservative critics...
Conservative legal commentator George Conway blasted The New York Times on Wednesday for the framing of a piece analyzing the political "strategy" of former President Trump at court appearances during his bid for the White House in 2024. "Our reporter Jonathan Swan analyzes Donald Trump’s campaign strategy in the courtroom," the Times wrote in social...
Story at a glance A third of U.S. adults use the short-video sharing platform TikTok, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday. Findings of the 5,733-person survey show that YouTube is still the most popular social media platform in the country, with more than 83 percent of adults saying they visited the...
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley leads President Biden by 5 points in a hypothetical head-to-head 2024 match-up, according to a poll released Wednesday, but she trails him by 7 points in a five-person race including third-party candidates. In the Quinnipiac University national poll, Haley’s popularity among independents would boost her numbers in a one-on-one match-up...
White House adviser John Podesta will replace John Kerry as the nation's lead climate diplomat, the White House announced on Wednesday. “We need to keep meeting the gravity of this moment, and there is no one better than John Podesta to make sure we do,” White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, in a written...
Many predicted early on that Hamas’ vicious attack of Oct. 7 and Israel’s subsequent brutal retaliation in Gaza would herald a broader Middle East conflagration with the Iranian Shia-allied world. It appears the regional unraveling has arrived. Most recently, Yemen’s Houthi rebels allied with Iran have attacked international shipping routes, with America and Great Britain responding with aerial bombardments on Yemeni...
The family of a soldier recently killed in Jordan broke down during a call Tuesday with President Biden. In a video by the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Shawn Sanders and Oneida Oliver-Sanders take a call from the president in which he expresses his condolences over the death of their daughter Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders in a suicide...
The White House on Wednesday said it believes the Islamic Resistance in Iraq was responsible for a deadly drone attack in Jordan that killed three American service members. “We believe the attack in Jordan was planned, resourced and facilitated by an umbrella group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which contains multiple groups, including Kata’ib...
CNN’s Jake Tapper mocked the unfounded conspiracy theories emerging from the far right about pop star Taylor Swift, the NFL and the Democratic Party on Tuesday. “Far-right conspiracy theorists certainly don't seem to be following Taylor Swift's advice to just 'Shake It Off,'” Tapper said on CNN’s “The Lead.” “In fact, some on the right...
President Biden’s approval rating dropped to 38 percent in January as Americans report growing concerns over the situation at the U.S. southern border. A poll from Reuters/Ipsos found Biden’s approval rating 2 points down from December, when it was 40 percent. Biden has not reached above a 50 percent approval rating in Reuters/Ipsos polls since August...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is set to hold a daily press briefing Wednesday. The White House has pushed Congress for more funds to help address the migration crisis at the southern border, though House Republicans have voiced continued opposition to a compromise proposal being negotiated by senators from both parties. Meanwhile, Rep. Chip...
More than 260 congressional Democrats called on the Supreme Court to reverse two lower court rulings regarding a widely used abortion pill, saying the opinions threaten the congressionally mandated drug approval process. In a friend-of-the-court brief, the lawmakers argued that Congress designated the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as the expert federal agency with authority...
We need to look beyond the usual thinking: that the six conservative justices on the court — three of whom owe their position to Trump — could not possibly countenance affirming the Colorado disqualification case.
The spotlight will be on Gobbler's Knob in western Pennsylvania early Friday morning, when handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil will announce whether he saw his own shadow.
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after he allegedly killed his father and posted a video on YouTube holding a decapitated head and spouting right-wing conspiracy theories. Justin Mohn, 32, was arraigned at 4 a.m. Thursday on charges of murder in the first degree, abuse of a corpse and possession of an instrument of a...
A former Trump administration official is in critical condition after being shot in an attempted carjacking in downtown Washington, D.C., earlier this week, a spokesperson for his family confirmed to The Hill. Mike Gill, a married father of three who worked at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission during former President Trump's White House tenure,...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday blasted Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, over the company's content moderation policies, specifically regarding children and teenagers, which was the subject of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. “Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don’t mean it to be so, but you have blood...
A growing number of conservative voices are encouraging House Republicans to drop their campaign to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, arguing the GOP has not met the constitutional bar for removing him from office. Articles of impeachment for Mayorkas accuse him of violating immigration laws that require the detention of all migrants — something...
Less than 20 percent of Americans say they know how much they will have to pay before receiving health care treatments, according to a report. The Bentley-Gallup Business in Society Report survey, released Wednesday, found that 79 percent of Americans do not know the cost of their health care before receiving care, while just 17 percent said...
The chief executives of five major social media companies are set to appear before senators Wednesday for a highly anticipated hearing on the harms children and teens face online. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X CEO Linda Yaccarino, TikTok CEO Shou Chew, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and Discord CEO Jason Citron will appear before the Senate...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) denounced a House committee’s vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as a “sham" on Wednesday and said House Republicans are pushing it only to “appease” former President Trump. Schumer condemned the House impeachment proceedings as “absurd,” signaling that Senate Democrats will likely bury articles of impeachment against...
Private payrolls came in well shy of expectations in January amid broader strength in the labor market, new data shows. The number of workers added to company payrolls increased by 107,000 in January, below the median forecast of around 150,000, according to the ADP National Employment Report published Wednesday. December jobs numbers were also revised...
GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley unveiled a new line of attack on former President Trump and President Biden’s age and mental acuity, calling them “Grumpy Old Men.” Haley’s campaign said in a Wednesday release that the series will feature various aspects of what the country should expect from Trump and Biden if they are the...
The House Select Committee on China will hear Wednesday from witnesses US Cyber Command chief Gen. Paul Nakasone, FBI Director Chris Wray, CISA Director Jen Easterly and National Cyber Director Harry Coker Jr. The hearing focused on the Chinese Communist Party's "Cyber Threat to the American Homeland and National Security." The hearing is slated to...
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