An activist with the antiwar group CodePink said she had her cellphone knocked from her hand by a Republican congressman Tuesday when she questioned him about the Israel-Hamas war. Rep. Mike Ezell (R-Miss.) was walking in a hallway before a House committee when two people approached him. According to camera footage posted to X, one...
A new study estimates than more than 321,000 children lost a parent to drug overdose between 2011 and 2021 with the rate of deaths more than doubling in that time frame. The study published in the JAMA Psychiatry medical journal found that an estimated 321,566 children lost a parent to drug overdoses in the decade...
This important public service is now threatened by a new technology — online streaming
Former President Trump on Wednesday complained about the gag order limiting him from attacking witnesses, jurors and court staff in his New York hush money case, calling it unfair that others could speak out while he could not. "It is a really bad feeling to have your Constitutional Right to Free Speech, such a big...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday ripped pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses as either "dumb--es" or "terrorist sympathizers" and called on the Department of Justice to investigate who is funding the protest movement. “There’s two classes of people here. Antisemites: If you say, ‘We are Hamas,’ and you mean it, then you are a religious...
Former President Trump on Tuesday said he supports keeping the Federal Bureau of Investigations' headquarters in Washington, D.C., amid ongoing controversy over the bureau's new headquarters location. "THE NEW FBI BUILDING SHOULD BE BUILT IN WASHINGTON, D.C., NOT MARYLAND, AND BE THE CENTERPIECE OF MY PLAN TO TOTALLY RENOVATE AND REBUILD OUR CAPITAL CITY INTO...
Israel on Wednesday said it reopened a key border crossing into Gaza after it was closed off last weekend following a Hamas rocket attack that killed four Israeli soldiers, but the United Nations says crucial humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people is not yet getting through. Israel's Coordinator of the Government Activities in the Territories...
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, is mocking his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent candidate for president, as the famous family grapples with political division. In a series of videos posted to Instagram, which are meant to be funny and highlight Schlossberg’s support for President Biden, he impersonates voters...
After the chaos I had read about at other such college encampments, I certainly didn’t expect this one to be so sad and pathetic.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said doctors told him a parasite ate part of his brain, after experiencing memory loss and brain fog in 2010. The New York Times reviewed a deposition of Kennedy from 2012 that detailed his experience with his symptoms and the dead parasite. The Times reported that Kennedy started dealing with memory...
Former President Trump took a shot Tuesday at MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell, whom he saw at a New York City courthouse amid his first criminal trial, and said looks like "shit." "I spotted Ratings Challenged Lawrence O’Donnell, of MSDNC, in the Courthouse today. I haven’t seen him in years," Trump wrote late Tuesday on his...
What was once patently unlawful may soon be commonplace.
A Georgia appeals court agreed Wednesday to review a lower court’s decision not to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) from prosecuting former President Trump in his election interference case in the state. Revelations that Willis was in a romantic relationship with one of Trump’s top prosecutors caused a multimonth detour in the...
President Biden is set to travel to San Francisco and Seattle this week for a West Coast fundraising swing as he ramps up his campaign efforts. He will travel on Thursday to San Francisco and participate in two campaign receptions in the Bay Area on Friday. He will then travel to Seattle on Friday and...
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday that he does not plan to vote for former President Trump in November, suggesting he would write in another candidate instead. “Character is too important to me,” Ryan, who left Congress in 2019, told Yahoo Finance at the Milken Global Institute Conference. “And it’s a job that...
I know there is bipartisan leadership in Congress who stand ready to revive trade and increase U.S. engagement in the Western Hemisphere to ensure regional peace and stability.
Voters in a new poll say they are not familiar with President Biden’s domestic spending initiatives, with many sharing that they know nothing at all about major laws that have passed during this administration. A new Politico-Morning Consult poll asked voters how much they had seen, read or heard about the four major domestic policy...
Police began clearing a pro-Palestinian encampment on George Washington University’s campus early Wednesday morning, and the House Oversight and Accountability Committee announced it would be canceling a planned hearing on the Washington, D.C.'s government response to the demonstrations. According to the student paper, The GW Hatchet, hundreds of Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers descended on...
Like old buildings themselves, historic preservation standards need to be modernized to ensure they’re meeting today’s needs.
The Biden administration is warning it is likely to miss its Wednesday deadline to deliver a report to Congress detailing its assessment over Israeli actions in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip that could impact American military assistance to the country. The report is mandated by a national security memorandum issued by President...
In the clash between macro statistics and micro realities, Biden is losing.
Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley garnered over 128,000 votes in Indiana’s GOP presidential primary Tuesday, according to election results from Decision Desk HQ, despite suspending her White House bid in early March. While the Hoosier State race was called for former President Trump — with 78.3 percent of the vote — Haley pulled a...
Biden is keeping his promise to my parents of “never again.”
Politicians who appear to capitulate to the demands of the mob have much to lose and little to gain — unless your goal is to assist Trump.
President Biden’s reelection campaign launched a $14 million ad campaign for May, which will focus on reaching Black, Latino and Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) voters. The investments will cover the states the Biden campaign considers essential to victory, including the Midwest's "Blue Wall," the Sunbelt and the Southwest. The ads will...
