While the news may be at least a brief reprieve for those seeking some good news on the legal front as it relates to reproductive rights, this decision just seems like a set-up.
Former President Trump’s conviction in the hush money case could turn some independent voters away from him, a new poll found. The Politico/Ipsos poll found that 21 percent of independents said they are less likely to vote for Trump after the conviction, adding that the guilty verdict in Trump’s hush money case is very important to...
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is pushing to require a warning label on social media platforms to advise users that social media has been connected to mental health risks for adolescents. Murthy in an opinion piece for The New York Times called for a surgeon general’s warning label to be placed on social media platforms, similar to...
The massive, ill-advised push by climate alarmists to transition almost overnight to "green" energy is incompatible with the huge amount of electricity AI will require.
It’s just so weird when the press decides to relax its standards selectively. Well, not really.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) made sure to line up an equal number of lawmakers from each side of the aisle to serve as co-sponsors when they joined forces on a White House ethics bill last month. That careful balance soon fell apart, however, after three...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has fanned the flames of the internal Democratic battle over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coming speech to Congress, questioning the wisdom of the invitation just days after it was endorsed by Democratic leaders in both chambers. Pelosi’s comments — and her decision to air them on national television — have...
The majority of voters in battleground House districts said they support the government passing laws aimed at improving safety for kids and teens online, according to a poll released Monday. There was strong bipartisan support for passing kids’ online safety rules, with both 88 percent of Democrats and 82 percent of Republicans saying they...
Jewish Democratic senators are alarmed by conservative Justice Samuel Alito's sympathy for basing government on Christian principles — something he expressed at a Supreme Court gala when he endorsed the idea of returning the nation to a place of "godliness." Democratic senators, including several Jewish lawmakers, fear Alito’s majority opinions in several high-profile cases, including...
The Biden campaign on Monday launched a battleground state ad that lambasts former President Trump as a “convicted criminal,” highlighting his numerous legal problems and his recent felony conviction in New York. The ad, titled “Character Matters,” will run on general market television across battleground states and on national cable. It is part of a...
Former President Obama said Sunday that he tends to avoid consuming media about politics amidst the testy 2024 election, telling a group of social media influencers that we live in a “cynical time.” Obama spoke at a Biden campaign fundraiser with the president on Saturday in Los Angeles, telling a select group of TikTok and...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) pointed to what he viewed as a prime example of voter fraud on Saturday in a Houston-area judicial race after a new election was ordered nearly two years after the fact. A Houston judge found last month that more than 1,400 votes in the 2022 180th District Court race were...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) will be issuing a mass pardon for more than 175,000 marijuana convictions on Monday. The pardons will be one of the country’s biggest acts of clemency involving the drug that’s now widely used recreationally. In an interview with The Washington Post, Moore said it will be a step to heal...
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley posted online announcing the death of her father on Father’s Day. “This morning I had to say goodbye to the smartest, sweetest, kindest, most decent man I have ever known,” Haley posted on the social media platform X, along with a photo of her hugging her father. She said...
The White House and former President Obama’s team disputed the characterization that President Biden froze up on stage at a Los Angeles fundraiser and had to be led off the stage by the former president. The New York Post wrote about the video of Biden under the headline “Biden appears to freeze up, has to...
The Democratic challenger for the Fort Bend County Precinct 3 commissioner in Texas is facing charges for allegedly creating fake social media posts writing racist comments directed at himself. Commissioner Andy Meyers, the Republican incumbent, requested the Fort Bend County district attorney’s office begin an investigation in October into the social media posts directed at...
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) encouraged the Supreme Court to “intervene” in former president Trump’s hush money case on Sunday, calling on the high court to hear an accelerated appeal of Trump’s conviction. Trump was convicted this month of 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents in relation to illegally covered up hush money payments made...
A majority of Black voters in Pennsylvania and Michigan say they would vote for President Biden in a hypothetical general election match-up, but a significant share of 2020 Biden voters support third-party candidates or say they are undecided, according to a poll released Sunday. The USA TODAY/Suffolk University polls, conducted June 9-13, include 500...
More than 170,000 people have traveled out of state to receive abortion care since January of last year, according to new data from the Guttmacher Institute, a figure underlined by the increasing difficulty to access care in some states. Out-of-state care accounted for more than 15 percent of the estimated 1 million clinician-provided abortion procedures...
Two people were killed and multiple were injured in a shooting at a Juneteenth celebration in Texas on Saturday, police said. An altercation broke out between two groups at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, Texas, and someone began shooting, Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks said in a press conference. Banks said the victims...
Former President Trump is turning up the heat on Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) as Senate Republicans stand on the precipice of winning back the majority. During Trump’s visit with Senate Republicans last week, Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) urged the former president to do more to “hammer” the two Democratic red-state incumbents....
