Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) took a jab at former President Trump over his past remarks about Chinese President Xi Jinping, showing a "Trump ❤️ Xi" poster during a hearing on Wednesday. “The enemies of constitutional democracy and freedom seek to destabilize the American government. The tyrants of the world are targeting Joe Biden and promoting...
Country music singer-songwriter Randy Travis and other music industry figures are slated to testify Wednesday on the role of radio stations in paying royalties to recording artists before a House Judiciary subcommittee. The “Forever and Ever, Amen” singer and SoundExchange CEO Michael Huppe will deliver remarks before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property...
Granting clemency embodies much more than mercy — it's about mitigating injustice and prioritizing people over punishment.
Donald Trump Jr. shut down talk of a last-minute push for his father to choose Nikki Haley as his running mate. “Nikki Haley, who served as the puppet of Democrat billionaires and warmongerers, would be a wonderful choice [if] my dad wants to get impeached within about 7 seconds of being sworn in,” Trump Jr....
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is slated to deliver remarks Wednesday on security at the southern bother in Arizona. The event is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Watch the video above.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday said he thinks former President Trump should avoid calling the 2020 presidential election “stolen” during the debate on Thursday. In an interview slated to air Wednesday night on NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Leland Vittert asked Johnson how he would advise Trump to answer the question, “Who won the last election?”...
President Biden's "parole in place" program, which allows undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens to adjust their status to that of lawful permanent residents, could face legal challenges due to its potential to enable marriage fraud and its lack of congressional approval.
Instagram accidentally changed users’ settings to limit political content automatically, even if those users had turned the option off, the company confirmed Thursday. Several Instagram users spoke out after noticing their settings had been changed to limit political content, an option created by parent company Meta in February, ahead of Thursday’s first 2024 debate...
The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that the government must start drafting Haredi men immediately, and the Haredi population is projected to be 20 percent of the overall Israeli population by 2030.
A progressive group unveiled five recommendations for President Biden ahead of the first presidential debate of the general election season Thursday. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) sent Biden a debate memo outlining the group's suggestions for the president to succeed in the face-off against former President Trump. The group's top recommendation is for Bident...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the House Judiciary Committee plans to file a lawsuit to force Attorney General Merrick Garland to turn over audio recordings of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. The suit would be the latest effort to secure the tapes after the Justice Department informed Congress it would not be...
Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker predicted reporter Evan Gershkovich’s trial will end in a “bogus” conviction, as court proceedings begin this week after 15 months of pretrial detention in Moscow. “To even call it a trial,” Tucker wrote Tuesday in a letter from the editor, “is unfair to Evan and a continuation of this...
A group of House progressives is forming a caucus that aims to reframe the country’s immigration debate. The group consists of Reps. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) and will be named the Congressional Caucus on Global Migration, NBC News first reported. The caucus is hoping to shift the conversation from...
Justice Samuel Alito railed against the White House in a dissenting Supreme Court opinion Wednesday, accusing the Biden administration of leading a “campaign to coerce Facebook” when it attempted to moderate misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic on social media. Joined by fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, Alito dissented from his six colleagues...
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and her primary challenger, Wesley Bell, are locked in a dead heat in what is expected to be a competitive primary in August, according to a poll released this week. The survey, conducted by the polling firm The Mellman Group for the organization Democratic Majority for Israel showed Bell, the St....
With Donald Trump’s felony convictions inscribed in the historical record and the first debate of the presidential cycle about to take place, time is ripe for both more accountability and additional iconoclasm. First, accountability. I recently argued here against the proposition that voters would punish Trump if a jury of his peers convicted him of felonies. How...
Iran's upcoming presidential election is a democratic charade, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei retaining his grip on power and his son Mojtaba waiting in the wings, while the nation faces economic hardship, a women's movement, and a nuclear ambition that has led to sanctions and increased international isolation.
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced some Medicare beneficiaries will save money on 64 prescription drugs for the third quarter of this year as part of a program intended to rein in massive price hikes. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which President Biden and congressional Democrats ushered into law in 2022, requires drug companies to pay rebates to...
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is slated to hold a hearing Wednesday on fighting workplace antisemitism at universities. The event is scheduled to begin at 10:15 a.m. EDT. Watch the video above.
As many municipal landfills belch out gas from decomposing organic matter, they are also releasing toxic "forever chemicals" into the air, a new study has found. Scientists measured unexpectedly high levels of airborne per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at three dumps they surveyed — demonstrating the ability of these persistent contaminants to escape into the...
Restaurants and bars across the nation’s capital are preparing to host watch parties for the most highly anticipated political event so far this year: the first debate between President Biden and former President Trump. The Thursday debate, set to air on CNN, represents a rematch for the same two candidates from 2020, but those debates...
Voters in key states who will likely decide the election trust former President Trump more than President Biden to handle threats to democracy, according to a new survey. The poll, conducted by The Washington Post/Schar School, surveyed voters across six swing states and identified a subgroup of respondents labeled as “deciders.” It found that 38...
The latest season of a series that combines dining and democracy — and showcases lawmakers chowing down on some of their favorite foods — is aiming to show that even in fractured times, bipartisanship can taste delicious. "Breaking Bread," which premieres its second season on July 4 on Bloomberg Originals and PBS's "The Open Mind," features host Alexander Heffner hitting...
Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for a "catch and kill" scheme to suppress embarrassing stories during the 2016 campaign, while the wealthy are rarely held accountable for financial crimes, and the poor are over-prosecuted for petty theft.
Democratic strategist James Carville said Steve Bannon, who is set to report to prison next week, should be given a private cell because any cellmate could make an argument that rooming with Bannon is “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment. Carville joined MSNBC’s Ari Melber Tuesday to discuss Bannon’s conviction and the former...
