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Conspiracy theorist and self-described “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer continues to wield a jarring amount of power in the Trump administration....
There’s one issue that is gaining rare bipartisan support in a very divided DC: Outrage over the continued stonewalling of the full release of the...
It hasn’t been a great week for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education,...
Leading genocide scholars have ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide. In a resolution issued Sunday by the...
It hasn’t been a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed,...
You could say that Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce’s engagement, announced Tuesday in an Instagram post that has 17 million likes and...
Two days after experts officially declared that a famine is unfolding in Gaza, President Donald Trump has yet to acknowledge the devastating new...
President Donald Trump’s DC takeover has proven to be broadly unpopular among residents and seemingly counterproductive. But the president has never...
More than 20 state attorneys general have filed suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ), alleging the Trump administration is unlawfully seeking...
Laura Loomer, the far-right provocateur and conspiracy theorist who has described herself as a “proud Islamophobe,” has proven to have...
Melania and Donald Trump met Putin in Finland in 2018. Kremlin Pool/Planet Pix/ZUMA First Lady Melania Trump tends to be seen more often than she...
During his campaign for a second term in office, President Donald Trump claimed that he would leave abortion “to the states” if reelected. Trump...
On Monday night, President Donald Trump announced his new pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after firing the previous commissioner and...
Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023, the Israeli military has killed nearly 200 Palestinian journalists, according to the...
Dr. Phil McGraw, the daytime television psychologist-turned-Trump surrogate, really wants you to believe a ludicrous claim: He is just not that into...
A new class-action lawsuit filed by a coalition of immigration advocacy groups alleges that undocumented immigrants have been detained in “crowded,...
Federal agents detain an individual as he exits immigration court in New York. Michael Nigro/Sipa/AP Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is...
Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest...
Since resuming office, President Donald Trump has sought to rewrite American history, rejecting any signs of historical division and exalting some of...
On Friday, the Department of Veterans Affairs proposed a policy change that advocates for reproductive rights say could become one of the strictest...
The shock and outrage over President Donald Trump firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner because of weak jobs numbers seems...
Two months ago, a coalition of aid groups warned that Israel’s war on Gaza—and restrictions on food entering the strip—would cause mass...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long railed against antidepressants, and now he has very practical ways to attack them....
Sunday marked six months of President Donald Trump’s return to office. To celebrate, he and top Republicans kicked the hagiography into full gear....
President Donald Trump seems unfamiliar with the Streisand effect, the phenomenon of inadvertently drawing more attention to an issue by trying to...
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s fealty to President Donald Trump has, for the most part, seemed nearly unshakable. She has compared him to...
On Saturday night, Fox News went full-on state media. Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, sat down with the 47th president to...
One year ago today, a would-be assassin tried to kill Donald Trump at a presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. While he survived, one of...
The devastating floods that hit central Texas last Friday have now killed at least 120 people, including dozens of children, according to authorities,...
On Wednesday morning, the Labor Department quietly reposted grants aimed at getting women workers into fields like construction and manufacturing, two...
On July 4, tragedy struck Texas. A flash flood cresting at more than 20 feet killed at least 70 people across six counties in central Texas, according...
After leaving DC, with his business empire suffering, his relationship with President Donald Trump fractured, and his DOGE efforts deemed broadly...
It didn’t take long for conservatives to lose their minds after Zohran Mamdani’s apparent upset over Andrew Cuomo in the Tuesday night Democratic...
When the US Supreme Court decided to overrule Roe v. Wade three years ago, the ruling had sweeping consequences for public health, making pregnancy...
On Sunday, Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student jailed by immigration authorities for more than three months for his role...
On Saturday night, President Donald Trump announced to the world that the US carried out what he called “massive precision strikes” on three...
President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday that he does not plan to call Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) in the wake of this...
Democratic lawmakers are demanding Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer preserve the Women’s Bureau following recent reporting from Mother Jones that...
The Minnesota shooter who killed a state lawmaker and her husband and wounded another legislator and his wife reportedly had a list containing dozens...
Many Republicans quietly but noticeably skipped Trump’s military-slash-birthday parade on Saturday. According to a survey Politico did earlier this...
On Monday, as ICE swept Los Angeles with raids in President Donald Trump’s escalating drive for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, a...
Courtesy State of Firsts My red carpet interview with Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) at the Saturday premiere of a new documentary on her...
My red carpet interview with Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) at the Saturday premiere of a new documentary on her history-making election as the first...
President Donald Trump’s war on dissent is ramping up. As protests continue to unfold in Los Angeles over workplace raids conducted by Immigration...
Trump has made it official: He and Elon Musk are (probably) never getting back together. In an interview with NBC News on Saturday, the president was...
The chaos that unfolded in Los Angeles over the weekend was sparked by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at workplaces, a...
A new Trump-backed attack on domestic violence services just dropped—and this time, it’s targeting survivors’ pets. Tucked inside the 1,200-page...
When the Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL), Lori Chavez-DeRemer, testified before the House Appropriations Committee last month, she seemed...
Last month, after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka outside an immigration detention facility,...
Elon Musk is leaving DC not with a bang but a whimper…and, it appears, with some new enemies in the White House. In an interview that aired Sunday...