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What will Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) do after her shock resignation from Congress in January, announced on Friday? Good question. President...


Back in February, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) went to great lengths to justify his decisive vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Health and Human...


Remember the horrifying text messages that caught a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago last month? Well, it seems that...


The entrepreneurs who are part of the booming school safety industry face a cruel irony: they are dependent on the uniquely American epidemic of...


There was a time when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) compared President Donald Trump to Jesus Christ and called him “the greatest President of...


On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives will finally vote on the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act. If passed, the bill...


Megyn Kelly is known for offering absurd takes that nobody asked for. There was her insistence that Santa Claus is white, for example, and her claim...


More Epstein files could, in theory, be coming soon. That’s because, at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson will finally swear in...


On Monday night, the Senate passed a bill that marks the first step towards potentially reopening the government after the 42-day shutdown. For...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) keeps teasing a potential presidential run…again, and again, and again. It began in earnest last month, when, in an...

In anti-abortion Republicans’ latest attack on abortion pills, Florida’s attorney general is suing Planned Parenthood for allegedly...

An immigration enforcement officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago last month bragged about the incident in texts afterwards, according to court...

When Curtis Sliwa called me on Wednesday afternoon, the failed New York City Republican mayoral candidate sounded chipper, even a bit boastful....

Timothy Rodriguez has lived in New York all his life. But the notion of a Muslim mayor never entered the realm of possibility for him. That changed...

For the second time in a little over a week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers reportedly shot someone in Los Angeles, California....

In a wide-ranging Sunday night interview on CBS News’s “60 Minutes,” President Donald Trump put his desire for unchecked power on full display....

Where’s Obama, you ask? The better question may be, where’s Trump? Former President Barack Obama spent Saturday supporting Democratic candidates...

Anti-abortion advocates haven’t just played key roles in rolling back abortion rights in recent years. They also helped tank President Donald...

In a ridiculous social media post the day before he headed off to federal prison for what was supposed to be a more than seven-year sentence,...

Saturday’s “No Kings” protests were, as my colleagues chronicled, about as wholesome as you could imagine. There were inflatable animals. There...

In the Oval Office on Thursday, several Cabinet members and advocates for in vitro fertilization (IVF) gathered to claim that President Donald Trump...

Vice President JD Vance would like you to do anything but pay attention to those abhorrent leaked texts from young Republicans that Politico covered...

The Trump administration has suffered yet another in its series of recent legal losses—this time over its attempt to deploy National Guard troops in...

In Donald Trump’s second term, federal workers have gotten used to being fired and re-hired, and, in some cases, even fired again. As one...

On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump did something he has done many times before: He called for his perceived political enemies to be jailed....

In the latest reminder that nowhere is safe, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to “be all over” the Super Bowl, according to...

President Donald Trump is making good on his promise to invade more American cities. On Saturday, Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) announced that the Trump...

As Democrats and Republicans trade accusations over which party is responsible for the government shutdown, new polling suggests that President Donald...

One of the many casualties of the government shutdown is the critical jobs report administered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)—and much...

Twenty-five years ago today, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone for abortions. Now, the drug is more under threat than...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Sunday that he will abandon his chaotic reelection campaign to run the biggest city in the country. The...

Just days after the killing of Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk joined other right-wingers in ratcheting up his rhetoric. In a bizarre, downright dystopian,...

In yet another example of right-wingers calling for violence, a Fox News anchor this week suggested homeless people with mental illnesses should be...

Leading conservative activist Charlie Kirk died Wednesday after being shot while speaking to students at a university in Utah. He was 31 years old....

Kamala Harris is back…with a vengeance. The first excerpt of her forthcoming memoir, 107 Days, about her history-making presidential campaign after...

Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans get their way, more pregnant women will be joining their ranks....

Speaking at the Museum of the Bible on Monday, President Donald Trump repeated one of his favorite falsehoods as of late: That his deployment of the...

After his announcement this week that he would seek to eliminate “all vaccine mandates,” Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, made one...

It was a week of so much losing. Over the past week, President Donald Trump and his authoritarian agenda have sustained one loss after another in the...

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...
