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In yet another explosive exclusive from The Daily Beast , a former girlfriend of Republican senate candidate Herschel Walker has come forward to tell the truth about the five hellish years she spent in a relationship with the former NFL running back. Cher...

We're starting this morning by looking at the two areas where intensive combat operations are underway: In the area around Bakhmut and along the line from Svatove to Kreminna. For eight months, Russia has been attempting to press toward Bakhmut from e...

Republicans may soon find out that the only thing worse than losing the House is winning it. That's because the foundation on which the GOP's new majority rests is as shaky as they come—and that's no mere opinion. It's an unassailabl...

The Navy's Red Hill facility is facing yet another contamination issue just one year after a fuel spill prompted the shuttering of multiple drinking water sources indefinitely that many communities in Honolulu and those living on Joint Base Pearl Harb...

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We begin today with Robin Givhan of The Washington Post writing about the mediocrity of U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker. Walker, a former football player, was born in 1962, which places him in a generation that often heard a kind of mantra from thei...

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Rep. Donald McEachin, a Democrat elected to represent Virginia's 4th Congressional District in 2016, died Monday at the age of 61 , just weeks after winning a fourth term. McEachin's chief of staff said in her statement, "Valiantly, for years ...

Singer-songwriter and keyboardist Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac has died at age 79. Her family released a statement on her Instagram page. "On behalf of Christine McVie's family, it is with a heavy heart we are informing you of Christine's ...

After nearly 40 years of silence, Mauna Loa, generally considered Earth's largest active volcano, is erupting on Hawaii's Big Island. Lava from the volcano's Fissure 3 that began to flow Sunday, Nov. 27, is now within three miles of Hawaii'...

Republicans aren't big fans of regulation, financial or otherwise. Unless you plan on opening your new credit union in a human womb, they're likely to agitate for a more or less hands-off approach. To be fair, too many politicians across the polit...

The Interior Department announced on Wednesday that three tribal communities will be relocated due to climate change-worsened erosion effectively making their homes uninhabitable. The Newtok Village and Native Village of Napakiak in Alaska will receive $2...

New Hampshire, a perennial swing state with outsized influence on American politics, will choose a new secretary of state on Dec. 7—and we need your help to ensure the right candidate, Democrat Melanie Levesque, wins. Campaign Action Granite State R...

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are staring down the double-barreled threat of multiple, critical deadlines and the knowledge that the House is going to be turned over to a raft of incompetent maniacs in a little more t...

On Sunday, the Shanghai Chenguang Stationery Company was one of several companies to issue a very strange statement . In order to "maintain National Security/Stability" and prevent Illegal acts, they were immediately halting the sale of ... paper....

It's "Kyrsten Sinema wore what to a major Senate vote?" time again. We've seen the schoolgirl kilt and sweater look the Arizona Democrat wore to curtsey while giving a thumbs down on a vote to increase the minimum wage. We've seen the ...

The Jan. 6 committee interviewed former Secret Service Assistant Director Anthony "Tony" Ornato on Tuesday about Donald Trump's actions on the day of the failed coup, including the allegation by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson that ...

Until the COVID-19 pandemic introduced contentious debates over mask-wearing and safety measures, school boards and their meetings weren't particularly partisan. In Florida the situation is now reaching critical mass in school board meetings, largely ...

Climate groups appear to be shifting their focus away from Congress and to any potential climate executive orders President Biden could put forth. Though the midterms were arguably a success for Democrats, Republicans are the ones who control the House. S...

In just a few minutes of listening to white supremacist and notorious Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, anyone would begin to hear the echoed sentiments of Fox News and various members of the Republican Party. The same racist, xenophobic "great replaceme...

UPDATE: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2022 6:29:30 PM +00:00 Joan McCarter The House has passed both bills, enforcing the contract ( 290-137 ) and mandating 7 days of paid sick leave ( 221-207 ). The fact that just three House Republicans voted to require leave for ...

Embedded Content If you're reading this, you don't need Daily Kos to tell you what a wretched nightmare Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been. Ever since joining the Senate, she's fought with fellow Democrats, opposed progressive priorities, and—...

Back in 1969, engineer and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke made a statement that speaks to the future of one particular technology and one matching bit of semantics. "If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs—t...

We're witnessing in real time what happens when a billionaire gets red-pilled . Elon Musk not only is demonstrating that he has no business taking over a corporation like Twitter, in which he has zero expertise or experience—taking the company i...

OnX is an app that's intended to help hunters find public land so they can go after deer, elk, or whatever they happen to be hunting. At first glance, that may not seem like news, but users of that app get an invaluable view of just who owns the prope...

The Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act Tuesday afternoon in a 61-36 vote, after easily defeating three trollish Republican amendments . The legislation will provide federal protections to same-sex and interracial marriages—that is, once the ...

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Greg Sargent/ WaPo: How Trump is handing white supremacists huge propaganda victories I contacted Kathleen Belew, the author of a history of white power movements in the United States, to talk about these undercurrents of the Fuentes story. Belew has an i...

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Apple CEO Tim Apple—that';s what Donald Trump calls him, and Donald Failing Real Estate Company is always right—does pretty well for himself. The chief executive formerly known as Tim Cook made almost $99 million last year, and he's the...

The Republican National Committee announced this week it plans to set up a team of advisers to review the party's midterm performance following the anticipated "red wave" that never materialized. According to Politico , the team of advisors wo...

On Monday, following delay after delay, the MAGA-controlled Cochise County, Arizona, board of elections missed its deadline to certify 47,000-plus (mostly conservative) votes. The move was seen by most as pure political theater from a deep-red county whic...

Depending on the news source you've followed on a very big and disturbing new case out of Riverside, California, it might be unclear to you whether or not Austin Edwards—the 28-year-old cop who allegedly catfished a teenager before killing her f...

For their attempt to stop the nation's peaceful transfer of power by force on Jan. 6, 2021, a jury has found the leader of the extremist Oath Keepers organization Elmer Stewart Rhodes and co-defendant Kelly Meggs guilty. Co-defendants Jessica Watkins,...

The Great Elon Tire Fire continues to blaze bright and stinky today. If you've been following recent coverage of blundering billionaire Elon Musk's takeover and (allegedly) unintentional dismantling of social media giant Twitter, it's probably...

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner spent much of Tuesday morning trying desperately to defend the network she works for, as well as Twitter, the $44 billion trash-fire social media platform Elon Musk bought at what seems to be the peak of his very public mid...

While Georgians flock to the polls in the state's Senate runoff between incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and the Republican Party's most incompetent candidate, Herschel Walker, one Georgia resident is on the attack—and Walker is in ...

President Joe Biden has asked Congress to intervene to avert a national railway workers strike before the strike deadline of Dec. 9. "I am calling on Congress to pass legislation immediately to adopt the Tentative Agreement between railroad workers an...

The Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday will meet with a key subject in its two-year-long investigation: Tony Ornato, former President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff for operations. Ornato transitioned from a long-time stint at the Secret Service to a r...

The U.S. Supreme Court's lawyer has just proven precisely why the court needs to be forced to adopt a code of ethics, the code by which every other federal judge must abide. In a letter to a pair of lawmakers, Supreme Court legal counsel Ethan Torrey ...

Jimmy Kimmel launched into his Monday evening monologue with both fists swinging. He took aim at former President Donald Trump's dinner a week ago at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump broke bread with Kanye "Ye" West and a guest Kimmel referred to as &#...

UPDATE: Tuesday, Nov 29, 2022 4:59:16 PM +00:00 Mark Sumner In response to Russia's constant threats and attacks on civilian infrastructure and residential areas, NATO is considering something that was off the table a year ago. URGENT: #NATO is discus...

Democrats were not supposed to do well this year: Everyone knows that the party in power almost always struggles badly in midterms. But that "almost" is the key word, because against all odds, Democrats had an extraordinary election, with major vi...

Nick Fuentes is boasting about his dinner with Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago alongside Kanye West last Tuesday. Trump himself is claiming he had no idea who Fuentes is, but is refusing nonetheless to denounce him. And while a handful of Republicans have chas...

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Following Wednesday's tabulation of ranked-choice votes in races where no candidate won a majority on Nov. 8, nine Democrats and eight Republicans in Alaska's state Senate announced the formation of a bipartisan majority coalition , similar to one...

Republicans love to distract and enrage voters in an effort to get them into the voting booth. This method has proved solid for conservatives and bad for everyone else (including their own constituents and those who vote for these Republicans). As Daily K...

On Monday, Donald Trump's former senior adviser and lie machine Kellyanne Conway met with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. It was unclear if she was compelled to meet with the committee or just dropped in after...