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Ronna McDaniel was re-elected to a fourth term as the Republican National Committee on Friday after staving off challenges to her leadership, but she will now have to deal with bitter recriminations that burst out into the open at the RNC get-together in ...

Former President Donald Trump has launched a new attack on education with his proposed plan of action to revise how public school administrators and faculty members are put in place. In a new presidential campaign ad, Trump expressed a need for more...

What makes for a thieving culture? An overabundance of pickpockets? Tsunamis of burglary and shoplifting?Most definitely not. To truly gauge a society's larcenous leanings, many of us would posit, we need to look beyond the nimble-fingered and focus m...

According to CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig, the criminal charges filed against the five Memphis police officers accused of murdering 29-year-old Tyre Nichols by beating him to death are justifiably...

As the nation continues to reel over the disturbing footage of Tyre Nichols' deadly beating, his parents are now speaking out to share their reaction as well as their take on the course of action being taken to hold the officers involved accountable. ...

There are a lot of discussions in political and even religious circles these days about whether the marriage between Donald Trump and evangelical Christians is officially over. Prominent evangelical leaders are backing away from Trump heading into the 202...

In the wake of the Memphis Police Department's release of harrowing footage of the series of events that led to the death of Tyre Nichols, conservative Jason Whitlock is attempting to place blame elsewhere despite five police officers facing charges f...

News organizations won the release of police body cam video that shows the horrific moment when an intruder, "without warning or hesitation," whacked Paul Pelosi, the 82-year old husband of the now-former Speaker of the House, with a hammer, knock...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice Friday signaled it is conducting a criminal investigation of U.S. Rep. George Santos' campaign finances when it asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to pause its probe into the embattled New York freshman GOP lawmaker....

On Friday evening, the Memphis Police Department released body camera footage showing four since-fired officers brutally beating Tyre Nichols during a traffic stop. Nichols died later as a result of his injuries, and the officers behind the beating, who w...

Countless economists have warned that if the United States were to default on its debt obligations, a major financial crisis could result — one with international implications. But if members of Congress don't come to some type of agreement on t...

For months, Fox News and other right-wing media outlets relentlessly hyped former special counsel John Durham's probe of the Russia investigation. Durham, appointed by former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, conducted what was essentially an investiga...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk forced staffers to suspend the account of a...

I can't end the week without mentioning the twin massacres in California. The first was in Monterey Park, near Los Angeles. Eleven were killed. The second was in Half Moon Bay, near San Francisco. Seven were killed. Both were committed by elderly Asia...

Former President Donald Trump made a "secret" $1 million donation to the election audit conducted in Arizona following his false claims that the election was stolen from him, the Guardian reports. The audit was requested by Arizona GOP senators, a...

In the past, U.S. Supreme Court justices often had radically different views yet managed to disagree without being disagreeable. Liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and far-right socially conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, a Reagan appointee, vehemently...

Full video of the violent attack on Paul Pelosi last year, along with audio of his 911 call, were released after San Francisco Superior Court Judge Stephen M. Murphy ruled that the footage must be released to the public by the district attorney's offi...

When the U.S. Supreme Court released the results of its investigation of the leak of Justice Samuel Alito's opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, it revealed that it was unable to determine who the leak came from. The Court had ...

Legal experts are now weighing in on Thursday's bombshell, massive and months-long reporting from The New York Times that reveals, among several previously unknown allegations, that then-Attorney General Bill Barr and his special counsel, John Durham ...

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not mince words when South Carolina GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan urged her to "educate herself" after she proposed an amendment to a fossil fuel bill, HuffPost reports.The bill, according to Roll Call,...

Because major advertisers are avoiding Donald Trump's Truth Social, users are instead being exposed to a flood of ads from what the New York Times characterizes as...

A recording of a vulgar rant by a failed Republican candidate has thrown Nevada's GOP into turmoil.Newly elected GOP delegate Drew Hirsty was expelled by the state Republican Party Central Committee earlier this month for recording and sharing a video...

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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) isn't the only freshman Republican facing questions about his personal finances.An investigation conducted by News Channel 5 in Nashville has found that freshman Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) never complied with federal laws requiri...

Although former President Donald Trump continues to be the subject of multiple investigations, he has yet to be criminally charged with anything. But according to a new book by CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, federal investigators for the Southern District ...

A former U.S. attorney who knew that the Department of Justice during Donald Trump's administration was protecting the former president is off the hook for an ethics complaint that could have led to his disbarment.In the book...

Conservative pundit Sean Hannity claimed without evidence on Thursday that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter have...

Five Memphis, Tennessee police officers who were fired for what their chief called a...

Mid-way through a press conference held at the West Virginia State Capitol last Friday, during which Republican Dr. Rollan Roberts II announced his intent to run as a presidential candidate in 2024, his pregnant wife Rebecca fainted behind him.A video cli...

A new report from the New York Times details how former Attorney General Bill Barr's efforts to discredit the probe into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russian agents completely floundered.One particularly telling section of the Times' sto...

For the last year, President Joe Biden has released a record amount of oil from America's petroleum reserves in order to increase oil supply and lower the price of gasoline that skyrocketed at the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Some Republi...

U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY) allegedly made a social media post appearing to praise Adolf Hitler while referring to "the Jews and Black" people, and frequently made pejorative "jokes" about being Jewish according to friends interviewed b...

John Eastman, the far-right attorney, disgraced former law professor, former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and current chairman of the anti-LGBTQ National Organization For Marriage (NOM) is facing eleven counts of alleged ethics violatio...

Since 1977 John Durham has been a government prosecutor, first at the state level and five years later, at the federal level. Over the course of his 45 years he handled some of the most notable investigations in American politics, often examining the inne...

Political comedian Bill Maher, on his HBO show "Real Time," hasn't been shy about calling out what he views as culture war overreach on both the left and the right. Maher's politics lean liberal, and he has been a scathing critic of former...

During his four years in the White House, Donald Trump often claimed "executive privilege" in order to avoid cooperating with investigations he disliked. And he isn't the only far-right MAGA Republican who has used that concept. Someone who ma...

The New York Times recently conducted a poll of the Republican National Committee's 168 asking whether or not they'd be willing to endorse former President Donald Trump for president. According to the news outlet, only four members of that 168 exp...

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requested that all former presidents and vice presidents since Ronald Reagan's administration double-check their personal records for classified documents, CNN reports. The request comes after th...

Although Twitter's new owner Elon Musk has restored Donald Trump's @realdonaldtrump account, the former president has so far opted to keep his own Truth Social as his primary social media outlet. But Trump rival Ron DeSantis, who may be competing ...

Special counsel Robert Durham, appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr, uncovered possible financial crimes by Donald Trump but made no attempt to prosecute them, The New York Times reveals in massive, bombshell report published Thursday after a mont...

Effective altruism is an intellectual and charitable movement that aspires to find the best ways to help others. People dedicated to it rely on evidence and rational arguments to identify what they can do to make the most progress toward solving the world...

This month, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction issued revised recommendations for lower-risk alcohol consumption. The new guidelines state that no amount of alcohol is "safe" and that individuals should drink no more than two stand...

Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., spewed conspiracy theories about an environmental plan to conserve 30% of US land and waters by 2030 ahead of her election last year.Speaking at R-CALF, a convention for independent cattle producers, Hageman in August 2021 an...

Several congressional Republicans are swiftly moving past Tuesday's news that classified documents were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home, but still suggest there is something more suspicious about the documents found a...

When Mark Pomerantz was working as a special assistant to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, he vehemently disagreed with DA Alvin Bragg, Jr.'s decision to prevent a prosecution of former President Donald Trump. The Manhattan DA's Offic...

An amended Federal Elections Commission (FEC) campaign finance report from U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY) made headlines this week after it appeared to indicate the embattled freshman New York Republican lawmaker was withdrawing his previous claims of hav...

When U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle issued a ruling on the suspension of Andrew Warren, the Democratic Florida prosecutor suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis, he was critical of DeSantis but also said that he did not have the power to give Warren his job...

Donald Trump must have received an unwelcome update this week about the criminal investigation he's under in Georgia, because he's been raging online about the case for days. The twice-impeached former president posted a lie-filled rant about his ...