House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) walked back comments in which he claimed that President Donald Trump was an FBI informant against disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Johnson suggested Monday that he misspoke in his original remark. “I don’t know if I used the right word,” Johnson told reporters at the Capitol. “I said, ‘FBI informant,’ […]
For TV news liberals, one-upping competitors while venting their anti-Trump bias seems a requirement, especially for the big shots who host the weekly public affairs shows. Consider former Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos, who on Sunday was hosting ABC’s This Week for the first time since Aug. 3. Outdone on the Trump Derangement Syndrome spouted by […]
The hosts of The View complained Monday about the prescription requirement to receive COVID-19 booster vaccines. During Monday’s episode, the first of the show’s new season, the hosts retroactively discussed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hearing from last week. “[Kennedy] is not a doctor. I went to get a COVID shot […]
Adults in the United States shifted their opinions on economic systems in a poll that finds the favorability margins of capitalism versus socialism are narrowing. Gallup released a poll Monday that found 54% of those surveyed had a positive opinion of capitalism. This was the lowest approval rating in the six years Gallup has polled […]
A federal judge on Monday approved a settlement in a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice accusing North Carolina election officials of failing to maintain accurate voter registration records. The settlement between the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and the North Carolina State Board of Elections was approved by U.S. District Judge Richard Myers. The […]
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a harsh dissent to the high court’s decision that lifted a lower court’s order and gave federal officers more leeway to conduct immigration enforcement stops in the Los Angeles area. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a district court’s order that […]
The House Oversight Committee received a slew of documents from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, including the 2003 “Birthday Book” that included a sexually suggestive note purported to be from President Donald Trump. The committee received the first set of documents on Monday in response to Chairman James Comer’s (R-KY) subpoena from Aug. 25. […]
Justice Brett Kavanaugh warned judges Monday that the role of the judiciary in immigration legal disputes is not to set policy, sending the Supreme Court‘s latest warning to lower courts via its emergency docket. Kavanaugh’s comments came in a concurrence of a 6-3 order lifting restrictions that a federal district court in California placed on […]
WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Monday, readers! As the Trump administration weighs new sanctions on Russia, Energy Secretary Chris Wright has indicated additional measures will be contingent on Europe ending its imports of Russian energy products. Meanwhile, OPEC+ has said it will continue to pump more oil into the global markets next month, […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s (D-CA) slick style, celebrity swagger, and unabashedly liberal politics have given California Republicans a villain to go after over the years. But now, those same traits, plus a very public pushback against President Donald Trump‘s policies, have turned him into a Democratic superstar with a national spotlight and social media megaphone. That has opponents of […]
