Former President Joe Biden gave his first post-presidency endorsement, urging Georgians to vote for Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. In a video posted on social media, Biden sang Bottoms’s praises, saying he’d “known her for a long time” and that she is “something special.” Bottoms served in the Biden administration […]
Gov. Kay Ivey (R-AL) issued a proclamation on Friday calling state lawmakers to hold a special legislative session reserved for redistricting next week and to reschedule the May 19 primary election. Alabama is the latest red state to consider redrawing its congressional districts in light of a landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down race-based […]
David Rivera, a former Florida Republican congressman who was once roommates with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was convicted Friday for his role in lobbying $50 million on behalf of Venezuela during the first Trump administration. Jurors found Rivera and his associate, Esther Nuhfer, guilty on all counts, including money laundering and failing to register […]
President Donald Trump has notified Congress that “hostilities” with Iran have “terminated”. His letter to both House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the Senate president pro tempore, comes 60 days after the conflict started on Feb. 28, and is designed to address a Friday legal deadline on war powers. The deadline […]
President Donald Trump is set to deliver a speech Friday to senior citizens at a charter school in The Villages, Florida, where he will tout his economic agenda ahead of the midterm elections. Trump is expected to highlight no taxes on Social Security, a measure attached to the Republican Party’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act […]
In the wake of another assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, Democrats and the media are citing a study with questionable sourcing that exaggerates the threat of right-wing extremism while downplaying political violence on the Left. That study, published last year by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in response to conservative activist Charlie […]
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that construction of a UFC arena, dubbed “The Claw,” will begin next week on the White House grounds. The platform will host UFC’s historic Freedom 250 fight, scheduled for June 14, the same day Trump turns 80. “Well, they have some of the greatest champions in the world. The arena, […]
President Donald Trump confirmed that an announcement on a federal solution to save Spirit Airlines will be coming at some point on Friday. “No institution has been able to” bail out the struggling airline, he told reporters. “I said I’d like to save the jobs, but we’ll have an announcement sometime today. We gave them […]
CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings clashed with MeidasTouch podcaster Adam Mockler during a fiery debate in which Jennings said, “Get your f***ing hand out of my face.” “Honestly, I’m not going to have this guy’s hand in my face,” Jennings said Thursday on CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip. Jennings and Mockler debated the Iran war […]
An unusual, and perhaps highly strategic, update appeared on California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra’s campaign website this week. Set off in bold red text and enclosed in a matching box, the post laid out a pointed line of attack against one of his chief rivals in the crowded primary race: billionaire Tom Steyer. What’s raising eyebrows […]
