The terms of the premature primary debate of the general presidential election are about as favorable to Joe Biden as the president could possibly demand. The debate, hosted by CNN’s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper on Thursday night, will be closed to the public and feature an unprecedented two commercial breaks. Unlike past debates that […]
Democratic-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor lamented the Supreme Court decision she accused of “dismantling” the administrative state Thursday, a possible sign of what’s to come as rulings threaten to claw back more agency powers from the executive branch. Sotomayor, who stands with only two other ideologically similar jurists on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 Republican-appointed majority high […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) avoided condemning or endorsing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s role in Democratic primaries. AIPAC earned its biggest scalp this week when House progressive “Squad” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was dealt a landslide defeat in his primary against George Latimer. The group poured enough funds into the race to […]
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, seized on a never-Trumper’s slam of former President Donald Trump as an “escaped monkey from a cocaine study” during CNN’s pre-debate analysis on Thursday to call for an end to federal animal testing. “Whoever wins the presidential race must recognize that experiments on animals are failing […]
Prince Harry is set to receive The Pat Tillman Award at next month’s ESPYS, where he’ll be honored for founding the Invictus Games Foundation. The Pat Tillman Award was named after and created in honor of the former Arizona Cardinals player who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004. Tillman chose not to sign a contract […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is holding a rally in Wisconsin. Sanders, who ran against President Joe Biden in 2020, has since turned around and become a vocal supporter of him. His rally in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, is meant to whip up support for the president in the crucial swing state ahead of the November election. CLICK […]
The New England region of the U.S.-Canada border has seen a staggering increase in the number of immigrants caught attempting to enter the United States illegally, with people from 85 countries apprehended since last fall. Border Patrol agents in the New Hampshire, Vermont, and eastern upstate New York region intercepted more illegal immigrants in fiscal […]
The Social Security Administration is dropping a list of 114 obsolete and obscure jobs, such as reptile farmer and railroad telegraphed, as possible employment options for individuals applying for disability benefits. The list is used by the Security Disability Insurance and the Supplemental Security Income programs to determine whether or not an applicant can find […]
Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Samuel Alito took subtle jabs at each other in their opinions on the Idaho abortion decision released on Thursday. Jackson, who dissented in part to the ruling, said the decision was “not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho,” even though emergency rooms in Idaho will be able to carry […]
Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) did not vote for former President Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary earlier this year — but he also did not vote for any other candidate in the race. Kemp told CNN on the eve of the first presidential debate in Atlanta that he did not vote in the primary. […]
