Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) is utilizing a text-to-voice application in order to speak on the House floor as she navigates a degenerative brain condition she was recently diagnosed with. Wexton was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy which affects her ability to speak, hear, and move. When she testified before Congress on Monday, she used the […]
David Pecker, a key witness in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, was “swatted” on the day of his testimony, according to a Reuters report. In an April 25 email to a local newspaper, a person under the name “Jamal” said they had tied up Pecker’s wife and killed someone at the address […]
Pro-Palestinian protesters have broken down barricades in attempts to reach the Met Gala, an annual event in New York City hosted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The “Citywide Day of Rage for Gaza” was scheduled to begin at Hunter College before moving north toward the Met. The Met Gala is hosted each year on […]
A new animated Star Wars television series features a Jedi who is nonbinary, with other characters referring to this Jedi as “them.” The new Disney+ series, Tales of the Empire, consists of six shorts, with one of the episodes featuring the nonbinary Jedi. The character is about to surrender to an Inquisitor, a character that […]
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill continued his campaigning for President Joe Biden on social media following his White House visit. “Hey Florida Democrats, Mark Hamill here,” he said on Saturday in a video thanking the Florida Democratic Party for an invite to an event. “I wanted to send along a message. I have a lot […]
Thousands of protesters filled Dublin, Ireland‘s streets on Monday marching to chants of “Out, Out!” The Irish demonstrators were rallying to fight their government’s immigration policies while marching and waving Irish flags. “I’m here for my children and I’m here for my grandchildren. I’m here to keep Ireland for the Irish and our Celtic race,” […]
New York prosecutors who brought the criminal hush money trial against Donald Trump said Monday that they expect to bring additional witnesses to the stand for at least two more weeks, as the former president openly chided the judge’s latest threats of jail time. Trump concluded his day in court by suggesting he is fully […]
Top officials in former President Donald Trump’s campaign for reelection believe the relatively blue states of Minnesota and Virginia are in play for the GOP ahead of the 2024 general election. Since 2008, Virginia has voted for a Democratic president consistently. Minnesota has been voting Democrats into the presidency for much longer, having voted consistently […]
The House swore in its newest Democratic member on Monday, bringing the party’s caucus back to 213 members and temporarily bringing Republicans’ already slim majority down to just one vote. Rep. Tim Kennedy (D-NY) was sworn into office after lawmakers completed their first votes of the week just six days after Kennedy won a special […]
Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan shared that he would be voting for President Joe Biden come November. In an op-ed published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Duncan, who testified against Trump in his election interference case in Georgia, expressed his disappointment watching “an increasing number of Republicans fall in line behind former president Donald […]
