Former President Donald Trump praised members of the New York Police Department who stormed Hamilton Hall at Columbia University to remove protesting college students during a Wisconsin campaign event. “That’s one good thing that really happened. You saw it last night because New York was under siege last night. And these people, first, they were intense,” […]
Vice President Kamala Harris heartily attacked former President Donald Trump on Wednesday for paving the way to the state’s new abortion ban. Trump has vacillated on abortion in recent months, both taking credit for the Supreme Court‘s 2022 decision that rolled back the federal abortion protections included in Roe v. Wade and rankling anti-abortion Republicans […]
Six House races in New York are believed to be up for grabs for both Republicans and Democrats. With five of them being held by first-term Republican lawmakers, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley is working hard to ensure that the party does not lose ground to Democrats in November. Following a Tuesday meeting with […]
Delegates of the United Methodists voted overwhelmingly to repeal its opposition to LGBT clergy on Wednesday. The vote at the church’s General Conference, which tallied 692-51, saw the church remove its ban on “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from serving in the church as ordained or appointed ministers. This new rule will go into effect starting Friday […]
One House Democrat has been quietly making a splash in Washington despite his low profile as a member of powerful committees. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) has been representing Illinois’s 8th Congressional District, which includes many northwestern Chicago suburbs, since 2017. Now, he’s set to co-host a dinner Wednesday as a campaign event for President Joe […]
The Air Force is pursuing charges against disgraced leaker Jack Teixeira under military law, according to a service spokesperson. Teixeira, who was a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, pleaded guilty to federal charges against him in March for leaking hundreds of classified documents, and he was sentenced to a maximum of nearly 17 years […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) showed off a new “MUGA” hat during a press conference on Wednesday, with the hat’s initials standing for “Make Ukraine Great Again.” Greene’s hat is a nod to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hat, with her hat’s colors being blue and yellow, the colors of Ukraine’s flag. […]
A fundraiser aiming to throw a “rager” for the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, fraternity brothers who protected the American flag from pro-Palestinian protesters has raised tens of thousands of dollars. The effort was launched on Wednesday morning and has already raised over $65,000. The members of UNC’s Pi Kappa Phi fraternity protected the […]
Senate Democrats are reviving a long-standing endeavor to federally legalize marijuana after the Biden administration said it would reclassify the drug as a less dangerous one. Marijuana legalization proponents, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), see an opening for Congress to piggyback off the move. “Reclassifying cannabis is necessary, and it’s a long overdue […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called on President Joe Biden on Wednesday to take a “no-spoiler pledge” in mid-October, in which both candidates would agree to fund a 50-state poll and the weakest candidate in a head-to-head matchup against former President Donald Trump vows to drop out of the race ahead of the election. “Ultimately, I […]
