The Kennedy Center is temporarily suspending free public tours of the performing arts venue after a volunteer tour guide spoke with the New York Times about President Donald Trump‘s efforts to gut the cultural institution. An internal memo said the center was placing a “temporary pause” on the tour program, starting Friday. Brooks Boeke, director […]

They’re not elected to Congress yet, but the socialist candidates who won Democratic primaries earlier this year have already hit the campaign trail to stump for like-minded candidates across the country in an effort to reform the Democratic Party image. Ahead of the Aug. 4 primaries in Michigan and Missouri, candidates backed by the Democratic […]

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) has restored voting rights to 66,085 Virginians with previous felony convictions since taking office, she announced Friday. Virginia’s constitution automatically and permanently strips voting rights of all convicted felons, making them ineligible to perform duties such as voting or serving on a jury after they complete their prison sentence. The one […]

The Indiana Republican leader in the state Senate announced on Friday that he will not seek reelection to his leadership position after President Donald Trump successfully primaried several of his colleagues to buck his redistricting agenda.  Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray’s defiant opposition to Trump’s mid-decade redistricting agenda attracted the president’s full fury last […]