The Democratic leader of the Maryland Senate is facing pressure, ridicule, and even a call for his ouster from members of his own party after he torpedoed a bid to draw new congressional lines to combat national Republicans. Citing perceived legal and political risks, Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson informed state lawmakers this week that […]

Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday threw her support behind the state Democrats’ ballot measure to redraw California’s congressional map. Proposition 50, the ballot measure designed to approve the Democrat-led agenda to redraw California‘s congressional map, appears likely to pass in the special election next week based on polling data. Harris released a video of […]

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said that she is moving toward launching a Texas Senate run if Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) loses his competitive Republican primary. “I’m going to be flat out with you and tell you that I don’t think that there’s a Democrat that can take out Cornyn,” the representative told Politico, “I think […]

Pope Leo XIV suffered one of the greatest insults of his pontificate this week, though the heresy was not theological. Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, gave the pontiff, a high-profile fan of the Chicago White Sox baseball team, customized memorabilia of the organization’s crosstown rivals. “I had the joy […]