After the Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a major defeat by upholding birthright citizenship last month, an angry Trump took to Truth Social to urge Republican lawmakers to overturn it with legislation. “Congress should start TODAY,” Trump demanded , adding: “No long and
As President Trump heads to Turkey for this week’s NATO summit, he is facing growing pushback from Republicans — and Israel — who oppose admitting the ally back into the F-35 fighter jet program, as long as Ankara holds Russian air defense systems. The president has said he is
“Religion is back in our country, bigger and stronger than it has been in many, many years,” President Donald Trump announced to the Faith and Freedom Coalition on June 26. “Religion’s really …”—he made a rocket-ship sound effect and thrust his finger skyward—“going up. If that
Every summer, the Supreme Court hands down its most consequential rulings, and every summer, the conservative majority assures us that whatever it decided was compelled by history and the original meaning of the Constitution, and not partisan preferences. This most recent term
President Trump will arrive in Ankara on Tuesday for a NATO summit that comes amid a sea of troubles for the alliance. The war in Ukraine has no end in sight, regardless of Trump’s campaign-trail pledge to solve it on Day One when he returned to power. Washington’s
Emergency dispatch audio indicating that someone at Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) home in Washington, D.C., suffered “cardiac arrest” earlier this month has raised questions about when the former GOP leader will return to the Senate or whether he will return at all.
President Trump is facing pushback from Republicans over his administration’s decision to strip temporary protected status (TPS) from Haitian migrants living in the U.S. following the Supreme Court’s decision last month to uphold the policy. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) urged
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) and former Wayne County health director Abdul El-Sayed are set to square off on Tuesday night in their first one-on-one debate since state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) dropped out of the Senate Democratic primary this weekend. McMorrow’s exit has
Americans are nearly three times as likely to be concerned rather than excited about the growing footprint of artificial intelligence in society, according to a new biweekly survey about the public’s sentiment on the advancing technology. The “Americans on AI” poll, first
Donald Trump ended the tortured saga around his gala for America’s 250th anniversary in typical fashion. Trump claimed 150,000 people attended his final speech, which was humiliatingly contradicted by videos of the event. Then Trump made it worse. During the speech he insisted
Louisiana Rep. Troy Carter said the influential group of Democrats will overcome the serious threats to its power.
President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen on Monday said he and the president have reconciled after he turned on his former boss. Cohen joined John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby for Friday’s "Cats & Cosby Show" on 77 WABC to talk about the president and said the
A new poll from Monday shows that a majority of Maine voters say they want Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) to drop out if another scandal surfaces. Wedgewood Polls found in its latest survey on the Maine Senate race that 75 percent of Maine voters would want Platner to drop
The United States was eliminated from the World Cup on Monday night in Seattle with a 4-1 loss to Belgium, ending an improbable run by a team that had been at the center of controversy over a questionable call by a referee in its final days of competition. American star striker
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Chair Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) on Monday called on Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner to withdraw as the Democratic nominee. "The allegations reported today are incredibly disturbing –– violence,
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Left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker on Monday said it was "curtains" for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) after Politico reported that a former girlfriend accused the oyster farmer of sexually assaulting her in 2021. Piker read the story aloud on his Twitch stream
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Democrats and progressives on Monday called for Maine Democratic candidate Graham Platner to end his Senate campaign amid a new accusation of sexual assault. "I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line," Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.),
It looks like Graham Platner won’t be putting oyster stew on the Senate Dining Room menu any time soon. In the wake of the most serious allegations yet against the scandal-soaked Democratic Senate nominee — this time that he raped an erstwhile girlfriend in 2021 — the
Despite winning the Democratic primary in Maine last month, Senate candidate Graham Platner could be off the ballot in November after a Politico story published on Monday detailed a woman accusing him of sexual assault. July 13 is the deadline for Platner to withdraw from the
A federal judge in Ohio ruled against the Trump administration Monday, citing bigoted comments President Trump and Vice President JD Vance made about immigrants. U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley ordered the White House to unfreeze immigrants’ benefit applications, citing
Former "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd on Sunday accused President Trump of ruining the Fourth of July celebration of the country's 250th birthday on the National Mall in Washington. Todd said on his podcast "The Chuck ToddCast" that the president took over the celebration
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Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner has responded to more allegations of sexual misconduct against women. Jenny Racicot, a 41-year-old Maine resident who dated Platner on and off for two years, says that he sexually assaulted her in 2021—drunkenly entering her home
The NAACP will be spending more on midterms than any other election in its history following the Supreme Court’s April ruling that effectively limited the Voting Rights Act's power against racial vote dilution. In response to the high court’s decision to strike down Louisiana’s
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which spearheaded job and funding cuts throughout the federal government, shut down operations on July 4. In a Saturday social media post, the department quoted former President Teddy Roosevelt, writing, "'Far and away the best
D.C. issued the "Code Red" air quality alert on Sunday morning, hours after the record-setting fireworks display on the National Mall had ended.
The president can bellyache all he wants about advancing the SAVE America Act, but it once again appears to be completely and utterly dead in the water. House Republican leadership has claimed that the controversial voter ID bill—which has so far held up confirmation hearings
Nearly a year after President Donald Trump’s mass government layoffs, the National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association are still scrambling to replace scientists and collect missing data. The NWS is hiring for hundreds of mostly entry-level
Maine Senate Democratic candidate Graham Platner on Monday said his campaign is “taking the time to reflect on the best path forward,” just minutes after Politico published a story in which a woman who previously dated the oyster farmer alleged he had sexually assaulted her.
Iranians flooded Tehran on Monday during the funeral procession for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike at the start of the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran. Monday saw the biggest day of crowds marching through the capital city's streets,
Last month, two ICE agents showed up to David Streever’s front porch in Rochester over one strongly worded email he sent to former Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons. Now he’s suing the Department of Homeland Security for First Amendment violations. Two
This year’s World Cup has been unusually thrilling on the field, even by the tournament’s high standards for drama, and has largely gone off without a hitch, despite prior concerns about stadium travel logistics for fans and whether the obscenely expensive matches would sell
The World Cup clash on Monday night between the U.S. and Belgium will fall against a backdrop of international anger after FIFA revoked the suspension of a star American striker following an inquiry by President Trump. FIFA suspended the red card for Folarin Balogun, which
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Monday signed a bill making the state the country's first to mandate that the largest artificial intelligence labs obtain third-party audits of their safety plans. Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, or S.B. 315, in
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing back on Vice President Vance's warning to Israeli officials over criticizing the Trump administration's peace deal with Iran, saying "we have many, many friends." Vance said last month that if "I was in the Cabinet of the
On Sunday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) bashed his counterparts in the Senate for not supporting the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act. “Are you that weak? That’s my question to any Republican senator — are you
The rotation of U.S. service members in Poland, which was paused by the Pentagon earlier this year, will return to the Central European country in the “coming weeks,” Poland’s Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Monday. “The rotational presence of American
The United States of America recently turned 250 years old. What a spectacle! The fireworks were amazing, and millions of proud people celebrated across the nation - even around the world. France lit up the Eiffel Tower; Japan had fireworks. French fighter jets flew above New
Western alliances are turning away from America. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told reporters at a press conference in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday that NATO’s traditional reliance on the U.S. is no longer a sustainable model for the military and economic coalition. “What you
Russia launched a massive attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv late Sunday, shortly before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will head to Turkey for the annual NATO summit. Russia launched 68 missiles and 351 attack drones at Kyiv, Zelensky wrote on social platform X
Moments like these become defining not just because extremists show up, but because history remembers how our leaders responded.
Positing that free markets are somehow antithetical to human dignity is explicitly progressive framing.
President Donald Trump has thought of yet another useless White House renovation to drain taxpayer dollars—and his rush to show off to world leaders is only making things more expensive. The Trump administration sped up construction of a new helipad on the White House’s South
FIFA has tossed out an appeal filed by the Belgian soccer federation after it reversed a red card against American striker Folarin Balogun ahead of the country's clash with the United States on Monday night. The federation found Belgium's appeal "inadmissible" on Monday, The
President Trump’s intervention to lift the red card ban on U.S. Men’s National Team soccer player Folarin Balogun is breaking the integrity of the World Cup tournament. Now the French national team has appealed to FIFA, the soccer governing body, to rescind Michael Olise’s
The Trump administration's dismantling of U.S. foreign assistance institutions has left the country less prepared to respond to international health threats, such as the current Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, and has increased conflict in African countries that rely heavily
Planned Parenthood has regained access to federal funding, enraging anti-abortion conservatives one year after Republicans were able to cut its clinics off from Medicaid. Beginning July 5, clinics were once again able to bill Medicaid for reimbursement for non-abortion care,
FIFA President Gianni Infantino broke his silence on the federation's decision to reverse a red card handed to American striker Folarin Balogun last week, a controversial move that came at the lobbying of President Trump. “I have seen the public comments regarding the decision