Elon Musk’s lewd image generator on his X platform has gotten him into trouble in France. Prosecutors in Paris have asked Musk, along with former X CEO Linda Yaccarino, to appear for questioning over the spread of deepfake pornography and antisemitic content on the social media
Texas state Sen.-elect Taylor Rehmet (D) said President Trump was a nonfactor in his Tuesday election victory, when the candidate flipped the district from red to blue. “Well, I don‘t believe he was able to vote in this race. He doesn‘t live here in Senate District 9,” Rehmet
Trump encouraged the protests not only to continue but to escalate; his failure to deliver on his promise of support contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of Iranian dissidents.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is voicing support for pop superstar Bad Bunny ahead of his performance during halftime of Super Bowl LX on Sunday, as some conservatives express annoyance with the artist over his anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) comments over the
President Trump announced late Monday he is seeking $1 billion to settle investigations into Harvard University after The New York Times reported his administration was dropping its cash ask in negotiations with the school. "Strongly Antisemitic Harvard University has been
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro’s anti–Second Amendment declaration has left the Trump administration’s own base outraged. “You bring a gun into the District [of Columbia], you mark my words: You’re going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in
Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback said Monday he joined dating app Tinder to meet young female voters in the state. Fishback, 31, wrote on social platform X that he joined Tinder “to meet young female voters where they are, and share my plan to make it
House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (Calif.) and other top Democrats will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as the lower chamber of Congress is set to vote on a funding package to end the partial government shutdown. Democrats have a big decision to make after the
We have not just left a treaty; we have voluntarily blinded our own national security apparatus.
Donald Trump is now demanding $1 billion from Harvard after The New York Times reported he’d backed down from a request for the university to pay his administration off. For a moment, it appeared that Trump’s extortion scheme had failed at Harvard. Six other elite schools
The Trump administration is running out of excuses to explain away the president’s relationship with deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News Monday evening that pretty much everyone who partied with the “pedophile
Rear Adm. David C. Barata will testify before a House Homeland Security panel Tuesday morning on the U.S. Coast Guard's (USCG) moves to combat narcoterrorism, including the continued strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. The hearing comes a month
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon said Monday that his attorney offered to turn him in to federal authorities before he was arrested and indicted on federal civil rights charges stemming from his coverage of a protest inside a Minnesota church earlier this month. Lemon told ABC’s
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Monday that there is a chance anyone who attended parties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein could be prosecuted but noted that "it isn't a crime to party with Mr. Epstein." "Well, look, I’ll never say no, and we will always
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Republican leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as lawmakers are set to vote on legislation to end the partial government shutdown. The House Rules Committee on Monday night advanced the bill, teeing up what will be a tight
A trio of Senate Democrats are warning the consumer credit reporting agency Equifax against price gouging for its services as a significant number of Medicaid beneficiaries are expected to go into the job market to find employment in order to keep receiving benefits under the
The practical takeaway for executives is direct. Treat flexibility like any other operating system.
After nearly two months of post-Thanksgiving semi-hibernation, Maine’s Senate race is waking up . Although Democratic primary voters won’t head to the polls until June to decide who will take on longtime GOP incumbent Susan Collins, Graham Platner, the progressive populist
George Zinn, accepted a plea deal as he faced charges of obstruction of justice and sexual exploitation of a minor.
From Feb. 12-28, park resource crews will cut down tamarisk trees in the area and then treat the stumps with the herbicide triclopyr. The National Parks Service said in a Jan. 27 news release that it will remove invasive trees in Big Bend National Park, along the Rio Grande and
“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie is calling for prayers as the search continues for her missing mother. Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing on Sunday morning after she did not show up for church near Tucson, Ariz. In an Instagram post on Monday evening, the NBC host asked
Regaining connection to other human beings is the basis for recovery.
As in the aftermath of Kent State, the right wing’s opinion is not based on the facts but on political partisanship.
A woman accused in an alleged scheme to assassinate President Donald Trump made a court appearance in Jackson County, West Virginia Monday.
House Republicans could end the partial government shutdown on Tuesday, as the lower chamber gears up for votes on a five-bill minibus and a two-week continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A razor-thin margin and Democrats' refusal to
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard participated in the FBI’s recent search of a Georgia election center at the request of President Trump, she told members of Congress in a Monday letter. Last week, Gabbard was captured on camera by a Reuters photographer near the
A portion of the MAGA base that has long supported mass deportations is worried that the Trump administration will pump the brakes on its immigration enforcement strategy in the wake of mass public outrage over the killing of two Americans by federal immigration agents in
Trump is using the Department of Justice to target his political enemies and intimidate journalists, just as the Department of Defense is being used to wage war and seize other countries' resources.
President Trump has closed the border, making comprehensive immigration reform legislation possible, but it needs to be bipartisan and include a path to citizenship for Dreamers, a functioning immigrant-worker program, and restrictions on welfare benefits and easy citizenship.
Good grading starts long before a class ends.
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T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the February 3 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is the Daily Blas t from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. It’s now becoming clear
In 2024, The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank responsible for Project 2025 and so many guiding principles for President Donald Trump’s second term, published a white paper bemoaning the low birth rate among married women in the United States. It blamed a
President Trump may finally be crashing up against some limits to his power. The past few weeks alone have seen Trump meet resistance of a strength and breadth that was mostly lacking during 2025. The backlash is made more potent because it comes at a time when the president’s
Kelly Hancock is a very specific kind of Texas Republican. He’d fit in at any moment in the past 50 years of state GOP politics: A businessman with a penchant for small-government, low-regulation conservatism and hair like a richer version of Rick Perry. He’d come off as a real
Senate conservatives led by Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) are working to sink the Senate-passed government funding package in the House, warning that it threatens to leave the Department of Homeland Security unfunded while doing little to rein in the growth in
Votes in the House on Tuesday to end a partial government shutdown pose tricky political challenges for both Republicans and Democrats. On the Republican side, a procedural vote to tee up the funding package will test President Trump’s ability to unify the GOP’s razor-thin
A major cryptocurrency bill hit several road bumps in the Senate in recent weeks, dimming the legislation’s prospects in a midterm election year when policymaking efforts are expected to face a shorter runway. Efforts to advance the market structure bill in both the Senate
Under a certain strain of authoritarianism, a regime-approved vanity movie wouldn’t even need to premiere in cinemas. Cars with roof-mounted megaphones would circle the towns, announcing mandatory showtimes in the public square. Subjects would dutifully file there to watch it,
President Trump stockpiled millions into his super PAC, while a handful of GOP groups outraised their Democratic counterparts in the last stretch of 2025 as Republicans brace for a midterm cycle shaping up to be much like the anti-Trump 2018 midterms. Trump’s super PAC, MAGA
Donald Trump is making it explicit. In an angry diatribe to a right-wing podcaster , Trump told his usual lies about vote-cheating by undocumented immigrants, but this time he explicitly called on Republicans to “take over the voting.” He also darkly promised something new out
A bipartisan agreement to temporarily extend Homeland Security funding is rekindling tensions between the two chambers.
The House Rules Committee on Monday night advanced legislation to end a partial government shutdown, teeing up what will be a tight vote on the House floor for House Republican leadership. The panel advanced the funding package 8-4 along party lines. The legislation, passed by
Maryland Democrats advanced a new set of congressional lines that would eliminate the state’s one remaining GOP-held House seat on Monday. The Maryland House of Delegates voted 99-37 to advance a new House map that would give Democrats an 8-0 edge in their congressional
Rep. Christian Menefee (D-Texas), a former Harris County, Texas, attorney, was sworn in as a member of the House on Monday after winning the special election runoff for the late Rep. Sylvester Turner’s (D-Texas) seat last week. “It's been more than 330 days since the people of
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Newsom’s anti-Trump public health platform California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has positioned himself and his state as the frontline in opposing the new public health guidelines coming from the
Congress is staring at a steep climb to finalizing a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as progressives and conservatives each try to throw their weight after the shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis. The House aims to send the five-bill minibus and