A coalition of progressive groups launched a campaign Monday to counter the power of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), opening up a new front in the domestic political battle over Israel and Gaza. The “Reject AIPAC" coalition promises a seven-figure “electoral defense campaign” aimed at shoring up members of Congress who are targeted...
There is widespread pessimism toward the government among the American people.
Kate, Princess of Wales, issued an apology on Monday after the first photo showing her since her abdominal surgery in January was retracted by news agencies once they discovered it had been edited. “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” the princess wrote from the official Kensington Palace account on X, formerly...
Just over a third of Americans, 37 percent, say in a Gallup survey released Monday President Biden is respected by world leaders. Fifty-eight percent said he is not respected, and 5 percent said they have no opinion. Broken down by political affiliation, 74 percent of Democrats said Biden is respected, as did 3 percent of...
The American people are unrepresented and powerless. They want serious leaders who can unite the country.
Special counsel Robert Hur is set to testify on Capitol Hill this week, roughly one month after he published a controversial report that stopped short of bringing charges against President Biden for “willfully” retaining classified documents, but raised questions about his mental state and memory. The report sparked outrage on both sides of the aisle: Republicans...
President Biden on Monday will unveil his budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, calling for tax increases for large corporations and for billionaires to pay a minimum 25 percent tax rate. The president’s budget proposal for the 2025 fiscal year would reduce the federal deficit by about $3 trillion over a 10-year period, the...
Republican senators say the race to replace Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could be decided by fundraising prowess, citing the more than $1.6 billion he helped raised through two outside groups for Senate Republican candidates since 2015. GOP senators say the fundraising “factor” could give an advantage to Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) in...
President Biden on Monday will travel to New Hampshire, where he will call on Congress to take three specific actions to lower health care costs for Americans. Biden will seek to draw a contrast between his proposals to reduce health care costs for Americans and GOP proposals to reduce benefits and repeal the Affordable Care...
The Body Shop announced this month that it has closed all its stores in the United States as it filed for bankruptcy. The Body Shop Canada Limited, the Canadian subsidiary of the UK-based cosmetics company, said it was working on ways to restructure and that its 105 store locations were currently open for business, according...
The NBA announced on Sunday that it has fined Minnesota center Rudy Gobert $100,000 after he made a gesture during a Friday night game that implied a referee was improperly influenced by gambling and making calls accordingly. After Gobert was called for a technical foul in the last few seconds of regulation, during the Timberwolves’...
Jimmy Kimmel is hitting back at Donald Trump live from the Oscars stage after the former president panned his hosting skills, cracking, “Isn’t it past your jail time?” The ABC late-night TV host took to the stage at the 96th annual Academy Awards, quipping to the audience that he wanted to share a “review” about...
The Washington Monument closed on Sunday because of high winds, the National Mall National Park Service (NPS) announced on social media. The NPS later clarified that the monument itself was not at risk but that it was closing to make sure visitors were not standing in line for a prolonged period during that weather. “That’s...
President Biden marked the start of Ramadan on Sunday with a statement recognizing the “moment of immense pain” for many Muslim Americans and pledging to lead international efforts to deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza. “Tonight—as the new crescent moon marks the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan—Jill and I extend our best wishes...
The Associated Press and other news agencies issued mandatory kill notices on the first photo released in months of Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, citing concerns that the photo was manipulated. The photo, released by Kensington Palace on Sunday, featured the princess surrounded by her three children, while Kate sat in a chair. The...
Singer Billie Eilish, “Poor Things” star Ramy Youssef, director Ava DuVernay and Mark Ruffalo are making a sartorial statement about the Israel-Hamas war with their Oscars wardrobe, sporting pins calling for a cease-fire. The stars were all seen on Sunday’s red carpet at the 96th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles wearing the red pins, which...
Jimmy Kimmel is taking a knock at Sen. Katie Britt at the Academy Awards for the Alabama Republican’s much-mocked State of the Union rebuttal. The late-night TV host took the stage at the 96th annual Oscars on Sunday with a series of rapid-fire wisecracks mostly aimed at the Hollywood stars in attendance at the Los Angeles...
President Biden in a Saturday interview doubled down on his commitment to stand by Black Americans and pointed to his record of support for Black-owned small business and to strong job creation numbers. “You promised Black America that you'd have, you'd have our back. Do you feel you have our backs?” MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart asked...
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) went back and forth with Fox News’s Mark Levin this weekend after he called her “sleazy” amid allegations that she poorly ran the GOP side of the House Jan. 6 committee. An article in The Federalist accused Cheney of suppressing “exonerating evidence” against former President Trump, citing previously unseen committee...
Two people were killed and five were wounded in a shooting in Arkansas early Sunday morning, local police announced. The suspected shooter also died in the incident. A statement from the Jonesboro Police Department said the shooting took place at a private party and that the two individuals who were killed, one female and one...
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on Sunday praised President Biden’s State of the Union address and said anyone watching saw a president “in command.” In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, Buttigieg dismissed criticism in Sen. Katie Britt’s (R-Ala.) rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union address. “Now, I know that...
Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) said he thinks his Senate campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) can find victory because the Texas Republican Party is in disarray, and Democrats can pull off an upset in the Lone Star State. “I actually think that what we're seeing is an internal civil war in Texas among other Republican...