Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, says it’s “worth investigating” whether lawmakers were drinking during Thursday’s explosive hearing, after rumors circulated that noncommittee members were intoxicated. “I didn’t see the drinking by the gentlelady from New Mexico, Melanie Stansbury raised it, she said there are members drinking...
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) said he and fellow Republicans went to former President Trump’s hush money trial in New York City due to a gag order the former president is under. “And they’ve got this gag order against him,” Good said on Fox Business's “Varney & Co.” Friday. “That’s why we went up there, so...
Kelly Stafford, who is married to Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, posted online criticizing Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker after his divisive commencement speech went viral. Stafford, who posted her comments to her podcast’s Instagram story, took issue with Butker’s address from last Saturday at Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal arts college in...
A Thursday night hearing’s descent into chaos earned rebuke from both sides of the aisle after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) attacked another member’s physical appearance, a barb Democrats said had racial undertones. House Oversight lawmakers railed against the episode as “disgusting,” “embarrassing,” and a “middle school fight.” Tempers may have been on edge at...
Jake Sullivan, White House national security adviser, will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel this weekend amid rising international tensions around the Israel-Hamas war, the administration confirmed on Friday. Sullivan will meet in Saudi Arabia with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday, to talk about the war in Gaza and efforts to achieve peace...
The man charged with assaulting former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband in 2022 was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison. David DePape, 44, broke into Pelosi’s California home and violently attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer. DePape, who moved to the U.S. from Canada more than two decades ago, was found guilty...
CNN obtained video of Sean “Diddy” Combs brutally assaulting his former romantic partner Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura back in 2016, the outlet reported Friday. According to CNN, the 2016 surveillance video from the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, comes from multiple camera angles. The video seemingly shows a man, which CNN says is Combs,...
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John Eastman, a onetime lawyer for former President Trump, pleaded not guilty Friday in Phoenix on charges related to an alleged conspiracy to overturn Arizona’s 2020 presidential election results. Eastman was among a group of Trump allies indicted in Arizona in late April for allegedly attempting to prevent the lawful transfer or power. They were...
Americans are split on whether women should be required to have an in-person visit with a doctor before receiving abortion pills ahead of the Supreme Court ruling that will determine access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortion. Around 50 percent of respondents in the new Reuters/Ipsos poll said they were...
The House approved a resolution Friday that condemns “calls to defund the police,” taking aim at the rallying cry embraced by some progressives amid the Black Lives Matter movement. The chamber approved the four-page measure in a 337-61 vote, with all opposition coming from Democrats, a number of whom are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus....
The Israeli military said Friday that its troops had found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attack. The military identified the bodies as 22-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk, 28-year-old Amit Buskila and 56-year-old Itzhak Gelerenter, The Associated Press reported. Hamas killed the three individuals as they attempted to flee...
President Biden on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation in public schools. “Seventy years ago, when the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, a prayer was answered in the long struggle for freedom,” said Biden, speaking...
Ray Dalio, the billionaire investor and founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, said he sees a growing likelihood that the United States will plunge into a civil war. In an interview with Financial Times, Dalio, 74, detailed his research in which he found a 35 percent to 40 percent chance that the U.S. will have...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hit back at Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) following his derisive comments on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Thursday night that erupted in chaos and was littered with insults. “In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show,” Fetterman said Friday morning on social media platform...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) condemned the tone of a raucous Thursday night House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing saying members need to show decorum. “It's not a good look for Congress,” Johnson told reporters as they asked about a meeting that fell into chaos after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) taunted Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) for using...
{beacon} 12:30 REPORT Happy Friday! Season 3 of Bridgerton is out and I’m SO excited. Here’s what’s happening today: House lawmakers erupted into a verbal brawl last night during a hearing. It was wild. Just watch the video. That’s all I’ll say. Masters Tournament champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested this morning in an incident near...
The USDOT’s attempt to control airline finances, effectively highlighting the gap between the different types of flyers and airline loyalty members, serves no one’s best interest.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called on Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from all cases related to the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021, after it was reported an upside-down American flag was flown outside his home in the days surrounding the attack. According to The New York Times, an upside-down version...
A federal program providing free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured and underinsured adults is shutting down this summer, before the fall rollout of updated vaccines to fight against the latest variants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said its Bridge Access Program will end in August because of a lack of funding. The program has provided...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) comments about her physical appearance demonstrate that she’s “absolutely” racist. "She is racist. I mean, I don't have any questions about that. Because, I mean, I don't know that she's ever attacked her own colleagues,” Crockett said, referring to Greene’s comments during a hearing that...
Tavia and Gracie Hunt, the wife and daughter of Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, backed Harrison Butker, the team’s kicker, after a commencement speech he delivered about women and family roles drew controversy. In an address last Saturday at Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal arts college in Kansas, Butker said most of the female...
CNN and Fox News personalities ripped into lawmakers on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee over Thursday night's mayhem, where they traded insults and threw the committee into disorder that lasted nearly an hour. The Thursday night hearing to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress spiraled into chaos as Reps. Marjorie Taylor...
Sen. John Fetterman says the wild and chaotic scene inside a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Thursday night, which featured lawmakers lobbing multiple appearance-related insults at one another, was worse than an episode of "The Jerry Springer Show." "In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as 'The Jerry Springer Show,'" the Pennsylvania Democrat...
Seventy years after the landmark Supreme Court decision to end segregation in schools, a majority of Americans believe more should be done to racially integrate schools. A new Washington Post-Ipsos survey found that 86 percent of U.S. adults support the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools. Though...