The Iranian government began funeral proceedings Tuesday for its late president, foreign minister and other officials killed in a helicopter crash, as the country attempts to regain footing after the deaths left the Islamic Republic with an uncertain future. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was killed when his helicopter crashed under heavy fog and severe weather...
Comedian Jon Stewart ripped several leading Fox News hosts on Monday over what he said is insincere rhetoric on issues of free speech. “The idea that there is an all-pervasive, all-powerful threat to free speech called ‘cancel culture’ has become a central tenet of modern conservatism,” Stewart said Monday evening on Comedy Central's "The Daily...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) urged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to move forward with bipartisan legislation to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its prosecutor announced Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli leaders. Graham praised Schumer's condemnation of the ICC's move in a statement on social media platform X Monday but...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is slated to testify Tuesday on his department’s activities, including U.S. diplomacy, global challenges and the 2025 budget request before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. EST. Watch the video above.
Bill Maher is slamming Republicans in Congress, saying the GOP lawmakers are "just there to do performative nonsense." "They're there to burnish their credentials to get a show on Fox News," Maher told Anderson Cooper on Monday's "AC360" on CNN. "People like [Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Greene, real mental midgets who — they are not interested...
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis went after House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) Monday, as the lawmaker continues to investigate her over misconduct allegations as she prosecutes former President Trump's Georgia election interference case. “Jim Jordan has, time after time after time, attacked my office with no legitimate purpose,” Willis said in an...
Broad majorities of voters aren’t happy with Trump’s apparent offer of a quid-pro-quo to oil companies, a new poll from an advocacy group has found. Almost six in 10 likely voters surveyed -- 58 percent -- said they were “concerned” about a second Trump term after hearing about the former president’s reported offer to undo broad swaths...
If Trump is able to turn out the vote in those swing states, he will not only take the White House, but also likely add a significant number of Republicans to the Senate.
President Biden and former President Trump are virtually tied in a hypothetical three-way general election race in New Hampshire that includes independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a new poll. In the latest NH Journal/Praecones Analytica poll, released Monday, Trump received 36.6 percent support, compared to Biden's 36.5 percent. Kennedy followed the presumptive...
If Biden were serious about border security, he would be eliminating the pull factors he has established that encourage illegal immigration instead of creating new ones.
The inverted flag on Justice Alito’s flagpole violates nearly all of the court’s ethical rules.
Actress Scarlett Johansson said she was “shocked” and “angered” Monday after ChatGPT rolled out its voiced artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that she claims sounds “eerily similar” to her voice. Johansson, in a statement, noted that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously reached out to her about voicing an AI for the company, but she declined. The...
A campaign video posted to former President Trump’s Truth Social page Monday included a note about establishing a “unified Reich” and other references to the German Empire as hypothetical headlines if he were to win the 2024 election. The video was widely criticized online, including by the Biden campaign, which said it is “echoing Nazi...
These are important issues that should be settled by the Supreme Court without further delay.
Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office rested their case Monday against former President Trump, bringing the first criminal trial of a U.S. president in the country’s history nearer to a close. The defense now has the opening to present witnesses to try to persuade at least one potential skeptic on the jury that Trump...
Foreign Affairs The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) hired Cornerstone Government Affairs to educate members on IOM and lobby for “consistent core funding in the FY 2025 appropriations cycle,” according to a new disclosure. Congress barred funding to the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as part of a foreign...
Abortion is front and center in a high-stakes Georgia Supreme Court race pitting a Republican-appointed justice against a former Democratic lawmaker seeking to make a political comeback. Former Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.) has made abortion a centerpiece of his campaign against Justice Andrew Pinson, an appointee of Gov. Brian Kemp (R) who once clerked for...
If the Supreme Court rules that bump stocks aren’t machine guns later this summer, it could quickly open an unfettered marketplace of newer, more powerful rapid-fire devices. The Trump administration, in a rare break from gun rights groups, quickly banned bump stocks after the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert that was the...
Senate Republicans are nervously anticipating the verdict in former President Trump's Manhattan hush-money trial and warn that it could have a significant impact on the election. GOP lawmakers say a failure to secure a conviction would be a major embarrassment for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg that would strengthen Trump. But they admit they don’t...
Senate Democrats are waging a public battle with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and are questioning his impartiality after it was revealed that an upside-down American flag flew outside his home in the days surrounding Jan. 6, 2021, and President Biden’s inauguration. Alito, one of the Supreme Court’s leading conservatives, is facing mounting criticism over...
Top U.S. labor unions are saying they’ve had enough of the Trump tax cuts and want them repealed. Unions including the United Auto Workers (UAW), the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA), and the National Education Association joined dozens of progressive groups on Tuesday in sending a letter to...
The White House on Tuesday announced that more than 1 million claims have been granted through the PACT Act, a landmark law passed in 2022 that gave veterans expanded access to apply for compensation and relief related to toxic exposures during service. More than 880,000 veterans are receiving disability benefits through the PACT Act across...
Former President Trump's reelection campaign plans to sue the filmmakers behind the new biopic film, "The Apprentice," which follows the former president's early years in the real estate business, for including what it calls "blatantly false assertions." "We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers," Trump campaign...
Antarctica's "doomsday glacier," referred to as such for its potential to dramatically raise global sea levels, is melting faster than we thought thanks to warmer sea water passing below it, according to a new study.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) is calling on federal government leaders to declassify all documents related to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), arguing federal agencies must be transparent if they are going to be funding millions of dollars. Burchett, a member of the House Oversight Committee, introduced the UAP Transparency Act last week. The act would require the U.S....