The new PBS Masterpiece series Marble Hall Murders is a sumptuously filmed “cozy” with an unthreatening structural complexity. The Viking Cruises crowd will eat it up with a Christofle spoon. Like its predecessors, Magpie Murders (2022) and Moonflower Murders (2024), the new show is based on a book by Anthony Horowitz, who returns here as […]
Dogs bark, ducks quack, and populists offer free stuff. Enrique Pena Nieto dispensed around 10 million TV sets to low-income Mexican households. Hugo Chavez gave Venezuelans steeply discounted refrigerators, air conditioning units, and, again, TV sets. In Argentina, Evita Peron would personally hand out children’s toys, sewing machines, clothes, and kitchenware. None of these (for once […]
During Donald Trump’s first run for the presidency, China, the economic behemoth that was gutting America’s manufacturing base and flexing its muscles in East Asia, was his favorite punching bag. Yet as Trump was seeking to reclaim the presidency after four years in the political wilderness, his new foreign target was much closer to home: […]
The federal government is formally implementing President Trump’s directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Denali. The Interior Department issued a press release saying that the “the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America.” It also said it was reversing an Obama-era decision to rename Alaska’s Mount McKinley...
Marilyn Manson won't be facing charges of sexual assault or domestic violence following a four-year investigation, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office announced Friday. "We have determined that allegations of domestic violence fall outside of the statute of limitations, and we cannot prove charges of sexual assault beyond a reasonable doubt," Los Angeles County...
The ex-wife of Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keepers group, said President Trump’s decision to commute his 18-year prison sentence for helping lead the 2021 Capitol insurrection was “insane.” “I mean, there were terrorism enhancements with his sentence. He was not pardoned. It was a little too big of a sentence, I think,...
Podcaster and media personality Joe Rogan does not identify as a Republican or a Democrat, he said this week. "I don’t consider myself a Republican. I don’t consider myself a Democrat, either," Rogan said on his popular podcast. "I consider myself an American," he continued. "I’m a human being and there’s a lot of things...
The Senate is set to hold a final confirmation vote on Pete Hegseth's nomination for Defense secretary on Friday, a day after advancing his nomination by a slim margin with two Republicans opposing him. Hegseth is expected to be confirmed. GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine) were the only Republicans to vote...
The families of Riley Doggett and Samuel Sterling, both of whom died after being hit by law enforcement vehicles, have filed a series of lawsuits against the officers involved in the incidents. The families, represented by civil rights attorney Ben Crump and attorney Ven Johnson, have named Kent County Sheriff's Deputy Josiah McMains, who struck...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Friday that President Trump invited him and California’s other Democratic senator, Alex Padilla, on a visit to California amid the wildfires ravaging in Los Angeles — an offer Schiff said he turned down only because the Senate is voting on high-profile Trump nominees. “A number of us invited him to...
President Trump is set to deliver remarks Friday in hurricane-hit western North Carolina, after ripping the Biden administration’s handling of the disaster throughout the final stretch of his campaign. It will be Trump's first trip outside Washington since his inauguration Monday. Trump previously visited western North Carolina in October, shortly after Hurricane Helene shattered much...
A former Secret Service agent said President Trump’s decision to terminate protection for former national security adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will put them at “significant risk.” “So what has been accomplished here is that the president has put ambassador Bolton and Pompeo at significant risk,” John Wackrow said during...
Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, is expected to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Patel held numerous national security roles during the first Trump administration but would be a new face at the FBI. Patel regularly attacks a “deep state” he blames for having “weaponized the government for their own...
The Senate Democrats’ campaign arm announced on Friday that Devan Barber will be serving as the executive director ahead of the 2026 election. Barber has previously served as a senior advisor to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) for the last two election cycles. She’s also served as a political director and research director for...
President Trump suggested Friday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky bore some responsibility for the war that began almost three years ago with Russia's invasion. “Zelensky — I will say this, he wants to settle now. He's had enough. He shouldn't have allowed this to happen, either,” Trump said during an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity”...
