House Democrats are shying away from endorsing Kamala Harris for a 2028 presidential run as names like Newsom, Shapiro and Whitmer are also being discussed.
Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, pointed to past Republican defiance of court orders on redistricting as he reacted to the Virginia Supreme Court striking down the commonwealth’s new congressional map Friday. “I’m old enough to remember when Republicans in Ohio just ignored court rulings repeatedly and did it anyway,” Platner...
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison on Friday fired back at MS NOW host Jen Psaki after she accused him of seeking a "deputy president" role. Psaki made the remark in an interview on the "Nobody Knows Anything" podcast, where she said Harrison thought he would "have a seat at the policy-making table"...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Trump Accounts for children born from 2025-28 could open the door to Americans paying their payroll taxes into personal accounts invested in the stock market instead of to the federal government, which has borrowed from the Social Security trust fund for years. Cruz suggested at a panel discussion at the...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday it is seeking to denaturalize a dozen people from various parts of the country who are accused of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship. Federal prosecutors filed denaturalization actions in U.S. District Courts across the country this week against 12 people, alleging they lied during the naturalization process, including about...
White House border czar Tom Homan said Thursday he's "sure" Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have detained U.S. citizens, "but we don't deport them." Homan told reporters outside the White House that U.S. citizens have "nothing to fear." "We deport people that are going to be deportable," he continued. "We arrest people that will...
California will become the first state to provide free diapers to newborns starting this summer under a new program Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Friday. Under the “Golden State Start” initiative, every newborn in the state will receive 400 diapers when they are discharged from participating hospitals. “The big problem defined universally in our city,...
Shell-shocked Democrats are scrambling to pick up the pieces after the Virginia Supreme Court quashed a new map designed to help them seize control of the House in November’s midterms. The decision immediately eliminates four House seats that were expected to flip to the Democrats’ side in the Old Dominion. And it constitutes an enormous...
President Trump said Friday that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a three-day ceasefire over the weekend, which includes a prisoner swap. The ceasefire will last from May 9-11, Trump wrote on Truth Social. The pause in fighting is for Russia’s Victory Day celebrations. “The Celebration in Russia is for Victory Day but, likewise, in...
Podcaster Joe Rogan questioned GOP Rep. Tim Burchett (Tenn.) about the motives behind the Trump administration’s decision to release new government files about UFOs amid the Iran war. The Pentagon released a trove of UFO-related files on Friday, after President Trump directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to do so. Burchett and Republican Rep. Anna Paulina...
A federal judge on Friday set a July 15 trial date for former FBI Director James Comey on his new criminal charges of threatening President Trump. U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan, who will oversee the trial, also agreed that Comey doesn’t have to make the trek to her North Carolina courtroom on Monday to formally...
Louisiana officials in a court filing urged the Supreme Court to leave in place an order from a lower court that blocks women nationwide from obtaining a widely used abortion medication through the mail. The Trump administration, trying to straddle the line on abortion, was silent. Last week, Justice Samuel Alito temporarily paused an order from the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals...
The Trump administration must make the release of American hostages in Iran a publicly stated condition of any negotiated agreement, and ensure that Iran never again uses the detention of U.S. nationals as a bargaining chip.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday called the Pentagon's release of documents related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) and UFOs "shiny object propaganda" as the Trump administration wages "foreign wars." The Pentagon released 162 files earlier Friday morning amid President Trump's push for greater transparency on the issue. The Defense Department shared a...
