President Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., poured an additional $5 million into the Texas Senate race, according to a new Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing published Saturday. The funds were earmarked for Del Ray Media LLC, a Virginia-based political media company, for TV and digital advertising against the Democratic nominee in this race, state Rep....
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Saturday signed a legislation package aimed at safeguarding the state’s election process against potential interference in the upcoming midterm elections. The Democratic governor, who has repeatedly warned President Trump’s administration would attempt to meddle in these upcoming elections, signed 13 bills in Los Angeles. “Donald Trump won’t stop until...
FBI Director Kash Patel said Saturday the agency used AI to stop half a dozen school shootings and upped its use of the technology by 605 percent since he took the position. Appearing on Fox News’ “Saturday in America,” host Kayleigh McEnany asked Patel about a statement he made in March claiming the FBI had...
The Trump administration began construction on a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting through southwest Texas’s Big Bend region despite local leaders' pushback against the project. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told the Associated Press Friday that installation of 30-foot panels was already underway along this portion southern border. The construction started earlier this...
After President Trump announced this week he was banning Politico, CNN and MS NOW from accessing the White House, the three media outlets reported Saturday their journalists were denied access to the executive premises. White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) President Jacqui Heinrich called on the White House to “immediately” restore access to these journalists and...
A coalition of Black women has launched a three-point plan to help elect Vice President Harris. The "100 Days of Action by Black Women for Kamala," which began as an online Facebook group, will conduct voter registration drives, community outreach events and get-out-the-vote efforts in all 50 states. The campaign also calls for "100 Days of Prayer,"...
The Biden administration says it has replenished the 180 million barrels of oil it withdrew from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve in response to high prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Energy Department on Friday announced a 4.65 million barrel purchase, bringing the total purchased since the 2022 drawdown up to more than 40...
Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain opened up about his reaction to what he called a "nasty" pressure campaign from Democrats to push President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, revealing he was "surprised" by the president's decision to ultimately do so after a tense few weeks for the party. Klain, in...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday announced the seven Republicans and six Democrats who will sit on the task force to investigate the assassination attempt against former President Trump. The Republican chair of the panel will be Rep. Mike Kelly (Pa.), who represents Butler, Pa., where the shooting...
The GOP mayor of Mesa, Ariz. — Phoenix’s largest suburb — endorsed Vice President Harris on Monday, saying only the vice president can “put country over party” in the November election. Mesa Mayor John Giles wrote in an op-ed for The Arizona Republic that Republicans should reject former President Trump at the ballot box. “Our...
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) criticized Vice President Harris for refusing to meet with him when they were both in California’s congressional delegation, claiming that Harris had a reputation for a toxic office culture. “When she got elected to the U.S. Senate, I was the majority leader. I reached out to meet with her, not...
A law that bans abortion before most women know they are pregnant takes effect in Iowa Monday, once again reshaping abortion access in America more than two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned. The law bans abortions after fetal “cardiac activity” can be detected — electrical activity that’s usually spotted by an ultrasound after...
Senate negotiators are punting consideration of their full-year Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill as both sides struggle to find bipartisan agreement. The powerful Senate Appropriations Committee was set to consider the bill, along with four other full-year funding measures, on Thursday, as it works to pass all 12 annual government funding bills. “Over...
Vice President Kamala Harris has a history of disregarding constitutional norms and civil rights in order to advance her political ambitions, including concealing evidence, refusing to seek the death penalty, and enacting policies by fiat.
Imagine living your whole life devoid of any sort of redeeming narrative, and then someone suddenly informs you that, no, you do indeed have a story. And, in fact, you are the villain.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) pushed back on the idea that Vice President Harris’s running mate must be a white man and called concerns over an all-female presidential ticket “baloney,” in an interview Monday on “CBS Mornings.” “I don't agree with that,” said Whitmer, a co-chair of the Harris campaign, when asked about the idea...
Vice President Harris will be in Houston on Thursday for the funeral of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, the White House confirmed Monday, after the Texas Democrat died earlier this month Jackson Lee, a three-decade House veteran and bastion of Houston politics, died shortly after revealing she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Harris called Jackson Lee...
