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New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill calls on lieutenant governor to resign over alleged ethics violations

New Jersey's governor on Thursday called on the state's lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, to resign by Friday after a law firm hired by her office concluded he violated the state's ethics and discrimination rules.

Trump, the midterm elections, Congress, and the war

TRUMP, THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, CONGRESS, AND THE WAR. In 2002, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, President George W. Bush went through a long and elaborate process to secure the approval of Congress for going to war. On Oct. 10, 2002, the House passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force by a […]

UMass Dartmouth football murder suspect overstayed tourist visa, received deferred action: federal sources

Chukwunonso Eze entered the U.S. on a tourist visa in 2015 and received deferred action under both Biden and Trump before he allegedly killed a UMass Dartmouth football player.

Gina Hinojosa wants to make Texas a test case for Democrats’ future

Gina Hinojosa wants to make Texas a test case for Democrats’ future lead image

Taxes and spending ever upward is Kathy Hochul’s motto

If state and local governments spent like Florida, outlays would drop $170 billion, meaning...

Save Ukraine from American meddling

Thirty years ago, Ukraine was embraced by America’s neoconservatives, who believed that it was the perfect instrument for weakening Russia.

Warnock calls Trump ‘plague’ on nation’s conscience, says Black voters won’t support him

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) said Wednesday that Black voters will not vote for former President Trump this November. Speaking on MSNBC’s "Alex Wagner Tonight," Warnock, one of only four Black senators, said the former president is trying to take the country backward. “Donald Trump is a plague on the American conscience and the American nation,” Warnock said....

Groundhog Day in Iran: Hopes for change will again be dashed in this week’s election

Iran's upcoming presidential election is unlikely to bring about any meaningful change, as all the candidates are committed to the principles of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the supreme leader's regime, and the election is likely to yield more of the same domestic repression and international aggression.

Forget deepfake videos. Text and voice are this election’s true AI threat. 

Swing voters are scarce, margins are thin and automated text or voice voter suppression campaigns are easy to do and hard to detect. 

Republicans more likely than Democrats to say they’ll watch debate: Survey

Republicans are more likely to say that they’ll watch the presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump Thursday, according to a new survey. The Syracuse University/Ipsos poll, released this week, found 45 percent of Republican respondents said they were “very likely” to watch the televised debate between the two perspective party nominees. Among...

Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is dangerously wrong  

Louisiana’s new law to mandate display of the Ten Commandments in public schools manages to mangle both history and religion.

Defeat, deter and dissuade: Israel’s survival strategy against Iran and its proxies

Israel is using a strategy of defeat, deter, and dissuade to manage its three-front war against Iran and its proxies, with the goal of securing Israel from existential threats by isolating and eliminating the threats.

Comet not seen since 1956 set to fly by Earth

Stargazers will want to keep a close eye on the sky in the coming days. A comet with a 69-year orbit is set to pass by Earth.

DNC hits Trump over Georgia election interference case ahead of debate

The Democratic National Committee is set to launch a mobile billboard hitting former President Trump over his election interference case at the presidential debate venue in Atlanta on Thursday. The mobile billboard marks the first time the DNC directly attacked Trump over the Georgia case, according to the committee. One of the videos featured on...

Medicare & Drug Pricing, Time to Think Differently: Watch Live

The landmark 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has already helped people with Medicare save on health care costs for vaccines and insulin, but, as with anything in Washington, that’s not the full story. Increases in utilization management tactics, a guiding framework of health insurers and hospital systems to mitigate costs, are emerging as an unintended...

Morning Report — Debate night: Will Biden or Trump win?

There has been so much media buildup ahead of tonight’s debate, we hesitate to do more than mention that it begins at 9 p.m. EDT on CNN, will be carried by other networks — and ends around 10:30 p.m.  President Biden spent days preparing at Camp David, eager to draw more voters his way in...

Biden leans on Republican backers to beat Trump

Geoff Duncan, the former lieutenant governor of Georgia, was sitting in his car last month when he received a call from President Biden. Duncan — a lifelong Republican who has never voted for a Democrat— had just formally endorsed Biden. And the president was calling to thank him. Surefire GOP endorsements are important for Biden...

Takano, Beatty introduce resolution condemning anti-LGBTQ Uganda law

Reps. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) introduced a resolution Wednesday condemning an anti-LGBTQ law in Uganda, according to Takano’s office. “It is difficult to overstate the gross inhumanity of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act,” Takano said in a Thursday press release. “Instead of focusing on rooting out corruption or ending extrajudicial killings, the Ugandan Parliament,...

Biden heads into debate trailing Trump by 1.2 percent in polls

President Biden is heading into the first presidential debate on Thursday, trailing former President Trump by 1.2 percent, according to an aggregation of polls from Decision Desk HQ/ The Hill. The aggregation of 755 polls shows Trump polling at 45 percent and Biden polling at 43.8 percent as of Wednesday night. The two will go...

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