Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world...
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. 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 […]
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.
Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is set to join President Biden’s reelection campaign as a senior adviser, the campaign confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. Bottoms worked as senior adviser for public engagement at the White House from 2022 to 2023 and has served as vice chair of civic engagement and voter protection at the...
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded Sen. John Fetterman during the Pennsylvania Democrat's visit to the country Wednesday. “We’ve been through dark times in these months of anguish, war. During that time, I can say that Israel has had no better friend than Sen. John Fetterman,” Netanyahu said during a meeting with the senator. Fetterman...
The Biden administration formally accused Cuba of profiting from forced labor on Monday, two months after President Biden signed a spending bill that requires the State Department to impose sanctions on third-country officials who hire Cuban work brigades. That determination sets up a clash between Cuba hawks in Congress who want it to immediately translate...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) took a jab at former President Trump over his past remarks about Chinese President Xi Jinping, showing a "Trump ❤️ Xi" poster during a hearing Wednesday. “The enemies of constitutional democracy and freedom seek to destabilize the American government. The tyrants of the world are targeting Joe Biden and promoting Donald...
Country music singer-songwriter Randy Travis and other music industry figures are slated to testify Wednesday on the role of radio stations in paying royalties to recording artists before a House Judiciary subcommittee. The “Forever and Ever, Amen” singer and SoundExchange CEO Michael Huppe will deliver remarks before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the House Judiciary Committee plans to file a lawsuit to force Attorney General Merrick Garland to turn over audio tapes of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. The suit would be the latest effort to secure the tapes after the Justice Department informed Congress it would not be...
Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker predicted reporter Evan Gershkovich’s trial will end in a “bogus” conviction, as court proceedings begin this week after 15 months of pretrial detention in Moscow. “To even call it a trial,” Tucker wrote Tuesday in a letter from the editor, “is unfair to Evan and a continuation of this...
A group of House progressives is forming a caucus that aims to reframe the country’s immigration debate. The group consists of Reps. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) and will be named the Congressional Caucus on Global Migration, NBC News first reported. The caucus is hoping to shift the conversation from...
Vladimir Putin has shuffled some senior officials in his government, including the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, to bolster his rule in the years ahead, with the most noteworthy changes being in the defense establishment.
Justice Samuel Alito railed against the White House in a dissenting Supreme Court opinion on Wednesday, in which he accused the Biden administration of leading a “campaign to coerce Facebook” when it attempted to moderate misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic on social media. Joined by fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, Alito dissented...
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and her primary challenger, Wesley Bell, are locked in a dead heat in what is expected to be a competitive primary in August, according to a poll released this week. The survey, conducted by the polling firm The Mellman Group for the organization Democratic Majority for Israel showed Bell, the St....
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has returned to Australia after pleading guilty to obtaining and sharing classified documents about the U.S. military. He pleaded guilty for conspiring with Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. intelligence analyst, to obtain and disclose the classified documents. He entered his plea in a U.S. district court in Saipan, which is the...
CNN has been given the opportunity to host the first joint appearance between Joe Biden and Donald Trump of the 2024 presidential election, and it is up to the network to measure up to this unexpected and perhaps undeserved windfall.
