Passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act will not save the Republican Party from losing the House of Representatives in 2026, as President Donald Trump claims. But it is a reasonable and desirable constitutional reform that would help restore faith in elections. It deserves a vote on the Senate floor. According to the best […]
TRUMP, ANOTHER HAIR-ON-FIRE UPROAR, AND THE MIDTERMS. On Friday, the political and media world experienced a nervous breakdown over President Donald Trump’s posting of a video that contained a racist image portraying former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. The video contained a lot more — with a jungle theme, it […]
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Fox News commentator Brit Hume blasted President Trump over an executive order seeking to crack down on citizens who burn or desecrate the American flag. "George HW Bush ran against flag burning in 1988 and spent a whole week campaigning on the issue," Hume wrote on the social platform X. "But he called for a...
An overwhelming majority of voters says transparency in the Jeffrey Epstein case is important to their views on President Trump, according to a new poll. A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released on Tuesday found 65 percent of people saying transparency around the case of the disgraced financier is important to their opinion of Trump, while a...
Snoop Dogg said he is “scared” to take his grandchildren to the movies after watching Pixar’s “Lightyear,” a 2022 animated film with two openly gay characters. The “Toy Story” spinoff features the return of space ranger Buzz Lightyear, joined by a host of new faces, including Alisha Hawthorne, Buzz’s friend and commanding officer. During a...
Unemployment claims in the Los Angeles metropolitan area climbed by 12 percent to 17 percent due to the devastating effects of the Palisades and Eaton blazes, which ripped through the region this past January, a new report has found. The jobless claims soared not only within the fire zones but also in neighborhoods farther from...
President Trump is using the machinery of the state, such as the National Guard and surveillance networks, to suppress dissent and protect the elite from accountability, while tech giants and corporate barons reap the rewards of their investments in his campaign.
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President Trump said he plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, following a request from South Korean President Lee Jae Myung to the president to help bring about peace on the peninsula. “Thanks to your efforts when you were in office during your first term, the situation on the Korean peninsula was...
President Trump indicated on Monday that he could move soon to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War. "Pete Hegseth has been incredible with the, as I call it, the Department of War. You know, we call it the Department of Defense, but between us, I think we're going to change the...
President Trump on Monday said he would like to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again, during a meeting at the White House with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. And he said the Department of Defense could be renamed the Department of War within the next week. "We won the WWI, WWII, it...
During the 1980s, Donald Trump and Richard Nixon were friendly acquaintances and mutual admirers. In 1982, Trump wrote Nixon a fan letter saying, “I think you are one of the country’s great men, and it was an honor to spend an evening with you.” Later, Trump wrote, “One of my great ambitions is to have the Nixons...
President Trump on Monday appeared to back off on his threat to deploy the military or take other unilateral actions to crack down on crime in liberal cities, saying it would be better to be asked by state and local officials for federal assistance. "I was telling some of the people that in a certain...
One of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, wrote a memoir before she died that is slated to be published this fall, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf announced. The 400-page book, “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice,” is scheduled for release on Oct. 21. “Giuffre offers...
