Left-wing influencer Hasan Piker filed a defamation lawsuit against conservative commentator Scott Jennings for a video clip that insinuates the Twitch streamer supports lynchings.
I’ve sat through enough depositions to know that a number without context is a trap. So here’s the number everyone’s quoting. Immigration judges denied 94% of asylum cases decided in June and granted 5.5%, the lowest rate in the records kept by Syracuse University’s TRAC data project. I think the asylum courts needed a reset, […]
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story Federal court to hear arguments on abortion pill access A three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could eventually restrict the nationwide distribution of the abortion...
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday denied a request to lift a block on Missouri’s new congressional map, which was poised to give Republicans a pickup opportunity in November. The decision means the Show Me State must revert to its existing GOP-favored 6-2 House map for the November election. Canada's retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. went into...
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on an array of U.S. goods went into effect on Tuesday, marking the latest chapter of a weeks-long trade war between the two countries. The "dollar for dollar" levies — ranging from 15 percent to 50 percent — impact American products such as milk and cream, steel, aluminum, paper and agricultural equipment. The Canadian government imposed the...
The U.S. military destroyed five Iranian oil tankers linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Tuesday in response to attempted Iranian missile launches at U.S. Navy warships, the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced. The U.S. forces disabled IRGC crude oil carriers M/T Kaviz, M/T Charminar, M/T Horizon 1 and M/T Riesco in the Gulf...
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday refused to lift a block on Missouri’s new congressional map, which was poised to give Republicans a pickup opportunity in November. Missouri officials held their primaries using Republicans’ new 7-1 House map, but the decision means the Show Me State must revert to its existing GOP-favored 6-2 House map for...
Vice President Vance is in hot water with some conservatives after a press briefing last week where he defended his friendship with Tucker Carlson. “Tucker is a friend of mine,” Vance said. “Tucker is a friend, despite the fact that we disagree on a number of things. And I’m not going to play the game where I throw friends under the bus because...
Democracy requires that voters choose the people who represent them. But it also requires that the people charged with that responsibility must be able to discharge it.
Fight for control of the Senate hangs in the balance with just eight weeks to go until the midterm elections, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). The nonpartisan election analyst on Monday shifted its November forecast to “a pure toss-up” for the upper chamber of Congress for the first time since the beginning of June....
For two years, some of the loudest voices on AI have spoken on white-collar layoffs, vanishing entry-level jobs, and a generation of graduates shut out. Chief executives routinely point to AI when they announce cuts. Is AI the shiny new scapegoat on the block, or a legitimate culprit behind what would otherwise be faster job...
In today's issue: ▪ Midterm season enters home stretch ▪ Investigation launched into Amazon plane crash ▪ New Mexico naming controversy ▪ Dan Driscoll’s possible replacements President Trump predicted in a Labor Day message on Truth Social that Republicans would win “big” on Election Day. But Republicans are facing stiffening economic headwinds as election season kicks into high...
Every Republican is liable to give you a different answer if you ask them what constitutes their party’s “base.” But from a purely demographic standpoint, it’s indisputable: older, married, working-class white men. The picture of the 2024 GOP electorate from The Associated Press’s now defunct VoteCast (a loss sure to be long lamented) is plain...
