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...
The beautiful game of football, or as I’ll begrudgingly call it for this review, despite being a Canadian, “soccer,” is a popular, successful, and financially viable sport in most parts of the world. Until recently, it had been a very different story here in North America, at least north of the Rio Grande. The North […]
Twenty-five years ago, Amy Sherman-Palladino burst onto the scene with Gilmore Girls, which earned critical acclaim for its quirky characters and rapid-fire dialogue. After Gilmore Girls, it took Sherman-Palladino a while to land another hit. She and Daniel Palladino, her husband and creative partner, created The Return of Jezebel James, which was canceled after just […]
Like most Marvel offerings, Thunderbolts* requires so much background knowledge that fine print seems appropriate, which may explain the asterisk at the end of the official name of the film. That typographical addendum, much discussed by Marvel fanboys during the promotional lead-up, turns out not to mean anything at all, unless one counts an in-joke […]
It may not surprise you to learn that I was a pretty good student. Not perfect, of course — I put everything off to the last minute and did a fair amount of late-night cramming when I was in high school and college — but when the grades went out, I was almost always near […]
Multiple lawmakers said Thursday their airplane was bumped by another plane while waiting on the runway at Reagan Washington National Airport. Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) posted online that the wing of his airplane was struck by a second plane while they waited on the runway and that "everyone is ok." “Serving in Congress has come...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said early Thursday that "chaos" and "confusion" were still high one day after President Trump implemented a 90-day pause on his administration's "reciprocal" tariffs. “I look at what happened yesterday, and yes, there was euphoria that he made some change. But in the cold reality of today, chaos is still up,...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that House Democrats will soon launch investigations into potential wrongdoing in the wake of President Trump’s surprise decision a day earlier to pause his reciprocal tariffs — a move that immediately caused stocks to soar. Jeffries said the Democrats will also be examining whether any House GOP...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is facing potential cuts and elimination due to Trump administration officials' efforts to reduce the federal government's role in responding to disasters.
China is hitting Hollywood amid President Trump's escalating trade war, saying it plans on cutting back on the number of American movie titles it allows into the country. "We will follow market rules, respect the audience's choices, and moderately reduce the number of American films imported," the China Film Administration, which regulates the film and...
House Republicans on Thursday adopted the Senate’s framework that will be used to enact key parts of President Trump’s legislative agenda, getting the blueprint over the finish line after a last-minute scramble to win over conservatives who had spent days railing against the measure. The largely party line 216-214 vote marks a big win for Speaker...
Sens. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) are demanding that the Office of Government Ethics investigate what they say are potential conflicts of interest of White House and executive branch officials who may have made financial transactions with insider knowledge of President Trump’s 90-day pause on steep tariffs. The Democratic senators want the White...
Republicans sent letters to eight Ivy League institutions over concerns of collusion to raise tuition prices. The letter was sent by House and Senate Republicans to Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. The Republicans are concerned about alleged collusion and potential...
Former White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin said President Trump was “forced” to introduce a 90-day pause on tariffs due to crippling market shares. “Donald Trump said as much on the South Lawn, that he was looking at the bond markets collapsing and that was what forced his hand into this reversal,” Farah Griffin, who...
Kathleen Sgamma, President Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), has withdrawn her name from consideration for the role. Sgamma's decision was announced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, during what was supposed to be her confirmation hearing Thursday. “I was informed by the...
Egg prices rose to a record high in March of $6.23 per dozen despite optimism from the White House last month. The price for a dozen grade A large eggs jumped from February’s $5.90 to $6.23, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It was $4.95 per dozen in January. Overall, the index for...
