Establishment Republicans are looking to play a more assertive role in ensuring their preferred candidates win in competitive Senate primaries as they work to flip the upper chamber next year. There's broad consensus that candidate quality factored in to the party’s failure to take back the Senate in last year’s midterms, with a number of...
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that mainstream media outlets are criticizing his candidacy more than they have criticized former President Trump, who has frequently complained of unfair and dishonest news coverage. During an appearance on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” host Maria Bartiromo asked Kennedy about whether he has concerns of being...
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday the House panel that investigated the circumstances of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot "compelled" the Department of Justice (DOJ) to look into allegations of criminal activity conducted by former President Trump. "I do believe that the work we did, the evidence we put forward to the country and to...
Every summer the Alliance for the Great Lakes’ Adopt-a-Beach program mobilizes thousands of volunteers across eight states to collect trash from the Great Lakes shorelines. To date our volunteers have collected over half a million pounds of trash, of which 85 percent is plastic. The problem with plastic pollution, aside from its volume, is that it doesn’t...
That’s the subtitle of my latest Confirmation Tales post in which I discuss the surprising role that Bill Clinton’s nominations of Rosemary Barkett and...
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) dodged a question Sunday on whether he would run as a third-party candidate in 2024. Hogan side-stepped a question from MSNBC host Jen Psaki about whether he would be open to running as a third-party candidate if he was asked to on “Inside with Jen Psaki.” He said he...
Palm Springs Mayor Grace Elena Garner urged residents Sunday to stay indoors amid an uncharacteristically long heat wave. “For lifelong residents like me, this isn't unusual. But what is unusual is that duration,” Garner told Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week.” “And what we see is that we have workers who are outside every day...
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said the charges reportedly listed in the target letter that former President Trump received in the Jan. 6 probe represents the “most serious” charges Trump has faced yet. “It's hard to imagine a president being involved in more serious misconduct. So it's the most serious thing he's faced yet,” Schiff said...
A project to build a national museum of Latino history and culture is up in the air amid a dispute over the museum's contents that has cast its funding prospects into the larger fight over the fiscal 2024 budget. The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved an interior and environment funding bill that bans the...