The Associated Press regrets to inform you that the Little Sisters of the Poor are canceled. Martin Luther King is also done. And Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount is obviously offensive.
FROM HARDCORES TO MOVEONS: TRUMP, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND REPUBLICAN OPINION. Columbia, South Carolina — Former President Donald Trump did something unusual here in South Carolina Saturday night. He held a small event, or at least a relatively small event. Trump is known for holding massive rallies, with 8,000, 10,000, 15,000, or even more attending. His appearance in the main lobby of the state Capitol in Columbia was tiny by comparison, with perhaps 500 people in the room, and maybe a little less than that.
Musician Marilyn Manson is facing more allegations of sexual misconduct, accused in a lawsuit filed on Monday of sexually assaulting an underage girl multiple times in the 1990s. The woman in the lawsuit, who is filing under the name Jane Doe, says in her complaint that Manson started to "target" her in 1995, when she...
Longtime Amtrak rider President Biden returned Monday to a spot he’s been in hundreds of times: the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel. This time, he arrived at the East Coast’s worst rail congestion point as a messenger of good news rather than a passenger. “I’ve been through this tunnel a thousand times. When folks talk about...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is scheduled to meet with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the Capitol on Tuesday, marking the first visit from a foreign leader during the California Republican's Speakership. Abdullah’s trip to Capitol Hill comes as tensions ratchet up in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine. An Israeli raid on a...
Ahead of President Biden's State of the Union address next week, a new poll finds that a majority of Americans do not think the state of the country is strong. More than 60 percent of people think the state of the union is not strong, according to a new Marist poll. The negative rating comes...
Former Twitter executives are set to testify next month before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee about the social media platform’s decisions surrounding a 2020 news story on President Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Republicans have argued that Twitter suppressed circulation of a 2020 New York Post article about Hunter Biden in the weeks before the...
China is warning House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) against visiting Taiwan after reports that the GOP leader is planning a trip later this year to the island, which is a flashpoint in the rising tensions between Beijing and Washington. “We urge certain individuals in the U.S. to earnestly abide by the one-China principle,” Foreign Ministry...