The showdown between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Starbucks chief Howard Schultz will come to a head next week. That's when the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee votes Wednesday on whether to subpoena his testimony and authorize an investigation into the company’s labor law violations. The vote comes on the heels of...
President Biden on Sunday called out Republicans for efforts to limit teaching parts of Black history as he marked the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. “History matters,” Biden said at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. “The truth matters, notwithstanding what the other team is trying to hide. They’re trying to hide the truth.” Biden highlighted the importance...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on Sunday predicted that no “serious” Democrats will enter the 2024 primary ring with President Biden, who is expected to run for re-election, just a day after Democrat Marianne Williamson officially launched a bid. Host Margaret Brennan asked Pritzker on CBS’s “Face the Nation” whether Biden should “make it official...
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said on Sunday that that there would be an "inexhaustible source of weapons" if China started to aid Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. "The problem with China entering this is because you've got the West giving weapons to Ukraine," Turner told Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press." "You've got...
Complaints have been filed with the Federal Election Commission over allegations that Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch shared unaired political advertisements and debate strategy from President Biden's 2020 campaign with Jared Kushner, former President Trump's son-in-law and then-senior adviser. A complaint was filed by progressive nonprofit Media Matters, arguing that Murdoch broke the law by sharing the ads. NBC...
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) said it was possible that FBI and Department of Energy officials would testify in front of a House panel in the future, after reports that concluded, with varying degrees of confidence, that the source of the pandemic was a leak from a lab. “There may come a time for that,” Wenstrup...
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said “it may be forever” before the U.S. government knows for sure where COVID-19 came from, despite some Republicans pointing a new intelligence assessment as proof that the virus leaked from a lab in China. “We have so few facts that inevitably different agencies are going to arrive at different conclusions,”...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped California Gov. Gavin Newsom on his home turf Sunday, saying Florida has "witnessed a great American exodus from states governed by leftist politicians."
AOC really wanted to attend the September 2021 Met ball – a charity event for its Costume Institute, yes, but also the world’s number-one social event...