TRUMP STRUGGLES TO UNITE GOP ON ABORTION. Early Monday morning, former President Donald Trump issued an anxiously awaited statement on abortion. It was anxiously awaited because the Republican Party has been floundering in the attempt to find some sort of unifying policy on abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade. In this […]

President Joe Biden champions himself as a proponent of diversity. That’s probably a good thing for him because there is nothing more diverse in this country, and arguably the world, than the stories of Biden’s ethnic background(s). All this from a president, mind you, who said how much more honest he was than his predecessor. […]

If you want to know when to look to the sky Monday – with proper safety glasses, of course – NASA created a tool that allows you to search for the optimal viewing time by your ZIP code.

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) a “serious legislator” amid her threat to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from his post. In an interview Saturday night on Fox News’s “One Nation,” McCarthy drew a distinction between the motion to vacate the chair that Greene filed against...

The U.S., Britain and Australia are considering a possible expansion of their alliance, known as AUKUS, which has been hailed as a landmark coalition designed to counter Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific region. AUKUS defense leaders said in a Monday statement that the alliance can benefit from including other "like-minded partners," such as Japan, in...

Whether an ex-president ought to be criminally prosecuted by a subsequent administration is practically the definition of a “political question” that the judicial branch is powerless to answer.

Former Vice President Mike Pence blasted former President Trump on Monday for embracing the position that abortion policy should be determined by states and avoiding taking a stance on whether the federal government should enforce a national ban at a certain cutoff point. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Pence — who was Trump’s...

Leaders of the congressional minority caucuses are demanding the restoration of the House Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI).  “Congress works best when its workforce truly reflects the diversity of our nation,” the chairs of the Congressional Tri-Caucus – composed of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus...

The Justice Department urged House Republicans to “avoid conflict” in a brewing battle after they threatened the possibility of contempt proceedings in their efforts to gain information on special counsel Robert Hur’s probe of President Biden’s handling of classified records. The Monday letter from the Justice Department’s head of legislative affairs asserts the House’s Oversight...

More than half of 2023’s most challenged library books have LGBTQ themes or characters, the American Library Association (ALA) said Monday. Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer,” a 2019 graphic novel recounting Kobabe’s exploration of gender identity and sexuality, topped the organization’s list of the 10 most challenged titles for the third year in a row. The...