Progressive influencer Kat Abughazaleh announced on Monday that she’s launching a bid to unseat Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) in the northern Chicago suburbs. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling our country piece by piece, and so many Democrats seem content to just sit back and let ‘em,” Abughazaleh said in a video announced her candidacy...
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calling him a danger to the country and the United States’ military after The Atlantic reported on Monday that its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been included on a Signal channel that detailed sensitive information regarding U.S. strikes in Yemen against the Houthis. “Incompetence so severe that...
Former Obama Justice Department official Matthew Miller called for an FBI investigation after The Atlantic’s bombshell report that its editor was included in a group chat of Trump administration officials discussing details of a U.S. plan to bomb targets in Yemen. “You don’t even have to do the 'what about her emails' thing. In any...
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), a military veteran, on Monday called for a congressional hearing following a news report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted The Atlantic’s top editor key details of the U.S. plan to bomb Houthi targets, just two hours ahead of the attacks. “Only one word for this: FUBAR,” Ryan wrote in a...
South Korean automaker Hyundai announced Monday it will invest $20 billion in the United States, including on a new steel plant in Louisiana. President Trump touted the news at the White House, crediting it to his election victory last November and his aggressive use of tariffs to target foreign imports. "This investment is a clear...
Comedian Nikki Glaser says she went from being too "angry" to tell political jokes to being too fearful. "I'm at the point now that if I don't say something political, it's because I'm scared to, not because I'm like, I don't think I have a right to do that," Glaser said Sunday at the Mark Twain Prize...
The GOP's proposed Medicaid cuts and Trump's unilaterally slashing funding for ACA navigators are the next steps in dismantling the Affordable Care Act, which has successfully reduced the country's uninsured rate to 8.2 percent from 15 percent in 2013 before its implementation.
President Trump held a Cabinet meeting Monday with billionaire adviser Elon Musk in attendance, where agency leaders emphasized efforts being made to cut programs they deemed wasteful or unnecessary in their respective departments. Trump went around the room and recognized each Cabinet official, most of whom touted efforts to promote the president's agenda on the...
Glenn Jacobs, the Republican mayor of Knox County, Tenn., and a WWE hall of famer, has challenged Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) to a wrestling match. Jacobs joined NewsNation’s Lelan Vittert on Friday, where he was asked about Walz’s claim that he could “kick the a—” of supporters of President Trump. “Is Tim Walz a...
President Donald Trump's Cabinet outlined billions of dollars in contracts it has canceled, including a "$300,000 contract educating on food justice for queer and transgender farmers."