“A sham case, and everyone knows it.” So writes the iconoclastic Matt Taibbi, once counted as a left-wing writer, and he’s not the only one from outside MAGA precincts who has been appalled by the Manhattan district attorney’s case that produced a guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump. “Bragg should have settled the case […]
BEAVER, Pennsylvania — Seven months ago, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State, Democrats still held a lead over Republicans regarding voter registration in this southwestern Pennsylvania county that, for generations, was the heart of the working-class voter. The men and women who live here were undeniably the all-important cog in the New Deal Democratic coalition. They […]
President Joe Biden‘s inability to stop lying about his record may be compulsive, but the lies spun by his hagiographers in the media are a calculated defense for the president’s flailing reelection bid. With no topic is this folie a deux more pervasive than regarding the worst inflationary crisis, and no example of this pathological […]
President Biden said Tuesday that he does not think Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "playing politics" with his handling of the war in Gaza. “I don’t think so. He’s trying to work out a serious problem he has," Biden said when asked after remarks on the border whether Netanyahu was "playing politics with the...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday he thinks most Americans would not have to face the gun charges for which President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is currently on trial in Delaware. In remarks to HuffPost, Graham defended the president’s son against the gun charges but said he thinks the second indictment Hunter Biden faces, charging...
Much of the vast fleet of U.S. military bases, coal plants and industrial facilities sits atop a prime resource for clean energy: layers of hot rock deep within the earth. That’s according to GeoMap, a new collaboration that combines the subsurface expertise of dozens of scientists organized by Project Innerspace, a nonprofit focused on building out...
More than 6 in 10 Americans will have a cardiovascular disease by 2050, according to a new report from the American Heart Association (AHA). The report, published Tuesday in the journal Circulation, found that cardiovascular disease, including hypertension, “will affect more than 184 million adults by 2050,” or about 61 percent of Americans. It estimates...
The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths among wealthy nations despite a dip in the rate at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new report from The Commonwealth Fund compared the U.S.’s maternal mortality rate of about 22 deaths per 100,000 live births to those of other high-income...
Many Americans are still hesitant of switching to electric vehicles despite the administration’s push to move to climate-friendly cars, according to a new survey. About 46 percent of Americans said they are unlikely to purchase an electric vehicle, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)...