Using accusations of bigotry in order to shield political allies is nothing new. Want to establish your moral superiority in a debate? Just call the other person racist. Need to break yourself out of an intellectual corner? Yelling "bigot" may just do the trick.
The FBI appears to have done lasting damage to its reputation through its failure to follow its own standards before opening an investigation into false allegations that former President Donald Trump colluded with Russia.
Republican Doug Mastriano, the far-right-wing Adams County state senator who lost the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race by a whopping 15 percentage points to Democrat Josh Shapiro last year, taking down-ballot competitive seats for the GOP with him, told 20 attendees at a Lebanon County event he will make a big announcement next week about his political future.
Unsurprisingly, China was the key focus of this past weekend's G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. Alongside the United States, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is concerned by China's increasingly aggressive posture. The U.S. and Japan recognize that a key Chinese strategic objective is to undermine the unity of democratic allies by leveraging vast investments alongside the dangling dagger of economic coercion. In turn, the G7's communique expressed concerns over Beijing's economic coercion and its policies on Taiwan, human rights, and the South China Sea.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who was narrowly elected Speaker in January after 15 ballots, is coming under heavy pressure from conservatives not to agree to any debt-ceiling deal that falls well short House-passed legislation that cut $4.8 trillion from the deficit. So far, President Biden’s proposal to cap discretionary spending has fallen flat with McCarthy,...
Two key officials have left progressive presidential candidate Marianne Williamson's campaign, according to a new report. Jason Call, who served as Williamson’s deputy campaign manager, and Peter Daou, the prior campaign manager, have both left her operation, Politico first reported on Monday. Shortly after the news broke, Williamson’s press secretary Duran Brown released a statement about Daou, which...
The U.S. stock market dipped Monday morning after a fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral. The image was apparently created with artificial intelligence and tweeted out by a verified account resembling Bloomberg News called Bloomberg Feed. The caption read, "Large explosion near The Pentagon Complex in Washington, D.C. - Initial report." The...