The Democratic National Committee is placing in eight swing states 40 billboards that tie former President Donald Trump's appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court to an Alabama ruling that upended in vitro fertilization there.

“The United States has a population of north of 327 million people. Why do we need more kids?” That’s how Joy Reid begins a video rant that is going viral this week. Reid is specifically attacking Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and as you might expect, she accuses him of racism. She insinuates that he’s racist […]

Since its release earlier this month, Madame Web has been viciously panned. One writer described it as “precariously constructed.” “To say that [lead actress Dakota] Johnson in particular phoned this performance in would be an insult to Alexander Graham Bell,” wrote a critic at the Atlantic. They’re not wrong: The acting is wooden, the cinematography […]

HALEY HEADS FOR ANOTHER LOSS. The Michigan Democratic and Republican primaries are today. The Democratic contest is interesting not because any candidate has a chance of touching President Joe Biden but for what it might say about the reach of the Israel-Hamas war into Democratic Party politics. The Republican primary will be interesting because it will shed […]

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said she is “conflicted” over the push to vote uncommitted instead of voting for President Biden in Michigan’s primary on Tuesday. Stabenow, who announced her retirement from the Senate last year, responded to protest efforts being made to vote uncommitted in the Democratic primary on Tuesday instead of backing Biden, who carried the state in...

The Department of Energy (DOE) on Tuesday announced more than $350 million for rural renewable energy projects from the bipartisan infrastructure law funds. On a call with reporters, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the $366 million would be allocated across 17 projects in 20 states and 30 tribal nations. Twelve of the projects are on...

envoy must be a "Muslim, experienced diplomat, and from the region."  Though the West is fixed on the issue of Afghan women and girls, the world needs to engage with the Islamic Emirate on other issues, including water rights, migration, narcotics trafficking and counterterrorism.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) on Monday renewed his threat to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress if the department “continues to withhold” subpoenaed documents on the U.S.’s exit from Afghanistan in 2021.  McCaul, in a letter to Blinken, claimed the State Department’s After-Action Review (AAR) of the Biden...

Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) said Monday the “horrible” killing of a nursing student on the University of Georgia campus should not inform the entirety of U.S. immigration policy. “I think whenever we’re dealing with violent crime, there is a sense of outrage, of sadness and loss,” Porter, who’s running for Senate in California, said during...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) ahead of a White House meeting Tuesday called on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to “reject the MAGA hard right, which wants a shutdown.” Schumer is ramping up his rhetoric ahead of a Tuesday midday meeting at the White House with Johnson, President Biden, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.)...