It took President Joe Biden a full 14 days to say the name Laken Riley, the killed university student whose alleged killer is an illegal immigrant. But it took the president fewer than 48 hours to apologize for calling him an “illegal.” “I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal’ — it’s ‘undocumented,'” the 81-year-old incumbent told MSNBC’s […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said former President Trump would not give "a penny" to support Ukraine in its war against Russia after the two met at Trump's Florida estate Mar-a-Lago last week. Orbán told Hungarian news channel M1 that Trump wants peace in the Russian war against Ukraine, and the Hungarian leader said he...
Former President Trump on Monday argued "there is a lot you can do" when it comes to cutting funding to entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. Trump appeared on CNBC's "Squawk Box" in his first interview since President Biden delivered the State of the Union address last week. Host Joe Kernen noted there are...
Pregnancy centers in states including Missouri and Pennsylvania that currently benefit from TANF funds would no longer be able to provide free ultrasounds, medical exams, housing, clothing and more to women facing unexpected pregnancies.
NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo and ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson clashed over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack in Carlson's first national television appearance since his exit from Fox last year. Cuomo confronted Carlson over his views of the insurrection and criticized his "cherry-picked" use of security footage from the Capitol that day that was exclusively released...
Senate Republican Policy Committee Chair Joni Ernst (Iowa) will run for Senate Republican Conference chair, the No. 3-ranking position in the Senate Republican leadership, setting up a race between her and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). Ernst, who declined to say last week whether she would run for a higher leadership position, told Politico in an...
The sex trafficking survivor who was evoked in Sen. Katie Britt’s (R-Ala.) rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union address said in a new interview that she thinks it is “not fair” Britt told her story without her consent. “I hardly ever cooperate with politicians because it seems to me that they only want...
A group that works to help elect Democrats to the Senate booked $239 million in television ads to defend seven seats that Republicans will seek to flip this fall. Senate Majority PAC announced the ad buy in a release on Monday, saying the organization will supplement the reservations along with digital ad investments focused on...
It’s time to stop pretending the Supreme Court is still the nonpartisan institution it once might have been; the current majority has been captured by the far right.