Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Tuesday that he has not decided on his political future, but would launch a two-month winter tour to determine whether there is a national "movement" for a third-party ticket. “I start in January, I'll be two months on the road. And all we're trying to do is just mobilize...
Instead of the positive feelings of being a college student with an appetite for learning, too often there is a reverberating divisive hostility rocking many of our campuses.
A right-wing lawmaker in Poland used a fire extinguisher to put out a display of Hanukkah candles in Poland’s parliament on Tuesday, sparking outrage from the Jewish community and fellow members. Grzegorz Braun, the antisemitic leader of the far-right monarchist Confederation party, was filmed walking up to a large Hanukkah display and spraying out candles...
Hunter Biden on Wednesday called out House Republicans for having no shame amid their relentless probes and investigation into the president’s son. The younger Biden made a public statement outside the Capitol instead of showing for his scheduled deposition following a subpoena from House Republicans. His remarks bucked investigators’ requests for a closed-door deposition; he has said...
Late Night host Stephen Colbert mocked pundit Tucker Carlson's newly announced media venture by registering an online domain name similar to that of the conservative commentator's project. “He’s launching his own streaming service called Tucker Carlson Network for $9 a month,” Colbert said on his show this week. “Now that seems steep, but there is...
Former President Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod said a recent Wall Street Journal poll showing President Biden's approval rating hitting a new low is "very, very dark" for Biden's reelection campaign. "You know, job approval down, ratings generally down, most of the comparatives with [former President] Trump ... not good," Axelrod said on the podcast...
Sarah Silverman, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and other authors accused Meta on Monday of using their copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models despite warnings from the company’s legal team. The complaint, which consolidates two separate copyright cases against the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, alleges that Meta used an online resource...
Very few people in the Asian American and Pacific Islanders community say democracy is working well, according to a new survey. According to the poll — conducted jointly by AAPI Data and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research — 68 percent of respondents believe the country is heading in the wrong direction. Among...
Lawyers for former President Trump argued Wednesday that a federal appeals court should not accelerate its consideration of whether he is immune from prosecution over claims related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The attorneys said federal prosecutors are attempting to speed up the case so it can be decided before the 2024 presidential...