Widespread reporting paints a mostly rosy picture of receding nationwide violence and crime toward their pre-pandemic levels. However, the effects of many policy reforms...
Over 200 University of British Columbia medical students signed a petition denouncing Israel as a ‘settler colonial state’ guilty of ‘collective punishment.’
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Turkish and Greek leaders on Saturday, marking the beginning of a week-long trip around the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East to discuss the next phases of the ongoing war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. Blinken started his day in Istanbul to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
The National Rifle Association announced Friday that longtime chief Wayne LaPierre will resign at the end of the month, marking the end of an era as the group continues to face legal and financial trouble. Long-maligned by gun control activists and constantly controversial, LaPierre has served as the group’s face in Washington for over three...
Former President Trump will make two more "Commit to Caucus" campaign stops in the Hawkeye State on Saturday, as the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses inch closer. Trump remains the clear front-runner in the GOP primary, according to national polling. According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ polling averages, he leads the field in Iowa with 51.6 percent support....
MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart got emotional during an interview with former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone on the three-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Right after introducing Fanone, Capehart became visibly emotional and his voice shook. “Officer Fanone, I’m gonna try to get through this,” Capehart said. “Thank you, for what you did, three...
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a former congresswoman looking to unseat Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R), compared the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol to attacks on democracy in Latin American countries. Ecuador-born Mucarsel-Powell, the first member of Congress born in South America, fled her birth country as a teenager with her family in 1985. “As a...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) slammed a comment by former President Trump's lawyer where she insinuated Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will "step up" when it comes to the the former president's ballot cases, claiming it shows a "New York mobsters" mentality. "Well, this is the way that New York mobsters think about judges,” Raskin told...
Former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone lashed out against GOP lawmakers on Friday, blasting attempts to “whitewash” the Jan. 6 Capitol riots as something less than what they were as we reach the three-year anniversary of the violence. “It pisses me off to see Republican lawmakers continue to spread the lies and conspiracy theories regarding...