A new poll has found that nearly half of Black Americans feel news coverage of them and their community is “racially problematic.” In a survey of nearly 5,000 Black adults, the Pew Research Center found that 49 percent of Black Americans said they often see news that in some way is racist or racially insensitive,...
A group of Jewish leaders published a letter warning of the rise in antisemitic rhetoric on X, formerly Twitter, and placed responsibility largely on owner Elon Musk — who they claimed has “facilitated and enabled” its growth. “X has become a breeding ground for antisemitism and represents one of the largest dangers to Jews in...
Some people during the pandemic learned to bake a killer sourdough or binged on TV shows, but Major Garrett had a few other things in mind. “One of the things that I had to do during lockdown was to find myself ways to be useful in the information space when a global pandemic did not...
Whistleblowers in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) case have vowed to not give up their legal fight, just days after he was acquitted on 16 articles of impeachment in a Texas state Senate trial earlier this month. “We are not going away,” Blake Brickman, former Texas deputy attorney general for policy and strategy, said...
Congress returns to work Tuesday to a ticking clock. Lawmakers have four days to fund the government past Sept. 30 or risk a shutdown, and each chamber is pushing ahead with its own plan. In the House, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is making another effort to reach consensus within his own party on funding, after...
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says he isn't confident in the government's explanation of what happened in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, continuing his penchant for entertaining conspiracy theories. “I don’t know what happened on 9/11,” Kennedy said in a podcast interview with journalist Peter Bergen released Tuesday. “I know there’s strange things that...
We’ve seen this movie before. Every time there are changes proposing to improve child nutrition programs, food industry interests cry foul and seek special treatment.
Sen. John Fetterman renewed his call for Sen. Bob Menendez to resign by urging his colleagues to the same amount of attention on it as they did the dress code change.