Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan complained about the bright-colored decorations at the United Nations General Assembly this week in New York City, saying the “LGBT colors” upset him. The multi-colored lights were installed to promote the U.N.’s sustainable development goals, which the session was intended to feature. Erdoğan told Turkish media that he wants to...

Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) joined the United Auto Workers picket line in his home state on Friday, claiming the union members' “fundamental struggle” will help all families in the communities he represents. “We’ve got some distance to go. This is a fundamental struggle,” Kildee said told MSNBC in an interview on Friday. “Just to be...

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Friday said Sen. Bob Menendez's (D-N.J.) indictment on federal bribery charges somewhat weakens Republicans' claims that there are two systems of justice. When asked if he thought the two-tiered justice argument was undercut by the indictment, Bacon said, "I think it does to a degree." "I have always believed in...

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) brushed off threats to Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) top position, saying threats from conservative Republicans to remove him don’t hold water. “It only takes four Republicans to potentially put [McCarthy] at risk and lose the speakership, but the fact is they have no alternative,” Bacon said Friday in an interview on...

A retired FBI agent pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he concealed foreign payments of over $225,000 from an Albanian official when he was leading the bureau’s counterintelligence operations in Europe, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced. Prosecutors allege Charles McGonigal, who was in charge of the FBI counterintelligence division in New York, accepted the...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) denounced attacks on her character after she was kicked out of a theater last week as a “distraction” from government funding efforts. “This whole week has been a total distraction,” Boebert said in a Fox News interview Friday. “We are on the verge of a government shutdown." "We have muscle memory...

A Maryland man who attacked police and a photographer from The Associated Press during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). Rodney Milstreed pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon and illegal firearm possession in...