West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin put the brakes on one of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ legislative priorities on Monday — substantially expanding Medicare benefits — after he […]
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US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One before departing Harlingen, Texas on January 12, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The White House has rejected at least two executive privilege requests from former President Donald Trump in an effort to shield certain documents from the Democrat-controlled […]
MIAMI, FLORIDA - JANUARY 09: Newly sworn-in Gov. Ron DeSantis attends an event at the Freedom Tower where he named Barbara Lagoa to the Florida Supreme Court on January 09, 2019 in Miami, Florida. Mr. DeSantis was sworn in yesterday as the 46th governor of the state of Florida.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images,)
Democrats hoping to defeat Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida during next year’s election are facing a new set of hurdles that could derail the effort. The […]
KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES - 2021/09/22: Newly appointed state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo speaks during a press conference at Neo City Academy in Kissimmee, Florida.
A day after being appointed, Ladapo instituted his first rule giving parents "sole discretion" over whether their child wears a mask at school, and also allowing students who come in contact with the coronavirus to continue attending class if they remain asymptomatic. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo was told to leave a meeting with a state senator suffering from breast cancer because he refused to don a mask, officials […]
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 25: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks about the new Facebook News feature at the Paley Center For Media on October 25, 2019 in New York City. Facebook News, which will appear in a new dedicated section on the Facebook app, will offer stories from a mix of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, as well as other digital-only outlets.(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
staffers routinely worked to deplatform or censor conservative media outlets such as Breitbart over the objection of managers who were trying not to generate political reprisals, […]
A letter sent to Dr. Anthony Fauci by a bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) demands answers regarding a report from a nonprofit […]
People hold up signs during a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. - "Are you ready to take back our schools?" Republican activist Patti Menders shouted at a rally opposing anti-racism teaching that critics like her say trains white children to see themselves as "oppressors." "Yes!", answered in unison the hundreds of demonstrators gathered this weekend near Washington to fight against "critical race theory," the latest battleground of America's ongoing culture wars. The term "critical race theory" defines a strand of thought that appeared in American law schools in the late 1970s and which looks at racism as a system, enabled by laws and institutions, rather than at the level of individual prejudices. But critics use it as a catch-all phrase that attacks teachers' efforts to confront dark episodes in American history, including slavery and segregation, as well as to tackle racist stereotypes. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
The National School Boards Association released an apology Friday night for a letter sent earlier this month to President Joe Biden in which the organization voiced concerns […]
SOCHI, RUSSIA - OCTOBER,21 (RUSSIA OUT): Russian President Vladimir Putin speeches during the Valdai Discussion Club's plenary meeting, on October,21,2021, in Sochi, Russia. Vladimir Putin took part in the annual meeting of political scientists on foreign policy held in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin told a conference earlier this week that so-called ‘we’ cultural shifts throughout the West are acting as a destructive force and that his […]
Stock photo of body with toes and toe tag.
Nevada authorities have charged a man with casting a ballot in the 2020 election for his deceased wife. Prosecutors have charged Donald Kirk Hartle with a pair […]
United States Capitol Building Senate Corridors in Washington DC
The House Office of Congressional Ethics on Thursday released documents that said there is “substantial reason to believe” that four lawmakers — three Republicans and one Democrat […]