First lady Melania Trump split from her husband’s media crackdown by granting access to the same CNN reporter who was recently barred from the White House, according to a new report.CNN reporter Betsy Klein has been accredited to cover the first lady during this week’s United Nations General Assembl…
Month: September 2026
A doctor’s recent speculations about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) health caused one political analyst to demand “basic clarity” about the senator’s condition. McConnell sparked controversy a few months ago when he suddenly vanished from the Senate. He has since explained that he fell at home and wa…
Former President George W. Bush and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) are teaming up to raise money for Senate Republicans nationwide, but they’ve pointedly left one candidate off the guest list: Ken Paxton, the GOP’s own Senate nominee in their home state of Texas.Cornyn is hosting a Monday evening fundraise…
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down an opinion impacting the 2026 midterm elections that one legal expert described as “indefensible.”On Monday, the court ordered Missouri lawmakers to use the gerrymandered 2025 midterm map that eliminated Democratic representation, even though ballots h…
President Donald Trump just took an axe to one of his obsessions with his attempt to fight back against media coverage that he doesn’t like. Last Friday, Trump revoked the press credentials of CNN, MS NOW and Politico, citing negative news coverage of his economy and the war in Iran. The fallout of …
Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker “diagnosed” himself on Monday with a severe case of “TDS” — or “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” a derogatory term MAGA supporters use for anyone they believe just hates Trump for the sake of hating him.This wasn’t always the case, Baker said. For most of…
Things got testy on CNN’s “The Source” as host Kaitlan Collins fact-checked Mike Waltz, the Trump administration’s ambassador to the United Nations, about the president’s reasoning for banning select media outlets from the White House. On Friday, Trump revoked the press credentials for CNN, MS NOW a…
Veteran newsman Dan Rather identified a new sign that President Donald Trump’s move to ban media outlets from the White House has crossed a line that is producing real consequences for him.Writing for his “Steady” Substack, Rather noted that the White House press corps is standing in solidarity — in…
Conservative former federal Judge Michael Luttig had a blunt assessment of President Donald Trump’s political situation, speaking to MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace on Monday.Trump is near the end of the road, he said — but all the more dangerous for it.”Let me come back to you on the blunt picture you pai…
TOPEKA — Kansas congressional candidate Don Coover expressed frustration with U.S. Rep. Derek Schmidt’s refusal to help trigger a House vote on a bill pressuring the administration of President Donald Trump to release more documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case.Coover, a Democrat seeking to oust Schm…