With an abbreviated time frame in which to work now that it appears Maine Democrat Graham Platner may step aside after a devastating Politico report on sexual assault rocked his U.S. Senate campaign to its foundations, an unlikely replacement was suggested by the Maine Wire.Platner is mulling his op…
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Vice President JD Vance’s latest book titled “Communion” received a scathing dissection Tuesday in Rolling Stone, one in which journalist Stephen Rodrick hammered the vice president’s memoir as being about “what happens when religious conviction collides with a cult of personality.”“Vance wants you …
Video circulating online showing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan clutching President Donald Trump’s arm to guide him during their Tuesday meeting in Ankara is drawing mockery and reviving questions about who is steering whom.The clip, flagged by independent journalist Aaron Rupar, showed Erdo…
President Donald Trump has revived one of the oldest attacks in the Republican playbook, branding Democrats as communists, and one columnist argued Tuesday the Cold War-era tactic may backfire.”It was only a matter of time before Donald Trump went full Joe McCarthy,” Salon columnist Heather Digby Pa…
Following Donald Trump dismissing questions about the Iran war quagmire the U.S. is stuck in during a press availability preceding NATO talks in Turkey, retired United States Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling pounced on the president for parroting Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.After live cove…
Vice President JD Vance was put on the spot by veteran journalist Margaret Sullivan on Tuesday as she wondered why he keeps picking fights he will lose and that make him look like he is off his rocker.As Sullivan wrote, in recent weeks alone, Vance has lectured Pope Leo on Catholic theology — pickin…
Tiffany Haddish turned President Donald Trump’s own hype against him Monday night, unloading a pair of gut-punch one-liners about her bat mitzvah and her DUI trial that had a Jimmy Kimmel Live! audience roaring.Guest-hosting the ABC show, Haddish teed up the bit by reminding viewers that Trump had p…
Republicans have a fight on their hands with President Donald Trump’s latest demands, Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman reported on Tuesday.The seeds of the conflict were planted in the dead of night, when President Donald Trump posted his demands for a new budget reconciliation bill on his Truth Social …
A Kentucky historian who has conducted two interviews with former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) in the past six weeks pointed to a telling lack of a boilerplate comment from aides of the ill lawmaker in an interview with The Hill.McConnell was rushed to the hospital on June 14 after wha…
A year after President Donald Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” to cut taxes and slash spending on healthcare and other programs aimed at helping lower income Americans, Democrats in Arizona are sounding the alarm over its impacts on families in the Grand Canyon State.And the ability of …