The internet slammed a Minnesota Republican after his remarks about assimilation at a conservative town hall on Thursday.Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) was among several GOP leaders speaking at the event hosted by conservative advocacy group Faith & Freedom Coalition when he described his thoughts about immi…
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) made clear Thursday that the alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a subject President Donald Trump has fixated on for days, is nowhere on his list of priorities.Asked whether his committee would hold hearings into the “reflecti…
President Donald Trump torpedoed his own Republican Party’s moment this week by abruptly canceling the signing of a major housing bill that could have boosted the GOP ahead of midterms, The New York Times reported Thursday.Carl Hulse, New York Times chief Washington correspondent, revealed that the …
After musician after musician pulled out from Trump’s “Freedom 250” concert, he was left with Lee Greenwood, an opera tenor, a couple of military bands, and Kash Patel’s girlfriend. The anthem that made Greenwood a star, “God Bless the USA,” was written in 1985 during the height of the Cold War. It …
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was rushing to the White House to “unsnarl the knot” on Thursday, just a day after President Donald Trump canceled signing a bipartisan housing bill and signaled it was “leverage” to pressure Republicans to pass his elections legislation, according to The Washington…
Elon Musk told voters they had a random shot at $1 million. Now a judge has ordered him to answer for it under oath.U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower in Austin ordered Musk to sit for a deposition — sworn, on-the-record questioning by opposing lawyers — in a fraud lawsuit brought by two Arizona …
President Trump claimed a “fantastic” turnout at the kickoff rally for the Great American State Fair on the National Mall Wednesday night, a figure that sharply diverges from independent estimates of the crowd size.A widely shared video clip shows a steady stream of people walking away from the stag…
Disgusting, vile, repugnant, supremacists.I can think of more attributes along these lines to describe the six conservative justices, who handed down three rulings today that, taken together, reveal the naked, ugly face of what this court has become – disgusting, vile, repugnant supremacists. All we…
President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Italy has angered residents of his host country with plans to bring his $450 million superyacht to Venice during one of the city’s most significant annual festivals, in a trip he has branded “coastal diplomacy.”Billionaire Tilman Fertitta, a hospitality mogul w…
In her dissent from one of the Thursday Supreme Court decisions on immigrant rights, Justice Elena Kagan made sure Donald Trump’s litany of racist remarks would be a forever part of the court’s historical record.The liberal justice used her dissent in a case where the conservative majority gave the …