There’s a hypothesis I can’t shake after years of observations.Alabama Republicans are getting bad at politics.So far, that hasn’t threatened their hegemony. The party controls all state offices; holds seven of the state’s nine congressional seats and enjoys supermajorities in the Alabama Legislatur…
Three people who observed federal immigration enforcement during the Trump administration’s sometimes-violent surge said in a federal lawsuit filed Friday the Department of Homeland Security illegally recorded them and revoked their status in the department’s trusted traveler programs.The suit, file…
John Oliver returned from a weeks-long vacation Sunday night and opened his show with a brutal bit questioning whether Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is still alive.The “Last Week Tonight” host used the cold open to run through headlines he’d missed, sliding the Kentucky senator’s monthlong hospitaliza…
A Democratic congresswoman is renewing pressure on Barron Trump to appear before the House Oversight Committee about his association with a pair of accused sex traffickers.Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) told MeidasTouch podcaster Ben Meiselas that the 20-year-old first son is old enough to answer quest…
The glow is off Elon Musk’s SpaceX stock offering as its value crashes back to earth and investors begin to take a closer look at future profitability.Musk’s meteoric rise to trillionaire status lasted barely a month. SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO propelled the rocket company to an all-time high of $…
ICE won’t rule out making arrests at polling places during the November midterm elections in the event of “an active public safety threat,” the Department of Homeland Security admitted to Raw Story.The details of what would constitute such a threat were left vague.The statement comes as U.S. Immigra…
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta issued his “friends in the press” a blistering rebuke Monday for having missed a “golden opportunity” to stand up to President Donald Trump, one he attributed to “cowardice.”In a video published on his Substack, Acosta chastised journalists who attended the White House C…
White House officials and insiders are growing increasingly worried that President Donald Trump may soon move forward with an idea they fear could “plunge the U.S. and global economy off a steep cliff,” Zeteo reported Sunday, and one that could be executed “as soon as within the coming days.”Trump’s…
A leading child welfare law expert says the investigation that led Michigan authorities to briefly separate former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg from his 4-year-old twins was built on shaky ground from the start — and reveals deeper cracks in how child abuse tips are handled across state l…
Unable to cope with President Donald Trump’s death by natural causes, his followers will instead take to the streets and riot, believing his passing was the result of a “deep state” plot.That is the premise of a new novel by popular author Kurt Andersen, co-founder of Spy magazine, which will likely…