“What a stupid question,” President Donald Trump snapped at a female reporter aboard Air Force One on Monday, then said it again.Trump was flying to Waterford Township, Michigan, when a reporter asked why he wanted the Senate to stay in Washington instead of heading home to campaign ahead of Novembe…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised President Donald Trump’s drawing hand as “beautiful” in a podcast rave about his “encyclopedic mind.”Kennedy made the remarks in a July 17 interview on the FlyZoneUSA podcast, telling host Trick Trick that actor Mark Ruffalo had told …
A conservative economic expert warned Monday that a Republican lawmaker worth millions had made a mistake after a CBS interview.Jessica Riedl, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and budget policy expert who has worked on four different presidential campaigns, described why Sen. John Kennedy’s (R-…
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) office issued another statement, accompanied by a photo of the Kentucky Republican with his wife, as questions continue to swirl about his ongoing absence from the U.S. Senate.The 84-year-old senator has not been seen since his June 14 hospitalization, and his office is…
Amid the ongoing and deeply unpopular war against Iran, foreign policy analyst Trita Parsi floated an ominous theory Monday suggesting that the United States could soon be dragged into a second war.Parsi’s warning came just days after Iran’s Foreign Ministry claimed Ukraine had struck an Iranian shi…
A Republican lawmaker’s comments about ICE ramping up deportations of Haitian immigrants stunned the internet on Monday.Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) reacted to the federal agency’s plan, praising the move during an interview with Fox News.”Let’s get them out of here. Let’s get ’em all out of here, and …
President Donald Trump is facing a dramatic reversal on the issue that helped secure his 2024 win, according to CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten.In October 2024, a plurality of voters, 44 percent, believed Trump would improve their financial situation, compared with 38 percent who expected to be w…
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…