WASHINGTON — The American people disapprove of this Republican-controlled Congress, with a record-tying 86 percent of the public disapproving, according to a new Gallup survey. That ties this 119th Congress with the 112th Congress (2011-2012) as the least popular in contemporary American history.Whi…
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As Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center on charges of wire fraud for its informant program to infiltrate extremist groups, the news was greeted in neo-Nazi accelerationist circles with glee.“Frankly, it’s a w…
When the College Republicans of America appointed a student with ties to white supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes as its political director, social media praise rolled in from university chapters.“We are @KaiSchwemmer,” posted Nick Jacobs, president of the Wisconsin Federation of College Republican…
On Sept. 24, 2003, James Detwiler, a Certified Industrial Hygienist, conducted what he anticipated would be a standard visual inspection of a residence in New York City for potential mold contamination. What he didn’t realize at the time was that he would be recounting that inspection in meticulous …
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), a close ally of President Donald Trump’s, threw cold water on the president’s latest attempt to prosecute one of his political foes in an exclusive interview with Raw Story Raw Story caught up with Johnson on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and asked him about the ind…
In 2019, Kathy Zhu had her title of Miss Michigan beauty queen taken from her due to offensive tweets deemed by many to be racist and Islamophobic. Almost seven years later, she’s handling digital media for the Michigan House Republicans.Zhu has been employed as digital strategist director for the R…
WASHINGTON — It’s an election year, and impeachment’s in the air in the nation’s capital.After 187 Democrats signed onto the effort to impeach now-former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, restive Democrats have now turned their attention to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Recently, a group of…
Three nonprofits associated with dark money megadonor and architect of the conservative Supreme Court supermajority Leonard Leo funneled more than $50 million into the world’s largest lay Catholic organization — whose donations, in turn, advanced anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ causes, according to an…
President Donald Trump claimed during his recent “60 Minutes” interview, based on the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center on fraud and money laundering charges, that the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally was “a total fake” funded by the extremist watchdog group “to make me look ba…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are leading the charge to eradicate state artificial intelligence laws that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs say are stifling, but there’s a problem: There’s still no federal AI law to replace local tough-on-AI measures.As Senate Commerce Comm…