“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.”It has been more than two months since President Donald Trump’s tentative ceasefire with Iran broke down, and gasoline prices are still high. With the midterm elections looming, the president seems to have tur…
Republican candidates quietly wish they could pretend they’d never even met President Donald Trump, even as they drool over his cache of campaign cash, according to a new report. Politico revealed Friday that a slate of House candidates, some even in districts Trump carried by double digits in 2024,…
Kristi Noem, the former Homeland Security secretary, erupted publicly this week because a South Dakota news outlet accurately reported her son-in-law is her son-in-law.The latest controversy centers on Kyle Peters, a Watertown city council member married to Noem’s daughter Kassidy since 2019, report…
A rookie Democratic congressman sounded the alarm after the FBI and Justice Department told him that they had been monitoring his phone calls.According to a Thursday report by Politico, Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) revealed in a statement that federal authorities monitored his phone conversations w…
We’ve known all along that the Trump administration would be declaring war on voting by mail as the primary means of sabotaging and stealing the November midterms, so no expressions of shock, please.Outrage? Sure. There’s already more than enough of that to go around. But let’s also understand that …
President Donald Trump’s new online arcade was met with instant ridicule Thursday as critics accused the White House of focusing on remaking classic video games while Americans faced soaring prices.The administration launched a series of Trump-themed games, including “Build the Wall,” a Tetris knock…
The Pentagon was caught attempting to divert funding for infectious-disease research to cover its own money woes, sparking outcry from a Democratic lawmaker.According to reporting by Punchbowl News, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) sounded the alarm on Thursday by revealing that the Department of Defense is…
MS NOW anchor and former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele barely concealed his anger on Thursday while laying out the suffering that President Donald Trump’s war in Iran has inflicted on U.S. Navy sailors.The USS Abraham Lincoln has become a poster child for the issue, having been deployed t…
Supporters of President Donald Trump are rejecting his renaming of Lake Ontario and delivered a fiery rebuke when asked about it.In a Thursday CNN segment, a current Trump supporter shared his thoughts, echoing criticism from a New York mayor who saw no point in renaming it Lake America.”I’ve been o…
Will Saletan from The Bulwark unloaded on Thursday about President Donald Trump’s new oil deal with Venezuela — a turn of events that, he said, lays bare how “absolutely disgusting” Trump’s plot has been all along.Trump, said Saletan, “said it more than doubles American oil reserves … and he wrote…