Republicans are starting to panic as President Donald Trump continues to cause problems mere months before the 2026 midterm elections. Congressional scholar Norm Ornstein told The New Republic’s Greg Sargent that Speaker Mike Johnson is scrambling to figure out a way he can put Trump’s voting restri…
A grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted former U.S. Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn on a felony charge for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 19. He is facing a possible maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted. Hearn, who denies the accusations…
Only two hours after arriving in Ankara, Turkey on Tuesday for the 2026 NATO Summit, U.S. President Donald Trump offended European officials by reiterating his desire for Greenland to be “controlled by the United States, not by Denmark.” Trump is attending the event during a time of considerable ten…
President Donald Trump has made a point to make himself the center of the national conversation on countless topics. But it turns out the president’s insistence on inserting himself into sports may be spoiling the popularity of even that.“Young people are getting very into the World Cup, hosting wat…
The Washington Post, on Monday night, reported that former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) had “spent three weeks in the hospital” — although his office would not say why the 84-year-old senator was hospitalized, comment on his condition or say when he might be returning to work….
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to correct a typo about President Trump and the 2020 election.President Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016, 2020 and 2024, prevailing except in the 2020 election — yet according to a recent report, he first developed a thirst for the presi…
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) recently found himself under fire by President Donald Trump’s supporters for posting a physically affectionate photograph on X. They demanded to know the identity of the woman in the picture… but were not prepared for the answer.“For Republicans, the real soccer scandal of the…
Today I’m going to ask you to make a difficult decision: name the worst elected official in America today, other than Trump.The point of this exercise is not for you to become any more discouraged with American politics but to highlight that Trump is hardly the only horrendously awful elected offici…
A Tennessee church thinks that it’s fighting Satan when it’s fighting the political culture war, and the modern crusade has turned a “charismatic” movement into politics. Extreme churches and beliefs that trend toward the more bizarre are those that often get ignored by politicians who don’t want to…
President Donald Trump displayed a bruised hand during his Tuesday trip to Turkey, which is occurring in advance of his upcoming summit at NATO. By doing so, he raised further questions about his physical health.“Trump’s troublesome appendage has become one of the most prominent and longest-running …