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Marjorie Taylor Greene, along with Congress’ “collection of destructive MAGA lawmakers,” is directly responsible for the pending economic crisis that’s looming if the debt ceiling crisis isn’t raised, USA Today columnist Rex Huppke wrote Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, MSNBC's "Morning Joe " host Joe Scarborough explained that he is still stunned by the number of commentators still standing up for Fox News personality Tucker Carlson and then made his case by showing a 2-minute supercut of the fired TV hosts on-air racist comments to make his point.

A teenage boy opened fire at a school in Serbia's capital Wednesday, killing eight children and a school guard, police said. Six more children and a teacher were injured and hospitalized.

Donald Trump is “all but certain” to be indicted this summer, according to a report published Wednesday. It would be the second time the former president is hit with criminal charges this year.

May 2, 2023

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The more Republican candidates running for their party’s nomination raise the issue of Joe Biden’s age (80), the more the president’s allies, among the Democrats and normal Democratic voters, are likely to defend him, almost certainly with some kind of warm pap about age being only a state of mind.

Four members of the U.S. House of Representatives from across the political spectrum came together on Tuesday to introduce the Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act, which would ban federal lawmakers and their immediate relatives from owning and trading stocks.

A bill that would force Harris County to get rid of its elections administrator is closer to becoming law after the Texas House Elections Committee approved it Monday.

LINCOLN — A state prison watchdog is faulting staff at the Tecumseh State Prison for firing about 200 rubber bullets, pepper balls and bean bags at disruptive inmate during a disturbance two years ago.

As predictably as the sun rises and sets, every Sunday sees a commentator or politician on one of the Sunday political talk shows say — without being challenged — words to the effect that the Republican Party understands and supports business better than Democrats. This weekend, as I recall, it was CNN‘s turn.

The papers of the late former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens have been released — giving a glimpse into how the Supreme Court agonized over the fate of abortion rights decades ago, reported The New York Times on Tuesday.

Feeling drained? We all get like that sometimes. But it's a state of mind that manufacturers of products such as teas, capsules, or juice cures are happy to offer cures for.

A Supreme Court justice has given the city of Naperville, Illinois, a chance to reply to a challenge to the city and state bans on assault weapons, opening the door to a possible high court review of the issue.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett gave the city until Monday to respond to a Naperville gun shop owner who says the ban is unconstitutional and is putting him out of business. Robert Bevis, owner of Law Weapons & Supply, and the National Association for Gun Rights want the bans to be... Читать дальше...

The partner of transgender Montana state lawmaker Zooey Zephyr was targeted in a "swatting" attack at her home in Maryland — and narrowly managed to avoid danger, reported The Daily Beast on Tuesday.

Former Fox News cable host Tucker Carlson wielded immense power over Republicans, and at one point sought to broker the Republican speakership selection, a former producer said Tuesday.

Tucker Carlson in a text message that surfaced on the eve of the Dominion defamation trial and prompted the right-wing cable host’s firing seemed to relish the beating of an Antifa protester by three Trump supporters, The New York Times reports.

On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina confirmed that his client will not take the stand in the civil rape trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, who claims the former president assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the late 1990s — a charge the former president has claimed is a hoax.

A former FBI agent was arrested on Monday in Oregon in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, NBC News reports.

The suspect in the shooting in the exurbs of Houston that killed five people has been captured after a days-long manhunt, reported NBC News on Tuesday.

Comedian Adam Conover appeared on CNN on Tuesday and tore into its Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav over his astronomical compensation as members of the Writers Guild of America go on strike.

A white man from Massachusetts was convicted this week of second-degree murder and civil rights violations for running down a Black and Latino man with his pickup truck during a racially motivated attack two years ago.

The night before seven bodies were found on a property in Henryetta, Oklahoma, the convicted rapist at the center of the investigation reportedly sent creepy text messages to an alleged former victim that gave some insight into his thought process.

An incarcerated woman in Texas was thrown into isolation by prison guards after they heard her debunking right-wing talking points against abortion, reported The Nation on Tuesday.

A Republican Florida lawmaker who claimed to be gay when he ran to represent a district with one of the state’s highest concentrations of LGBTQ+ constituents is facing calls to resign after siding with Gov. Ron DeSantis in key votes on social issues, The Advocate reports.

Actress and former Scientologist Leah Remini said the rape trial against Danny Masterson, a current member of Scientology, is filled with "Scientological misdirection" that seeks to distract from the "weak case" Masterson's defense attorney has.