Politics

When Congress was debating a short-term government funding resolution last month, Democrats pushed for the bill to include billions in additional disaster-relief funding. A cohort of far-right conservatives favored a stripped-down resolution that didn’t include the extra disaster-relief money — and ultimately got their way. The approved measure did, however, …

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and Donald Trump’s most pathetic supporter, hands down, joked on Monday about the prospect of someone assassinating Vice President Kamala Harris or President Joe Biden. Speaking with conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, Musk referenced a post he had previously made on X, the platform he …

After two years of tracking anything and everything happening with abortion rights ina daily newsletter, I’ve outlined the most important, urgent, and useful information in my new book: Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win. In a moment when anti-abortion legislators and activists are launching …

Donald Trump‘s political persona is based around putting the United States first. The pitch, as with just about everything the former president claims he stands for, comes with a few caveats. Journalist Bob Woodward writes in his new book War, for instance, that Trump secretly sent Russian President Vladimir Putin …

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is putting the full weight of the Florida government behind an effort to defeat a ballot measure that would protect abortion access in the state —including by enlisting government lawyers in a campaign to silence a young mother with terminal brain cancer who is warning of …

Vice President Kamala Harris and radio host Howard Stern criticized Donald Trump on Tuesday after he dropped out of his scheduled 60 Minutes interview on CBS News. “I mean, it just says so much. He didn’t want to be fact-checked. This is maddening. This is insanity. What do you mean …

When Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was rocked by a pair of allegations of past sexual misconduct, the Trump administration announced that a speedy FBI investigation would get to the bottom of what the Senate deemed “credible allegations” against the judge. Christine Blasey Ford had alleged an assault …

Vice President Kamala Harris chastised Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for “playing political games,” following reports that DeSantis did not take the vice president’s calls regarding hurricane relief. “You know, moments of crisis, if nothing else, should really be the moment that anyone who calls themselves a leader says they’re gonna …

Kamala Harris rejected Donald Trump’s recent claims where he told women, “You will be protected, and I will be your protector,” which he said while campaigning in Pennsylvania last month. “This is the same guy who said that women should be punished for having abortions,” Harris said as a guest …

A year after Hamas led the Oct. 7 attacks from Gaza, stunning Israelis with unprecedented carnage, Israel has gone from disbelief in its own security failures to expanding an unprecedented war on all fronts with no end in sight. Israel’s troops are pushing a ground invasion into southern Lebanon as …