Politics

R ight around noon on Oct. 10, 2019, just outside Pecos, Texas, in the Permian oil patch, Jeff Springman bends down to the desert floor, grabs some dirt, tosses it in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. At this site there are a total of seven …

After months of complaining about the crippling burden of high interest rates and expensive borrowing, Republicans for some strange reason don’t seem too happy that the Federal Reserve has moved to do something about it. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced it is cutting interest rates by half a percentage …

The Uncommitted movement has announced though it opposes another Donald Trump presidency and doesn’t recommend voting for a third party in November, it will not be formally backing Kamala Harris’ bid for the presidency. The move is a sharp rebuke to the vice president’s refusal to endorse more aggressive policies …

In Marcellus Williams’ clemency package, his mother describes him as the only mistake she’s ever made. His father left him, too, unwanted. Now, on the brink of execution for a murder he says he did not commit, 55-year-old Williams has a legion in his corner. No one wants him to …

North Carolina Lieutenant Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican Party’s controversial candidate for governor, is under new scrutiny for several admissions he appears to have made on a message board for the porn site called “Nude Africa” before his political career began. CNN reported on Thursday Robinson referred to himself as …

Donald Trump’s politics of chaos and division are sucking America into a dark vortex, just seven weeks before an Election Day that could propel him back to the profound, and perilous, powers of the presidency. Trump is at his most dangerous when he’s in a bind. Months after president Joe …

During a campaign event in Wisconsin on Tuesday, J.D. Vance told supporters that it’s not his job to check if a story is true before broadcasting it to his millions of supporters. “The media has a responsibility to fact-check,” Vance said of false claims he’s spread accusing “illegal” Haitian migrants …

On Tuesday and Wednesday, pagers and small electronic devices belonging to members of Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon. The operation, allegedly carried out by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, killed at least 10 people — including one child — and injured thousands, according to reports from the Lebanese health ministry. The …

The House voted on Wednesday on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded and avoid a shutdown at the end of the month, just weeks before the November election. The vote failed, with Republicans striking down their own bill to keep the government open. The bill going down 202-220 …

Since Vice President Kamala Harris took over the Democratic ticket, she’s received support from plenty of prominent conservatives — who are largely endorsing Harris out of their opposition to Donald Trump. They have said that the former president is amoral, crude, and “simply untenable” — so much so that they …