Politics

The Department of Justice is recommending the adoption of “national standards” to confront active shooters — with the aim of empowering local law enforcement to “rapidly stop the killing and the dying.” This “critical” recommendation is a top takeaway from the federal government’s new incident review, which was made public …

Every morning, Veronica Mata goes into her daughter Tess’ room to raise the blinds — even if Tess is no longer there to see the sun. Thursday, though, the ritual took on a new significance. She had at least a few more answers about Tess’ final moments. On May 24, …

Fresh off a historic victory in the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump traveled to New Hampshire and complained to his supporters that he had to leave the White House after losing the 2020 election. Fans had lined up for hours outside in the snow for a chance to see …

ABC News cancelled a Republican presidential debate scheduled for Thursday in New Hampshire, hours after Nikki Haley refused to appear in further debates unless Donald Trump or Joe Biden were participating. The GOP presidential candidateaccused Trump of avoiding his rivals on stage. “We’ve had five great debates in this campaign,” …

Christian nationalists are joining forces to recruit swing-state, MAGA-leaning churches to help elect Donald Trump in 2024. It’s a brazen effort to transform religious congregations — which are technically supposed to keep electoral politics out of the pulpit — into a campaign powerhouse for the former president. During a weekend …

On Tuesday night, the United States Senate tabled a resolution that would have required the State Department to report to Congress on Israeli human rights violations committed in Gaza involving the use of U.S. arms and equipment. Only 11 senators voted in favor of the resolution: nine Democrats [Sens. Laphonza …

Judge Lewis Kaplan threatened to kick Donald Trump out of court during E. Jean Carroll‘s second defamation trial against the former president. Throughout Carroll’s testimony on Wednesday, Trump maintained a stream of commentary and reactions from his place at the defense table. During a break in which the jury was …

The ice caps in Greenland are melting at a much higher rate than scientists previously thought, one that could profoundly affect major oceanic currents, according to a new study published in the Nature Journal. The study, which analyzed “236,328 manually derived and AI-derived observations of glacier terminus positions collected from …

Former President Donald Trump has secured a decisive victory in the Iowa caucus, as supporters braved blizzard conditions to cement his stranglehold over the Republican Party in the first primary contest of the 2024 election cycle. The Associated Press called the caucus for Trump barely 30 minutes after the caucuses …

It’s been a long time since virtually anyone in the elite of right-wing media, the national Republican Party, or conservative grassroots leadership has thought Ron DeSantis was going to win much of anything in this presidential campaign. But Iowa was the 2024 state that was supposed to be his biggest …