Politics

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 …

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 …

Businessman and MAGA wannabe Vivek Ramaswamy has dropped his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, announcing that he’s had enough after finishing in a distance fourth at the Iowa caucuses on Monday. “We are going to suspend this presidential campaign,” he told supporters. “There’s no path for me to …

Donald Trump was back in court on Tuesday, this time for jury selection in a trial that will determine what additional damages the former president owes E. Jean Carroll after repeatedly attacking her despite being found liable for sexual abuse and defamation against the author last year. Despite already being …

Former South Carolina Governor and current presidential candidate Nikki Haley insisted on Tuesday that America has “never been a racist country,” before claiming she had experienced racism in her own life. Speaking to Fox News the morning after her third-place finish in the Iowa caucus, Haley was asked if she …

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 …

Just one year ago, Donald Trump and his team were openly welcoming Nikki Haley into the GOP presidential primary, even as the former president was privately trashing her for being a “two-faced” phony who didn’t know when to stop turning against — then back to — him. For much of …

Ahead of Martin Luther King Day, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his family’s role in authorizing government surveillance ofthe civil rights leader. The presidential hopeful told Politico on Sunday that his father, Robert F. Kennedy, who authorized the wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr. while attorney general, and President John …