Politics

Liz Cheney’s claim that Donald Trump was so sad after Jan. 6 that he stopped eating is keeping him up at night. In a Truth Social rant published in the wee hours of Monday morning, Trump vehemently denied the anecdote, countering that he wasn’t eating too little, but was so …

George Santos may have been expelled from Congress, but he plans to haunt the halls of the Capitol for a very long time. Santos, the self-described “Republican ‘It Girl,’” has an established flair for the dramatic. Examples include his habit of trolling the reporters regularly gathered outside his office, acquiring …

The Florida Standard has gone belly up. The death of a low-circulation right-wing rag would normally be fairly unremarkable, except that this particular publication is a favorite propaganda outfit of Florida governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. According to a report from The Floridian, the Standard, which has for months …

Oversight Committee ChairJames Comer (R-Ky.) has once again flopped in his latest attempt to link President Joe Biden and his son Hunter to purported business dealings with foreign entities. On Monday, the House Oversight Committee announced that Comer had released subpoenaed bank records allegedly “revealing Hunter Biden’s business entity, Owasco …

Donald Trump was in Iowa on Saturday for two campaign stops, the first in Ankeny, followed by another in Cedar Rapids. And his obsession with the 2020 election continues to be a subject he seems to think is crucial as he campaigns to win the Republican presidential nomination, despite his …

Tiffany Campbell used to describe herself as a “hardcore, church-going Republican.” That changed back in 2006, when she was still running an in-home daycare in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and learned she was pregnant with twins. The prognosis was dire: one twin’s heart was pumping blood for both of them …

The host of the United Nations‘ COP28 climate change summit cast doubt on whether eliminating fossil fuels would help limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, saying there is “no science” behind it. Scientists told The Guardian, which first reported the comments, that his remarks are “incredibly concerning” and “verging …

Ron DeSantis, who in the Congress voted three times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, is now promising a less costly, “better plan” of his own to “supersede” it while bashing Donald Trump for failing to fulfill his vow to “repeal and replace” the popular health care legislation. He also …

The U.S. intelligence community has “indicated that they did not have access to” a document outlining Hamas‘ plan to attack Israel, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said. According to a New York Times report last week, Israeli officials had circulated a 40-page document detailing Hamas’ planned assault …

The life of former New York Rep. George Santos, who was expelled from the House last week, will be dramatized and likely lambasted in a new movie in the works from HBO Films, Deadline reports. The production company optioned the rights to a new book from Mark Chiusano, The Fabulist: …