Politics

The House of Representatives voted in October to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, with eight Republicans joining Democrats to vote in favor of the resolution. McCarthy was a staunch supporter of Donald Trump and Trump backed McCarthy’s initial bid to become Speaker, but the former president left the California congressman …

Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social late Tuesday night to demand that the government punish MSNBC for their critical coverage of him. Trump wrote that “MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and …

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has committed the platform to “combat antisemitism,” insisting “there’s absolutely no place for it anywhere in the world.” But this supposed crackdown on hate is being undermined by the conspiracy theorist and far-right broadcaster Stew Peters, who was reinstated to the platform late last year. Peters …

Peggy Judd and Terry Thomas Crosby, both members of the Cochise County, Arizona Election Board, have been indicted on charges related to their alleged efforts to subvert the certification of Arizona’s 2022 midterm results. Arizona’s Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes announced on Wednesday that an Arizona grand jury had indicted …

Donald Trump was so depressed after his supporters’ attempted coup on Jan. 6 failed that he stopped eating — or so says Kevin McCarthy, according to a new book by former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney. Cheney writes in Oath and Honor —which was exclusively reviewed by CNN — that she …

Former Vice President Mike Pence has insisted that his decision to rebuke Donald Trump’s effort to undermine the 2020 election was a direct result of his loyalty to the Constitution, but federal investigators have reportedly pressured Pence into revealing exactly what was going through his mind in the days leading …

Last week in Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could invalidate the state’s comically, ludicrously, preposterously gerrymandered maps. If the court strikes those maps down, it will likely mean the end of the GOP’s decadeslong domination of the statehouse — and it will be because …

There was never any evidence that Pizzagate, the conspiracy theory claiming prominent Democrats were running a satanic pedophilic operation out of a D.C. pizza parlor, was real. No supposed victims ever came forward, and the basement of Comet Ping Pong — where conspiracy theorists claimed everything went down — didn’t …

Days after endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X, Elon Musk flew to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and tour a kibbutz devastated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. Clad in a very small bulletproof vest, Musk on Monday toured Kfar Aza, one of the sites of Hamas’ …

The Republican National Committee is in a funding drought, listing less cash on hand as of October 30 than on any report filed to the Federal Election Commission since February 2015, according to a report from The Washington Post. A comparative analysis by the Post found that with only $9.1 …