Politics

Voters have delivered yet another resounding blow to the Republican myth that Americans want less bodily autonomy and individual freedom is what the people actually want. Tuesday’s elections saw the passage of a pro-choice ballot measure in Ohio, the failure of GOP efforts to oust Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Andy Beshear, …

Over 100 congressional staffers staged a walkout in front of the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, calling on the representatives they work for to endorse a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. The staffers held a vigil for the 1,400 Israelis killed in Hamas’ October …

Rep. Eric Swalwell took Rep. Jim Jordan to task over his past tolerance of antisemitic statements during a Wednesday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. Jordan, the committee’s chairman, convened the hearing to debate free speech on college campuses and discuss recent collegiate protests related to Israel’s ongoing war against …

Media reporting, including my own, often relies on anonymous sourcing. The guarantee of confidentiality is sometimes the only way to gain inside information. But not this time — not with Fox News. The groundbreaking Dominion v. Fox lawsuit forced thousands of pages of texts and emails into the public domain. …

Robert Kennedy Jr. is polling ahead of President Joe Biden, and former President Donald Trump among voters under the age of 45 in key battleground states, according to a new poll from Sienna College and The New York Times. The poll surveyed 3,662 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, …

Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish man, died on Monday after succumbing to injuries he sustained the day prior during an altercation over the Israel-Hamas war in Thousand Oaks, California. Authorities have confirmed they are investigating the incident as a homicide and possible hate crime, and said they’ve twice made contact …

Rudy Giuliani is bleeding cash, losing attorneys, racking up lawsuits against him, facing criminal charges, and alienating longtime friends and Republican Party stalwarts. And yet, as his life comes apart around him, Giuliani is still promising to go down with the Donald Trump-sized ship, sources familiar with the matter tell …

As Donald Trump prepared to take the stand in the civil fraud trial that could destroy his business empire, the ex-president and his attorneys settled on a strategy built on spite and unbridled antagonism. According to two sources familiar with the matter and another person briefed on Team Trump’s legal …

Donald Trump was rebuked by Judge Arthur Engoron for giving “speeches” during his testimony on Monday before New York court in a civil fraud trial that will determine the future of his business empire. At one point Engoron warned the former president’s attorneys that he would dismiss Trump from the …

New polling confirms that President Joe Biden is losing young voters at an accelerating rate and, as a result, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump holds an edge in five battleground states. The polls, conducted by the New York Times and Siena College, found that the tide has turned in five states …