Politics

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 …

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022. During a conversation on the “War on Technology” at Benton, Louisiana’s Cypress Baptist Church — unearthed by X user Receipt Maven last week — the Louisiana representative …

Mark Meadows‘ book publisher has sued the former Trump administration chief of staff over breach of contract allegations relating to false claims he made regarding the 2020 Presidential Election. In the lawsuit filed Friday and obtained by Rolling Stone, book publisher All Seasons Press (ASP) alleged that Meadows had originally …

Biden is going to blow it with young voters if he doesn’t change course. That’s the message leaders of several groups that rallied those voters to support Biden in 2020 are sending as the president continues his wholesale support of the Israeli government’s continued assault on Gaza. These leaders represent …

Federal agents raided the home of New York City MayorEric Adams‘ chief fundraiser and campaign consultant, Brianna Suggs, according a search warrant obtained by the New York Times. Investigators focused on the possibility that the mayor’s campaign kicked back benefits to employees at a Brooklyn construction company with ties to …

T ommy Tuberville’s Republican colleagues had finally had it with him. For months, the Alabama senator and former college football coach has blocked the confirmation of hundreds of senior military officers because he’s mad about a Pentagon policy that ensures soldiers have abortion access. The group of anti-abortion Republicans had …

More than 9,000 Palestinians have been killed since Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, triggering a still-ongoing Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. The death toll, provided by Palestinian health authorities, does not include the countless injured in the attacks, and almost half of the dead and wounded are …

New York Judge Arthur Engoron expanded a gag order on Friday against Donald Trump to include the attorneys representing him in the state’s civil fraud lawsuit against the former president. The order was originally put in place after Trump attacked one of Engoron’s clerks, Allison Greenfield, on Truth Social, baselessly …

Rep. George Santos (R., N.Y.), who faces federal fraud charges tied to his 2022 campaign, survived a vote Wednesday to expel him from the House. The resolution failed to gain the required two-thirds vote, with most Republicans and more than 30 Democrats voting against ousting Santos. The final vote was …

House Republicans had a chaotic October — ousting Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, fighting bitterly about it for weeks, and then electing Mike Johnson to replace him, seemingly because no know knew him well enough to hate him. The GOP may have unanimously agreed to let a Christian nationalist election denier …