Politics

Less than two months into Ron DeSantis’ declared run for president, his most important backers in conservative media are already starting to lose faith. Since the beginning of the Biden presidency, the powerful Murdoch family has favored the Florida governor in the 2024 presidential primary, largely due to a conviction …

The Department of Justice has already indicted former President Donald Trump on a myriad of charges related to his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House, but Special Counsel Jack Smith’s work is far from over. Among the torrent of headlines, Truth Social rants, and court rulings pertaining …

Nussair’s mother was huddled over his hospital bed when I entered, his hands and feet wrapped in white gauze, blood stains peeking through his right ankle. The kid lay against a pillow in a large wing of the hospital in Najaf, Iraq that smelled like earth mixed with antiseptic. Hospital …

Donald Trump has long praised Kim Jong-un, but he spent the first part of his presidency publicly prodding and threatening the murderous North Korean dictator. The tension between the two strongmen was so concerning to top security officials, a new book alleges, that they held multiple meetings to prepare for …

Lindsay Church and their wife started planning for a family in 2021. Church, who served as a linguist in the U.S. Navy, is medically retired from the military. “I’m missing 42 inches of my ribs, all the cartilage in my chest, and I have a spinal cord stimulator that controls …

Twitter may be struggling to court advertisers, keep the site actually running, and prevent users from fleeing to eager competitors — but at least the Taliban likes it. On Monday, Anas Haqqani, a senior leader in the Taliban, praised Twitter in response to the launch of Meta’s Threads, a Twitter …

Willie Nelson claims he smoked a joint on the White House roof, Snoop Dog says he did the same thing in a bathroom, and last week someone left a dime bag of coke in the West Wing. While no suspects have yet been identified one man is convinced he’s cracked …

I n late March 2020, Haywood Talcove, a CEO at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, was packing up his office, having sent his employees home. He was worrying about laying off his staff, his family’s health, and how he was going to manage two young kids at home during the pandemic. But …

Clarence Thomas‘ connections to wealth and expensive vacations run deeper than billionaire businessman and Nazi-enthusiast Harlan Crow. The New York Times reports that Thomas has milked relationships with the rich he made through the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, a scholarship association, to benefit himself and his wife. Because …

The headlines this week have not been kind to Ron DeSantis, who is attempting and so far failing to catch up in the polls to 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. Even the Republican-friendly Fox News has questioned why DeSantis recently barely seems to be able to break 20 percent, …