Politics

A Jacksonville megachurch is requiring members to sign a new, anti-LGBTQ pledge committing to adhere to “biblical sexuality” — or leave the church. Describing the oath as “an exercise in clarity… in a sexually confused world,” First Baptist Church has given members and their families until March to comply. The …

George Santos weaseled his way into Congress by flat-out lying about nearly every major aspect of his backstory. Some Republicans, including those in his home district, have called for him to resign, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthyhas stood by Santos, even assuring reporters that he’ll sit on committees like everyone …

Donald Trump‘s 2024 campaign hasn’t exactly been hot out of the gate. His announcement speech, which came on the heels of his slate of high-profile candidates bombing in the midterms,was panned as boring and low-energy. He was widely mocked for releasing an NFT trading card collection a month later. He’d …

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced his picks to lead and serve on the House Ethics Committee. Three of the five, including incoming Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.), voted against the certification of the 2020 election results. McCarthy previously announced a proposed set of rules for the Office of Congressional Ethics, …

Donald Trump wants to make America great again, and so on and so forth, but now that he’s started rallying for 2024, the former president seems a little more interested in cutting down Ron DeSantis. He followed up a pair of low–energy rallies packed with well-worn talking points on Saturday …

I was trying to do something I never do: take a two-day vacation. I had been in Peru for a month, deep in the Amazon, documenting the Achuar Tribe’s epic battle against the oil industry for my new HBO Documentary on climate refugees. I was exhausted, but I listened to …

The investigation into Donald Trump‘s role in a pre-election hush money payment to Stormy Daniels — the porn star alleged former lover of the former president —is starting to heat up. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is set to begin presenting evidence to a recently impaneled grand jury, which could …

Elon Musk late last year reinstated Andrew Anglin’s Twitter account. Anglin, a proud neo-Nazi who had been permanently suspended in 2013, is one of several previously banned extremists Musk has reinstated since taking control of the platform in October. Some of them, like Jan. 6 rally organizer Ali Alexander and …

Donald Trump derided electric vehicles as inefficient and “ridiculous” during a stump speech as South Carolina’s Governor Henry McMaster, a proponent of EVs, stood behind him. The Republican governor invited the former president to the state capitol for an event introducing the Trump campaign’s South Carolina leadership team on Saturday. …

Jane’s Revenge’s “first communiqué” was posted online on May 8, the same day the empty headquarters of an anti-abortion group, Wisconsin Family Action, were set on fire, and a few days after a draft of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe was leaked publicly. A message was left on the …