On Monday, a shooter killed five people with an AR-15 style rifle in a Louisville, Kentucky, bank. On Friday, Donald Trump and other Republican leaders will take the stage at a National Rifle Association leadership forum in Indiana, where they are likely to tout the role of guns in American …
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Mark Lamb, a Trumpy, far-right county sheriff, has declared his candidacy to be Arizona Republicans’ nominee to replace Kyrsten Sinema in the Senate. He is the first big-name Republican to throw his hat — a broad-brimmed stetson — into the ring. Lamb, 50, looks like a Playmobil sheriff brought to …
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Former President Trump intentionally crafted a spectacle around his arrest and arraignment last week, and in his first public interview following his booking, he’s leaning into the dramatics. The former president sat down with Tucker Carlson for an extended interview that is set to air in full Tuesday night. In …
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President Joe Biden says he’s planning on running for a second term in office. “I plan on running,” he told Al Roker of NBC’s Today during an interview at the White House. Biden has long been hinting that he’s going to seek reelection, despite the fact that he’d be 82 …
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On the Saturday night before Easter, live from Studio 8H, Saturday Night Live kicked things off with an Easter Sunday cold-open spoof of the Last Supper. “Alas, one of you will betray me… and though I have committed no crime, I will be arrested, tried, and found guilty,” said Mikey …
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While this week’s edition of Saturday Night Live took aim at the Trump arrest during its cold open, with James Austin Johnson’s Trump crashing the Last Supper to compare himself to Jesus, “Weekend Update” also teed off on the former president for being arrested in New York on 34 felony …
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James Trusty, an attorney representing former President Donald Trump regarding his alleged mishandling of classified documents, didn’t condemn his client calling out the wife and daughter of the judge overseeing his criminal trial in Manhattan over a hush money payment. Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony counts of …
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David Koresh was a man ahead of his time. After the calamitous 1993 fire at Waco, Texas, which saw 76 of Koresh’s followers killed after a long FBI siege, the cult leader turned from a freak and a nobody to a saint of the far right, which saw the tragedy …
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Donald Trump’s political allies are preparing an all-out blitz against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, judge Juan Merchan, and anyone else in the American judicial system who dares cross him. But as his political operation gears up, the former president’s own lawyers are pleading with him to show a modicum …
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Well, it turns out Laura Loomer is not going to be working on Trump’s campaign. The New York Times reported on Friday that Trump had asked his staff to hire Loomer — a notorious far-right conspiracy theorist with a rich history of bigotry —to work on his 2024 presidential campaign. …
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