President Donald Trump is demanding that a special prosecutor be appointed in order to investigate his 2020 election loss, based on his disproven claims that “MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING” fraud was responsible for Joe Biden’s victory. “Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is …
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) urged drug industry executives and advocates this week to personally reject anti-science politicians. Speaking before the BIO International Convention in Boston on Tuesday, the rising Democratic star took aim at President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him “completely …
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Every Summer, my wife and I pack up our three kids and the family dog and drive an hour-and-a-half from our home in Portland, Oregon, to the forested shores of Timothy Lake for a camping trip. The lake is technically a reservoir — with a small dam at the western …
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On Monday, the Senate released its version of the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill.” If passed, it would not only end Medicaid payments for “gender transition procedures” for people of all ages, but, like the House’s proposed legislation, will introduce some narrowly rigid definitions of “sex,” “female,” and “male.” The Senate …
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Texas is poised to make it easier for residents in the state to own short-barreled shotguns and rifles, rolling back yet another firearm regulation in a state that has experienced some of the deadliest mass shootings in the country in the last decade. Texas Senate Bill 1596 would decriminalize short-barreled …
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The “No Kings” protests were historic. Millions of American activists turned out to protest President Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses, on his birthday, Saturday, June 14, when the president threw himself a massively expensive, poorly attended military parade in Washington, D.C., replete with tanks and helicopters. (The parade was ostensibly also …
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Texas is poised to make it easier for residents in the state to own short-barreled shotguns and rifles, rolling back yet another firearm regulation in a state that has experienced some of the deadliest mass shootings in the country in the last decade. Texas Senate Bill 1596 would decriminalize short-barreled …
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to uphold a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors. The ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti dictates that state laws prohibiting gender-affirming hormone therapies and puberty-pausing medications for transgender youth are constitutional. Notably, the Tennessee law doesn’t allow best-practice transition-related medical care for …
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As President Donald Trump weighs sending U.S. forces to help Israel bomb Iran — and potentially plunge the nation into a new war — his decision is being influenced by bellicose on-air content at Fox News. The favored network of the president has put forth a parade of hosts, guests, …
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Among the weighty roles and responsibilities placed on the American president’s shoulders, the least controversial is the practice of calling other politicians, in the face of personal or public tragedy, to make sure that they have everything they need. If a president wants to go above and beyond that lowest …
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