House Republicans are going after GOP senators who stand to collect millions of dollars courtesy of a veiled provision within a bill seeking to end the government shutdown. The provision would give members of the Senate the ability to sue the government for obtaining their phone records without notification by the Justice Department. In 2023, the department obtained…

Donald Trump tried to wave away recently released emails from Jeffrey Epstein, saying that House Democrats were perpetrating a “hoax” to “deflect on how badly they’ve done.” “The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap… There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else.”

At the end of Election Day, incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell appeared to have a comfortable path to reelection. Harrell lead challenger Katie Wilson by more than 10,000 votes in the early tally. The race tightened dramatically as late-arriving and mail-in ballots were counted over the following days. Wilson, a longtime progressive activist running for office for the first time, now…

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released emails Wednesday in which convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein said President Donald Trump spent significant time at Epstein’s house with one of his victims. The emails, taken from thousands of pages reviewed by the committee and independently reviewed by CNN and NYT, appear to suggest Trump knew about Epstein’s actions. In one email to accomplice…

In placing his spin on the “Predator” universe, director Dan Trachtenberg has ushered in several crucial firsts. His 2022 debut, “Prey,” is the first major movie to feature a Native American woman, Amber Midthunder, as the lead in a film released with a Native American language overdub. Trachtenberg’s “secret” follow-up that landed earlier this year, the animated “Predator: Killer of Killers,” is the first to provide a glimpse of the lethal alien race’s home world, Yautja Prime.

President Donald Trump’s defense of the H-1B visa program during a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham this week set off one of the sharpest MAGA backlashes of his presidency. Pressed by Ingraham on whether he would continue allowing large numbers of foreign skilled workers into the country, Trump rejected her argument that the U.S. should “raise wages for American workers” instead of flooding “the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands” of foreign workers.

President Donald Trump has engaged in many televised rants since he entered politics. In fact, most of his appearances could be classified as such. But one of the most stunning he’s ever given came in his Nov. 2 “60 Minutes” interview with Norah O’Donnell. Trump spoke in his usual stream of consciousness style, but there was one extended riff that was substantially cut in the…

Ever since Donald Trump and Republicans routed Democrats in the 2024 election, the party has been listless, confused, uncoordinated — politically moribund. When I think about today’s Democrats, I see a person performing an autopsy on themselves, looking for signs of life, like they are in a David Cronenberg body horror film or George Romero’s “Day of the Dead…

In the wake of a measles outbreak in Canada that has infected thousands of people over the past year, an international health agency revoked the country’s measles-free status on Nov. 10, 2025. The Pan American Health Organization, which serves as the World Health Organization’s regional office for the Americas, made this announcement after the agency’s measles elimination commission met in Mexico City to review the latest public health data.

President Donald Trump marked Veterans Day with a high-profile ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier alongside Vice President J. D. Vance and other officials. In his speech, Trump declared that Veterans Day would also be recognized as “Victory Day,” honoring U.S. triumphs in World War I and World War II. An idea he floated earlier when Memorial Day came around, similar to Harry Truman’s…

The Heritage Foundation is in the midst of a public and internal reckoning, but it has nothing to do with their association with Project 2025. Multiple members of its National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism have resigned in protest after president Kevin Roberts defended Tucker Carlson following Carlson’s interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. The dispute highlights tensions between Heritage’s historical policy focus and its current embrace of partisan spectacle.

Almost at the beginning of Steven Sebring’s documentary “Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” a film and art installation and photography book that have been 12 years in the making, we hear a narration from the eponymous rock goddess-poet, declaiming a short version of her life story in her husky, incantatory contralto. As Sebring shows us black-and-white images of a train journey, perhaps suggestive of the journey Smith once took from rural southern New Jersey, where she grew up, to New York, where she would make her name — and perhaps suggestive of the journey from birth to death — Smith breaks it down.

“Prey” yields a slew of reasons to sing its praises. But for a certain viewer, what makes the latest round in the “Predator” franchise stands head and shoulders above its four predecessors is Naru, Amber Midthunder‘s aspiring Comanche hunter. Tradition designates women as caregivers in charge of domestic tasks, but Naru doesn’t subscribe to that role. She’s more at home tracking game with…

With “Bread of Angels,” Patti Smith has finally given readers the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Just Kids.” Unlike “M Train” (2015) and “Year of the Monkey” (2019), both of which mixed memoir with surrealism, “Bread of Angels” is presented as the next chapter of her life following the death of her husband, Fred “Sonic” Smith, in 1994, and Smith (Patti)’s return to performance, recording and public life.

A Utah state judge struck down the GOP-drawn congressional map Friday, ruling that lawmakers had unconstitutionally diluted the power of Salt Lake City’s voters by splitting the region into four heavily Republican districts. The decision marks a rare victory for Democrats and voting-rights advocates in a state long dominated by Republican control. Judge Dianna Gibson found that the 2021 redistricting plan “intentionally undermined” the results of a citizen-backed ballot initiative that created an independent redistricting commission.

On Monday, the Supreme Court turned down a request to reconsider its landmark marriage equality case. At first glance, this appears to be a clear victory for LGBTQ+ advocates.  Ten years ago, in its 5-4 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, the court found that “The fundamental liberties protected by the Fourteenth Amendment extend to certain personal choices central to individual dignity and autonomy, including intimate choices defining personal identity and beliefs.

For the past 40 days, congressional Democrats mustered a remarkable display of unity and perseverance. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had finally decided to follow Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s dictum to know and use their power.  They settled on a message: No Democratic votes for a stopgap funding measure to keep the government open…

Texas Rep. Nate Schatzline’s energy was palpable as he gazed out from the video on the computer screen, grinning ear to ear, the sleeves of his white dress shirt rolled up. The Republican legislator from Fort Worth had a message to share with people watching the prerecorded video: As a Christian, you have an essential role in politics and local government.

The rift between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and President Donald Trump continues to grow. The MAGA Republican from Georgia has been intensely critical of Trump’s foreign policy, blaming the president’s agenda for recent Republican election losses. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trump said Greene had “lost her way.” “I don’t know what happened to Marjorie. She’s a nice woman, but I don’t know what happened,” Trump said.

The Supreme Court rejected a petition asking the court to reconsider its 2015 landmark ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in the US. The request came from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky court clerk, who gained national attention for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. Davis was appealing a lower court’s requiring her to pay $360,000 in fines and damages to a couple to whom she refused to grant a marriage license.

President Donald Trump granted blanket federal pardons to dozens of political allies accused of working to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani. Justice Department Pardon Attorney Ed Martin posted a signed proclamation on X that granted “full, complete, and unconditional” pardons to Giuliani, former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and legal allies like attorneys Sidney Powell and…

“Did women ruin the workplace? And can conservative feminism fix it?” asked the headline of a New York Times roundtable discussion/podcast that appeared late last week. Shortly afterward, the piece reappeared under a new title: “Did liberal feminism ruin the workplace? And can conservative feminism fix it?” Hours after that, the headline again reappeared, massaged frantically into the try-hard “Have ‘

Democrats are tearing into members of their own party after a centrist coalition broke ranks Sunday night and agreed to vote on legislation to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The vote, which was 60-40, is a procedural move but signals an end could be on the horizon. The coalition of eight, led by veteran senators Dick Durbin…

It was a hug that sent a thousand divorce lawyer hearts a-flutter. At a recent Turning Point USA event in Mississippi, Vice President JD Vance and Erika Kirk reminded a nation why right-wing Christians used to favor the awkward side hug over full body contact. The vice president and widow of the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk got tongues wagging when, during an onstage embrace, she put her hand in his hair and he touched her hip, demonstrating a level of affection he doesn’t seem to have for his actual wife, Usha Vance.

Donald Trump hates antifa. He hates late-night TV hosts, Democratic-controlled cities and anyone who has ever challenged him in court. As of October, he officially hates the Nobel committee for not giving him the peace prize, despite his efforts to strong-arm its members into voting for him. The president has gone after everyone he thinks has ever done him wrong. But there is a Venn diagram to his vendettas, an overlap in his circle of obsessions.