For Trump, two days filled with backpedaling and baseless attacks
NEW YORK — In under 48 hours this week, Donald Trump’s social media account promoted a video featuring a term frequently associated with Nazi Germany and later removed it. He…
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A Democrat listed Trump’s trials on the House floor. His words were struck from the record.
The House was brought to a halt for over an hour on Wednesday after Republicans demanded that the words of Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) be “taken down” from the congressional…
How Trumpworld convinced itself that the feds aimed to take out Trump
At the end of April, Judge Aileen M. Cannon unsealed a number of documents related to the investigation into Donald Trump’s retention of documents marked as classified after he left…
Biden’s base isn’t as freaked out as he might want them to be
When Yahoo News presented Americans with a number of phrases describing the 2024 presidential election, the one that received the most agreement from poll respondents was one focused on the…
Angela Martinez confirmed as U.S. judge in major milestone for Biden
The Senate confirmed President Biden’s 200th judicial nominee Wednesday, a significant milestone for Democratic and White House efforts to remake a federal court system that grew increasingly conservative under President…
The many punts of Donald Trump
Former president Donald Trump’s botched handling of a question about contraception was somewhat inexplicable. When asked by a local TV news reporter if he supported any restrictions on contraception, Trump…
Obviously there are people in New York who support Donald Trump
One of the lines of argument used by Donald Trump and his supporters to attack the criminal trial that’s underway in Manhattan is that no jury in such a pro-Democratic…
Pro-Palestinian college protests have not won hearts and minds
Pro-Palestinian college protests have faded somewhat from the news, as law enforcement has cracked down on encampments and schools break for the summer — though the protests continue on some…
GOP challengers make gains but lose bid to oust hard right in North Idaho
A rebel Republican bloc aiming to curb far-right extremism in North Idaho made significant gains Tuesday, flipping dozens of local seats, but fell short of the votes needed to change…
Giuliani says he will stop accusing Georgia workers of election tampering
Rudy Giuliani has agreed to no longer accuse two Georgia poll workers of tampering with the 2020 election, according to a draft agreement filed Tuesday in federal bankruptcy court. The…