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'Mockery of the rule of law': GOP senators vow to stonewall Dems after Trump conviction Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and J.D. Vance (R-OH) lead a list of eight senators who are now promising to stonewall funding increases, political appointments and Democrat-backed legislation under the administration...

Obama To Receive 2024 Sylvanus Thayer Award Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, will receive the 2024 Sylvanus Thayer Award from the West Point Association of Graduates. Obama will be the fifth U.S. president to receive the Thayer Award during its 67-year history. The award will...

Hogan provokes ire within Trumpworld: ‘You just ended your campaign’ “Regardless of the result, I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process,” he posted on X, formerly Twitter. “… We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law.” “You just ended your...

Salem Media Statement In publishing the film and the book, we relied on representations made to us by Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote, Inc. (“TTV”) that the individuals depicted in the videos provided to us by TTV, including Mr. Andrews, illegally deposited ballots. We have learned that the...

Right-wing media figures vow revenge after Trump‘s conviction While not surprising, the furious bluster reverberating across right-wing media still carried its intended effect, burning away public trust in America’s core institutions and leaving a lasting impact on the legitimacy of the rule of...

Cleared: CNN and Donald Trump dodge alleged election law violations The bipartisan Federal Election Commission unanimously dismissed a complaint that put Donald Trump and CNN in the unusual position of being on the same side — standing accused of an election law violation involving the...

What’s the best way to fight viral disinformation? Look to South Florida. Latinos are using personal credibility to fight online rumors. In the early hours of a Saturday morning in April, a man in a bar fight in the Miami suburb of Doral shot and killed a security guard who tried to intervene...

GOP elections board member refuses to certify Georgia primary results Fulton County elections board member Julie Adams was a holdout in voting to certify the votes, and gave an ultimatum that she would do so only if granted access to detailed voting data, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...

A jury has awarded more than $1.1 million to an Idaho drag performer who accused a far-right blogger of defaming him when she falsely claimed that he exposed himself to a crowd, including children, during a Pride event in June 2022.

Former president Donald Trump encountered an unusually tough crowd at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday night as the audience loudly booed him and used noisemakers to drown out his speech. The first current or former president to speak at the third-party’s convention, Trump made...

GOP split in Readington fuels nasty civil war tied to Trump and Kean vs. Malinowski congressional races The backdrop to the story is a bitter internal fight between moderate old guard Republicans and a newer, significantly more conservative [MAGA] faction in a Hunterdon County municipality...

A new Republican governor is taking aim at the state’s coastal protection agency. For the past decade, Louisiana’s program for coastal protection has been hailed as one of the best in the country, after the devastation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita pushed the state to shore up coastlines...

Royce White, podcaster who railed against Jews, wins Republican nod in Minnesota Candidate has described himself as an ‘antisemite,’ said Jews invoke Holocaust to cover for corruption, and called Israel the ‘lynchpin of the New World Order’ Royce White, a former professional basketball player...

Brooklyn rappers accused of murder conspiracy join Donald Trump at Bronx rally Rappers Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow — who were indicted last year as part of an investigation into a vast murder conspiracy by two Brooklyn gangs — exchanged warm words with the presumptive GOP presidential nominee in...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is now among the leading candidates to become Donald Trump’s running mate, according to a report. The New York Times cited sources familiar with the former president’s thinking who said Cotton has emerged as a top contender in the Republican veepstakes alongside other...

Pope Francis has recognized a second miracle attributed to Acutis, a gamer and computer programmer who died from leukemia in 2006 at age 15. During his life, Acutis used his technological skills to spread awareness of the Catholic faith, including setting up a website documenting miracles...

Trump just made more promises to oil industry campaign donors In a rambling fundraising pitch to oil executives in Houston on Wednesday, former president Donald Trump promised them that he would immediately approve their projects and expand drilling in a second term The event, organized by...

Three family members charged in the killing of a 3-year-old girl during an “exorcism” ritual at a San Jose church in 2021 have been ordered to stand trial in the case, authorities said. The trio pleaded not guilty Monday to one felony count of child abuse resulting in the death of toddler Arely...

The eyes of Texas were upon the ballots cast by several high-profile Texas politicians on Wednesday, after documents were leaked related to a stunning lawsuit accusing state election officials of failing to properly protect ballot secrecy. The leak included the purported ballot for the chairman...

Johnson and his leadership team officially announced during a GOP conference meeting Wednesday an ambitious timeline to pass as many of the 12 government spending measures for fiscal year 2025 — otherwise known as appropriations bills — as possible in the coming months. He wants to do so before...