The University of Southern California and KABC-TV pulled the plug on a planned California gubernatorial primary debate for a reason that had nothing to do with scheduling, logistics, or editorial judgment. The candidates who qualified were all white, and apparently, that was disqualifying enough. The…
Seven Olympic athletes from multiple countries turned on the International Olympic Committee this week after the organization refused to condemn Iran for publicly hanging 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi. The IOC instead offered bureaucratic boilerplate about "quiet sports diplomacy," a response that left gold medalists stunned…
The Senate voted 52-47 on Thursday to defeat an amendment from Sen. Jon Husted that would have required voters to show photo ID when casting ballots in person or voting by mail. The measure needed 60 votes to pass. Not a single Democrat voted for…
Comedian Adam Carolla unloaded on Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday after the Democratic governor blamed President Donald Trump for the murder of 18-year-old college freshman Sheridan Gorman, who was allegedly shot and killed by an illegal immigrant near her Loyola University campus as she…
Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat and ex officio member of the Kennedy Center's board of trustees, filed a motion Wednesday asking a federal judge to stop the center from adding President Trump's name to its building and branding. The motion seeks partial summary judgment,…
Six days after UBS was still negotiating with the FBI over documents demanded by a grand jury subpoena, the Swiss banking giant transferred nearly $8 million from an account held for Ghislaine Maxwell's trust to a TD Ameritrade account. Weeks later, Maxwell used a cash…
John Fetterman has a 73% approval rating among Pennsylvania Republicans and a 22% approval rating among Pennsylvania Democrats. Read that again. The sitting Democratic senator from the state that decides presidential elections is more popular with the other party's voters by a margin of three…
Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accountant and personal lawyer, two men who managed his money, his properties, and his estate, told House investigators that no federal authority ever sat them down to ask about the disgraced financier's sex-trafficking operation. Not the FBI. Not the Department of Justice.…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wasted no time Tuesday turning a single Florida state House special election into a redistricting threat, warning Republicans that any effort to redraw congressional maps in the Sunshine State would backfire at the ballot box. The occasion: Democrat Emily Gregory,…
Alexis Wilkins, the 27-year-old country singer and girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, posted a sprawling 13-part thread on X Tuesday night alleging that a "foreign-linked influence network" has been running a "coordinated operations" campaign against her, and, she says, against Donald Trump's presidency itself.…
The South Carolina Senate adopted a concurrent resolution last week asking the state Department of Transportation to rename a segment of Interstate 77 in Richland County the "President Barack H. Obama Highway", moving the measure from introduction to passage in just six days, with barely…
The Democratic wall of silence around Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is cracking. Multiple House Democrats told Axios privately that they may not be able to stay quiet much longer about the Florida congresswoman, who is accused of fraudulently funneling $5 million in FEMA funds to her…
A celebrity gossip website decided the most important thing to report about the U.S. Ambassador to Greece wasn't her diplomatic work, her policy agenda, or her representation of American interests abroad. It was her eye makeup. Nicki Swift reported that it used Photoshop to digitally…
The Department of Homeland Security shutdown has now dragged on for 38 days, and Speaker Mike Johnson is done waiting. House GOP leaders are poised to hold votes Thursday on two measures aimed at ending the standoff, including a third attempt to fund DHS through…
