The anti-Trump Republican group The Lincoln Project is spending $500,000 to air a new attack ad in battleground states Florida, Wisconsin and Michigan, as well as Washington D.C., that focuses on the support Trump has MORE
Angry protests nationwide on Friday followed the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. Clashes erupted between activists and law enforcement in many locations, and at least two people were dead by Saturday MORE
The end of the weekly rat race is here, and it’s time to gear up for some weekend extracurriculars. This week found me facing up to my fears of interacting with unmasked strangers. Let me MORE
Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa) said Friday that he has tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, signifying that he likely had COVID-19 this spring. Casey said that he self-quarantined this spring due to a low grade fever MORE
Joe Biden on Friday said he is furious with Trump’s tweets calling for violence against American citizens during protests in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd. Biden’s response was “Enough” regarding Trump’s idiotic tweet MORE
A CNN camera crew and reporter was arrested by State Police in Minneapolis just after 5:00 a.m. CT today. Omar Jiminez and crew were handcuffed and detained as they were reporting live from a Minneapolis MORE
Marc Short, the Chief of Staff to Mike Pence, owns stock in several companies that are doing work for the coronavirus pandemic, which could be possible conflicts of interest. Short owns between $506,043 and $1.64 MORE
While Trump tweets insinuations that Joe Scarborough murdered a former aide in 2001, a few Republicans are questioning his strategy. Lori Klausutis accidentally died in Scarborough’s Florida office due to an abnormal heart rhythm. Her MORE
The Department of Justice closed the investigations of insider trading against Senators Dianne Feinstein, Kelly Loeffler, and James Inhofe, while the probe into North Carolina Republican Senator Richard Burr remains open. All four senators came MORE
Trump allies and donors are getting nervous. Some Trump advisers, campaign veterans and prominent Republicans see the Trump campaign’s efforts to define and damage former vice president Joe Biden –womp-womp– failing. These Trump supporters see MORE
One of Trump’s new favorite congressmen, Florida Rep Michael Waltz, has raised the option of moving the Republican National Convention to Jacksonville, Florida, as Trump whined about North Carolina’s social distancing order making a traditional MORE
The French government cancelled a decree allowing doctors to use hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for severe cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. France is the first to make the move after the WHO said on Monday MORE
The same sheriff who was a keynote speaker at a Grand Rapids, Michigan, rally against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home COVID-19 order is, himself, working from home over fear of the virus. Barry County Sheriff Dar MORE
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum pled with his constituents to show an example of empathy instead of division on the topic of wearing masks. Suggesting the upheaval was a needless “culture war,” Burgum became emotional MORE
So another Friday is here already, and not only is it a Friday, it’s a holiday Friday. Isn’t it great to remember the relief of relishing a long weekend? After several weeks of hunkering in MORE
The Senate confirmed the Texas U.S. Representative John Ratcliffe as Trump’s Director of Intelligence on Thursday in a 49-44 party line vote. Even Senate Democrats were eager to see Ratcliffe succeed acting Intelligence Director Richard MORE
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that nearly half of all accounts on Twitter that are tweeting about the coronavirus are likely bots. Of over 200 million tweets analyzed, researchers found that about 45% MORE
On the first day of a legislative session in a makeshift venue to allow for social distancing, a GOP lawmaker refused to wear a mask. The assembly’s first order of business was to vote that MORE
A party line vote in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a subpoena to Blue Star Strategies, a Democratic public-relations firm that did consulting work for Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company whose MORE
Approximately 10,000 people have been asked to evacuate their homes in Midland, Michigan, after two dams were breached. Midland is a city of about 42,000 citizens, approximately 140 miles north of Detroit. Several tributaries converge MORE
The protester from Michigan, who showed up with an axe and a doll with a noose around its neck isn’t a virus denier. Instead his problem is with the restrictions on public gatherings and the MORE
Fifteen state Republican attorneys general told a federal judge on Monday that they support the Trump administration’s request to drop charges on Michael Flynn, and warned the judge of overstepping his authority. The Republican AG’s MORE
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she didn’t think it was a good idea for Trump to take hydroxychloroquine because of his age and his weight group, which she characterized as “morbidly obese.” Trump is 73, MORE
Fox News host Neil Cavuto earned the ire of Trump on Monday night after telling viewers that hydroxychloroquine can kill you. By evening, Trump had retweeted half a dozen attacks on Cavuto and Fox News MORE