Politics

Black Lives Matter appeared to have gotten a big lesson in political expediency on Tuesday night. During his State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden urged funding of the nation’s police departments. Biden stated, “We should all agree: The answer is not to defund the police. The answer is …

WASHINGTON — When Russia seized Crimea in 2014, President Vladimir V. Putin was so worried about Russian casualty figures coming to light that authorities accosted journalists who tried to cover funerals of some of the 400 troops killed during that one-month campaign. But Moscow may be losing that many soldiers …

Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA) gave one of the worst responses to the State Of The Union in history. Video clip of Reynolds: Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA) gave a State Of The Union response that played like a bad Fox News segment. It was completely out of touch with reality and …

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Tuesday subpoenaed a half-dozen lawyers and other allies of former President Donald J. Trump who promoted false claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 election and worked to overturn his loss. Those who were sent subpoenas …

Far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s planned response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night is not going over well with some her fellow Democrats. The episode is an illustration of a deep divide between moderate Democrats and the far-left progressive wing of the Democrat Party, best …

In what may be the best indication of his continued popularity in the Republican Party, former President Donald Trump won the annual presidential straw poll taken at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) over the weekend. And it wasn’t even close. CPAC is considered the largest gathering of top conservative …

DirectTV has announced that they have immediately dropped RT America due to the Ukraine invasion. Axios reported: DirecTV plans to drop RT America from its lineup in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a spokesperson said. “In line with our previous agreement with RT America, we are accelerating this year’s contract expiration …

And if the conflict is prolonged, it could threaten the summer wheat harvest, which flows into bread, pasta and packaged food for vast numbers of people, especially in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Food prices have already skyrocketed because of disruptions in the global supply chain, increasing the …

It is always tough balancing whether to cover Trump and give him a platform or whether to simply ignore him. It would be nice to have the luxury of ignoring him, but as we saw at CPAC just over the weekend, he still leads a “party” within a party, one …

WASHINGTON — The House on Monday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime, moving to formally outlaw a brutal act that has become a symbol of the failure by Congress and the country to reckon with the history of racial violence in America. Passage of the …