Politics

The country music star Carrie Underwood is speaking out this week to warn parents everywhere about the dangers of allowing their children to watch too much television. More denim and rhinestones please! 👏 The deluxe edition of @carrieunderwood‘s album ‘Denim & Rhinestones’ is out now with six new tracks! 🪩✨ …

The polite way to describe the legacy of a man like Rupert Murdoch is to leave aside whether his accomplishments were good or bad and simply focus on how big they were. It is to eulogize him like Kendall Roy memorializing his father, Logan, in “Succession,” the HBO corporate drama …

At a Rose Garden event tomorrow, President Biden will announce the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which will be led by Vice President Kamala Harris. The office will serve to expedite the implementation of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and the President’s previous executive actions. The office …

Trump’s former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani blew off the sanctions imposed on him after he lost the Ruby Freeman/Shay Moss lawsuit, and now the judge could hammer him. Giuliani hasn’t paid any of the sanctions that he was ordered to pay: In their defamation suit …

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wasn’t playing games with Fox News’s Peter Doocy as he interrupted her, so she shut him down and moved on. Doocy asked, “What do you call it when 10,000 illegal immigrants cross the border in a single day?” The White House Press Secretary answered, …

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced on Wednesday that nearly a half-million Venezuelan illegal immigrants would be given permission to live and work in the country legally. Axios reported on the matter, extraordinarily downplaying it as affecting just “thousands” in its headline on an article referencing 472,000 Venezuelans who …

Right-wing House Republicans dealt another stunning rebuke to Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday, blocking a Pentagon funding bill for the second time this week in a vivid display of G.O.P. disunity on federal spending that threatens to lead to a government shutdown in nine days. Just hours after Mr. McCarthy …

Rupert Murdoch announced on Thursday that he will be stepping down as the chairman of Fox and News Corp. in November, handing over the network to his son Lachlan. Though liberals love to portray the Murdoch family as crazed pro-Trumpers, many would argue that they have shown time and again …

The Senate confirmed Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. of the Air Force on Wednesday as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, circumventing Senator Tommy Tuberville’s blockade of Pentagon promotions. The vote was 83 to 11, and was expected to be followed by confirmations of the Marine Corps and Army …

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) exposed Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) attack on democracy that he is trying to hide as a weaponization of government. Schiff said:At a momentous time in our history. The country is about to go through a great trial. I do not mean any of the …