On Thursday, the Russian Duma held its first reading of a new bill: “On the Citizenship of the Russian Federation.” According to the newspaper Kommersant, the government has prepared a paper representing a “first step toward a serious review of immigration policy.” Included is the idea that: Russia should be …
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In 2016, Donald Trump became the first presidential candidate since James Polk to lose both the state he was born in and the one where he resides. New York rejected the real estate scion by a margin of more than 22 points, and the gap was even greater in New …
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) extinguished any lingering hopes that she might cast the deciding vote against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon. As she delivered her lengthy speech on the Senate floor, a crowd-funding site created to fund a Democratic challenge to Collins in 2020 crashed. …
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America has now reached the point in the story where a Supreme Court nominee goes on national TV to very solemnly explain when he lost his virginity.“We’re talking about allegations of sexual assault,” Brett Kavanaugh told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on Monday. I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone. I did not …
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It is no secret that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is pondering a 2020 run for the White House. Last December, he admitted — in Spanish, no less, during a Univision interview — that he is “thinking about” it, and has even made recent swings through Iowa and New Hampshire. …
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On Wednesday morning, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon appeared to join those who have expressed varying degrees of interest in running against President Trump in 2020. “I think I could beat Trump,” Dimon said. “I’m as tough as he is, I’m smarter than he is. I would be fine. He …
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Their love story may have bridged the divide between the plains of South Dakota and the wilds of Siberia, but the five-year romance between GOP consultant Paul Erickson and alleged Russian agent Maria Butina may be headed for a crack-up – leaving Erickson in legal jeopardy. In a federal court …
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Randy “Ironstache” Bryce, the self-described “union ironworker from Caledonia,” inched closer to his dream of replacing House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district on Tuesday, dispatching his opponent in the Democratic primary with nineteen points to spare. Bryce debuted on the national scene in June 2017, a month …
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Some of President Trump’s most cartoonishly evil policy initiatives have come at the expense of the environment. In the past few months alone, his administration has lifted a ban importing big-game hunting trophies, sought to repeal California emissions standards and released a plan to gut the Endangered Species Act. It’s …
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On Monday afternoon, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) watched the White House’s hastily-arranged press conference featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in stunned disbelief. “I’m dumbfounded that she would lie her way through that press conference,” Jayapal tells Rolling Stone. “First she said the policy didn’t exist, then she came out …
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