Raw Story - Politics (An hour ago)
Not content with warning Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem that she is putting herself in peril after admitting she defied a court order from Supreme Court-connected Judge James Boasberg, MS NOW's Joe Scarborough made fun of her delivery when she appeared on "Meet the Press” over the weekend.Pressed by host Kristin Welker over reports...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (An hour ago)
President Donald Trump's unprecedented declaration over the weekend that Venezuela's air space was "closed” had a major impact on air travel in and around the country, leaving some experts dumbfounded."Not a single plane flying over Venezuela, a country of 30 [million] people with world's largest oil reserves,” wrote journalist and author Matt...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (An hour ago)
Recent comments by Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) about what she characterized as the GOP's hypocrisy around pro-life beliefs sent the hosts at the far-right outlet Newsmax into a spiral Monday, with the entire three-person panel lashing out at the Texas Democrat one after the other.Appearing on MS NOW recently, Crockett condemned the Republican...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)
President Donald Trump futilely tried to delete a Sunday night Truth Social rant, but his typo-filled fury was captured by various screen shots, The Daily Beast reported."Ther [sic] are laws that effect our nation," Trump posted, but then quickly deleted his message.On Trump's second attempt at posting, he confused "effect” and "affect,”...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)
A special election in a deep-red Tennessee congressional district could serve as a bellwether for next year's midterm elections, and CNN's data expert Harry Enten said the results will likely give Democrats a good feeling about their chances for retaking congressional majorities.Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn and Republican Matt Van Epps will...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)
GOP members are turning on the Trump administration as they point to a flawed policy that they would not personally back. One representative observed there were clear "disadvantages" to a 50-year mortgage policy floated by Trump, while another said they simply "wouldn't take one out." Trump's 50-year mortgage plan was floated earlier this year as...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)
Using the accusations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has committed war crimes and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem admitted she defied a court order from a well-regarded conservative judge, MS NOW host Joe Scarborough claimed the Supreme Court now has good reason to rein in the White House.On Monday, the panel on "Morning...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)
President Donald Trump spent the Thanksgiving holiday weekend trying to boost Republican turnout in a surprisingly close special election in Tennessee, and a White House reporter marveled at his attacks on the Democratic contender.The president hyped GOP candidate Matt Van Epps in Tennessee's seventh congressional district race, where Democratic...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's run-up to the Thanksgiving holiday was marked by a series of inflammatory and derogatory comments targeting journalists and politicians — particularly women.And his uncontrolled lashing out is demonstrating an alarming "rage-filled downward spiral," a Guardian columnist wrote.On Thanksgiving, Trump launched into a social...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
A combination of Republican Party hesitancy and insider infighting has led the White House to pull an unheard of number of presidenitial nominations lest they falter and embarrass the Donald Trump administration.According to a report from Politico, during the first year of Trump's first administration, he withdrew 22 nominations. With the first...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
President Donald Trump has all but abandoned the political rallies that defined his 2016 campaign and first presidency according to a new analysis in The Atlantic Monday, opting instead for his golf clubs, sporting events and international trips that have left some of his allies worried he's lost touch with voters."People voted for him to lower...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
Coldwater residents have learned a valuable lesson: Actions have consequences.Their town's twice-elected mayor, Joe Ceballos, has been charged with felony voter fraud by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach. Ceballos appears to have registered and cast ballots in multiple elections, despite not being a citizen. While you might expect townsfolk to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
Federal prosecutors will argue that "adherence” to "violent and extremist Antifa ideology” shores up material-support-for-terrorists charges against protesters who shot fireworks, destroyed a surveillance camera, and vandalized vehicles and a guard shed at a Texas ICE facility on July 4.Donald Trump's Department of Justice also intends to cite...
ReadNational Public Radio - Politics (3 hours ago)
President Trump said that the airspace "above and surrounding Venezuela" was "closed in its entirety". In response, the Venezuelan government said his comments violate international law, and are a "colonialist threat" to its sovereignty.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (4 hours ago)
A decision to pardon and release convicted fraudster David Gentile has been criticized by ex-GOP party members. Donald Trump confirmed Gentile, the founder and former CEO of GBP Capital, had been released from prison on November 14. His freedom came just days into a seven-year prison sentence for Gentile's role in defrauding thousands of individual...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
Thursday was probably, politically and spiritually, the darkest Thanksgiving for our nation in our lifetimes. So how about a quick story out of America's earliest history that eerily echoes this moment and may give us some hope?Donald Trump has told us he's going to use the 1807 Insurrection Act to declare a state of emergency, which will allow him...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
Tim Walz has hit back at Donald Trump, whose Truth Social post on Thanksgiving was described as "hurtful" by the Governor of Minnesota.The president would call Walz "seriously retarded" in a Truth Social rant, and Walz has since described the comment as "hurtful" to communities that had worked hard to eradicate the word from society. Speaking to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
Donald Trump will not be judged "kindly" should he continue with his proposed peace plan between Russia and Ukraine. The president's team is pushing to end the war in Ukraine but their plan to "reintegrate" Russia into the global economy has become a cause for concern. Documents shared by Politico show the US will "enter into a long-term economic...
ReadPolitico - Europe (7 hours ago)
The budget fallout continues, but did the prime minister and the chancellor exaggerate the size of the black hole? Sam and Anne question whether Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves misled the cabinet and the country to justify the smorgasbord of tax rises, as pressure mounts across the political divide. Elsewhere, have reset talks with […]
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
Donald Trump says a convicted drug trafficker will receive the presidential pardon, doubling down on a statement made two days ago. The president made it clear he would issue a "full and complete pardon" to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted of drug trafficking last year. He was sentenced to 45 years in U.S. federal...
ReadPolitico - Europe (10 hours ago)
Bärbel Bas und Lars Klingbeil wirken in Partei und Regierung angeschlagen. Die Arbeitsministerin stößt beim Arbeitgebertag auf scharfe Ablehnung und findet kaum Zugang zur Wirtschaft. Der Vizekanzler sucht weiter nach einer eigenen Rolle und spürt die Distanz zur eigenen SPD. Gordon Repinski zeichnet nach, wie Führungsschwäche und...
ReadPolitico - Europe (11 hours ago)
High energy prices, risks on CBAM enforcement and promotion of lead markets, as well as increasing carbon costs are hampering domestic and export competitiveness with non-EU producers. The cement industry is fundamental to Europe's construction value chain, which represents about 9 percent of the EU's GDP. Its hard-to-abate production processes are...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
President Donald Trump betrayed what many believed was a clue about a magnetic resonance imaging he underwent last month.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz challenged the 79-year-old president to release findings from the MRI test after Trump slurred him as "ret*rded," and Trump doubled down on the ableist slur when asked for comment Sunday evening aboard Air...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
After Democrats enjoyed a wide range of victories in 2025's off-year elections — from gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey to three Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention elections — President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies doubled down on their gerrymandering/redistricting efforts in red states. California Gov. Gavin Newsom,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Once-again embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a meme to seemingly defend himself from war crimes allegations over his orders to strike two survivors of a missile attack.The Washington Post reported last week that Hegseth verbally ordered a follow-on attack Sept. 2 of two survivors clinging to wreckage of a bombed boat that...
ReadAustralian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (14 hours ago)
The team of a contractor that was the victim of a Russia-linked hack did not have the necessary security clearance when it received thousands of sensitive communications between politicians and parliamentary staff, in a mistake the department has now conceded.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
During his first term, U.S. President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda was often described as "isolationist" — a major departure from the hawkish conservatism of GOP Presidents Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, George HW Bush and George W. Bush and the hawkish liberalism of Democratic Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
President Donald Trump crowed about the "magnificent" ballroom he's planning at the White House, prompting a wave of outraged reactions.The president set off shockwaves by abruptly demolishing the East Wing last month in preparation for the ballroom he's been musing about, and he hyped his plans Sunday night on Truth Social after a report last week...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
President Donald Trump seemingly distanced himself from the latest controversy surrounding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.The self-styled secretary of war reportedly ordered a second missile strike on two alleged smugglers who survived an attack on a boat administration officials say was carrying drugs from Venezuela to the U.S., and many military...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act of 1935 and the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) was created, the program had its share of critics on the right. Some Republicans of the 1930s attacked Social Security as a form of "socialism," and 90 years later, those arguments persist.Tesla/SpaceX/X.com...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
Florida's gubernatorial race is getting messy despite President Donald Trump's early endorsement of a favored candidate.The president's endorsement of MAGA loyalist Rep. Byron Donalds (R-LF) didn't clear the Republican field quite as expected, and the GOP primary is turning into something like a proxy battle between Trump and outgoing Gov. Ron...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
When Tuesday night, November 4 arrived, Democratic strategists were on pins and needles as they awaited returns in 2025's off-year elections. And there was a lot of good news for Democrats, from double-digit victories in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey to landslide wins in three Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention votes. Those...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
In a video released in late November, a group of military veterans — including Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan) and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colorado) — urged members of the U.S. Armed Forces to disobey orders from President Donald Trump if they are blatantly illegal. In response, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is saying...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
A former police officer who nearly lost his life during the Jan. 6 insurrection mad a bold prediction about President Donald Trump's eventual fate.Former D.C. Metro police officer Michael Fanone, who was beaten and tased by Trump supporters during the U.S. Capitol riot, told journalist Tommy Christopher that he believes Trump will be forced to live...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
President Donald Trump made a decision that's hurting residents in a stronghold of support that helped propel him to re-election.The president denied disaster aid Oct. 22 to two electric utilities in rural northern Michigan – where his support has historically run strong since entering politics – that would shift billions of dollars in costs...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
During former President Barack Obama's eight years in the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly attacked him for spending too much time playing golf. Trump, in 2016, claimed that if he won the presidential election and defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, he would be too busy helping the American people to play golf. But according to a 2020...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
President Donald Trump has been hammered over his recent pardon of a convicted Honduran drug trafficker, with the president being pressed for an explanation as his administration escalates military pressure on Venezuela over alleged narcotics trafficking. But on Sunday, two journalists said they've uncovered the real reason behind the move.On...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced an uncomfortable and revealing exchange on Sunday after attempting to blame last week's deadly shooting of two National Guard members on the Biden administration—only to be confronted with the fact that the suspect's asylum was actually approved under former President Donald Trump's second...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
By Evan Ellis, Latin America Research Professor, US Army War College. As an analyst who has worked on security issues for over 30 years, I've been monitoring the US military build-up in the Caribbean for months.The US administration now has the potential to take decisive military action in Venezuela.Washington has described Nicolás Maduro as the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
A photograph taken of President Donald Trump over the weekend has sparked an internet frenzy as critics note what they describe as the president's aged and tired appearance."Is it just me, or does Trump seem to be aging by a year for every week that goes by?” asked X user "Dr. Dave,” a college professor and media commentator.The photograph in...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
A bar in Idaho is getting pummeled with one-star reviews online after offering customers "free beer for one month” if they provide proof of having assisted Immigration and Customs Enforcement in deporting an undocumented migrant."ALERT: Anyone who helps ICE identify and ultimately deport an illegal from Idaho gets FREE BEER FOR ONE MONTH at Old...
ReadCBC - Politics (21 hours ago)
Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin is pushing back against claims from Steven Guilbeault, who resigned from cabinet this week over Ottawa's memorandum of understanding with Alberta and said Canada is dismantling several pieces of its climate plan.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
Before he was accused of sex trafficking of minors, disgraced billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein interacted with a long list of prominent figures — from now-President Donald Trump to former President Bill Clinton to economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.That isn't to say that all the politicians, bankers and economists who knew...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) is pushing back against GOP criticism of his effort to release Jeffrey Epstein files, arguing that his Republican colleagues are "obsessed” with him due to their frequent attacks.As the top-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Garcia has helped lead the push to force the Trump administration to release all...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gave an interview answer on Sunday that some experts and political observers determined was an "admission" warranting legal action.Noem appeared on NBC News over the weekend, where she was asked about how she reportedly rejected a court's order.Kristin Welker asked, "The DOJ said that when the administration...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was left dumbstruck Sunday when, after blaming the shooting last week of two National Guard members on the Biden administration, she was confronted with the fact that the suspect shooter actually had their asylum request approved under the Trump administration.Last Wednesday, an Afghan migrant allegedly shot...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)
I'm not writing to you today about all the things I am thankful for as our 2025 holiday season visits us, because I am too damn busy with what makes me furious to type otherwise.We are a country at war against fascism, and its racist, evil residue. We are at war against a dark, lawless, centralized force that does not believe all men and women are...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)
Pete Hegseth just admitted to murder and is heading toward executing a massive mission that one ex-GOP insider says will "end in ruin."Steve Schmidt, an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign, on Sunday published a piece called, "Kill them all" is a confession to murder under American law, in which...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (23 hours ago)
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted by two of the foremost American artists of the twentieth century, Ben Shahn and Philip Guston. No one is around to see them. They are on the walls of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (23 hours ago)
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) offered a unique pitch as to why President Donald Trump couldn't be "racist,” arguing that because of his friendship with the president – and being a "Cherokee Indian” himself – there was no way Trump could be racially prejudiced.Mullin's comments were made during an appearance Sunday on CNN with Dana Bash, and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (23 hours ago)
A news host on Sunday was shocked to see Donald Trump's polling dropping significantly when it comes to the "only number" the president actually cares about.On MS NOW over the weekend, host Jonathan Capehart was stunned to see Trump drop substantially when it comes to his support among Republicans, as opposed to his overall approval numbers."If you...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (23 hours ago)
Just moments after championing the Trump administration for increasing hostilities with Venezuela over suspected drug trafficking, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) squirmed in trying to defend the president's pardon of convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez.Appearing on CNN with Dana Bash, Mullin championed President Donald Trump for closing...
Read