Tagged: SCOTUS

Some of you may remember that the conservative tea party was founded in 2009 after CNBC analyst Rick Santelli offered an unprecedented, on-camera rant from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, railing against the Obama administration and calling for the formation of a new "tea party." Grassroots folks took ...

Democratic presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden has tried very hard in recent weeks to MAGA-fy his campaign by playing off President Trump's enormously successful "Make America Great Again" motto — universally recognized by the acronym "MAGA," now emblazoned on a million red baseball caps, this according ...

A new Gallup poll got considerable news coverage and some screaming headlines this week by revealing: "Four-out-of 10 Americans embrace some form of socialism." It is understandable that such a finding would prove intensely interesting in a political climate which finds Democratic socialism both in style and intriguing among many ...

A clash of the titans in the Wolverine State? Rep. Justin Amash is getting serious political pushback after he called for President Trump to be impeached. The Michigan Republican now has a challenge for his seat from state Rep. Jim Lower, who announced his intentions to run for the office ...

President Trump will journey to Montoursville, Pennsylvania, on Monday evening for a jumbo campaign-style rally in an aviation hangar at a regional airport. The town is located about 100 miles west of Scranton, has a population of 4,777 — and there is festival-style excitement in the air. Over 10,000 people ...

The two-year investigation into President Trump's possible "collusion" with Russia has prompted an unexpected benefit: a tidy bump in favorability. "Trump's job approval rating has seen a post Mueller report boost," reports a new Zogby Analytics survey of 852 likely voters finds Mr. Trump with a 51% overall approval rating ...

A significant study of American news coverage reveals what many people already suspect: Journalism has jettisoned the use of public language, references to authority, and event-based reporting in favor of personal perspective, narration and subjectivity. So says the RAND Corporation, which tracked almost three decades of news coverage produced by ...

Hudson Institute senior fellow Richard Weitz is calling attention to what he deems an "emerging China-Russia Axis" built around a military relationship between the two nations which is bolstered by arms sales, joint military exercises, battlefield technologies and other mutual defense ties. Mr. Weitz suggests the powerful pair have overcome ...

There has been much chatter about "Trump derangement syndrome" over the years. Following the Mueller investigation, David Catron, a columnist for The American Spectator, sums up the current fixation on Russian collusion: "There is no constitutional crisis — just a crisis of Democratic confidence," he writes. Some say the Democrats ...

Socialism does not have much allure for voters, according to a major pollster, which might be news of interest for Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent and self-described democratic socialist. "Less than half of Americans (47%) say they would vote for a qualified presidential candidate who is a socialist," says a ...

Roughly three dozen House Democrats have called for impeachment hearings on President Donald Trump, and legal experts find clear justification in special counsel Robert Mueller's report. Pelosi keeps resisting.

French police were hunting a suspected suitcase bomber on Friday after an explosion in the central city of Lyon that injured 13 people, officials said.

SpaceX has raised just over $1 billion in financing since the beginning of the year.

The Moelis & Co. founder says the current market volatility from tense U.S.-China relations is impacting large-cap stocks.

Former Goldman Sachs macro trader and Fortress hedge-fund manager is the latest to point out problems with modern-day capitalism and income inequality.

The therapy, Zolgensma, is a one-time treatment for spinal muscular atrophy — a muscle-wasting disease and leading genetic cause of infant mortality, affecting 1 in every 11,000 live births.

The Pentagon will send additional American troops, drones and fighter jets to the Middle East amid increasing tensions between the United States and Iran.

United Airlines will take its 14 Boeing 737 Max jets off its schedule for another month, through Aug. 3, canceling another 1,290 flights.

Six S&P 500 sectors now sport similar or higher dividend yields than the U.S. 10-year Treasury, and some experts like what they see in the groups.

On Friday, director Jeff Fowler tweeted that "Sonic the Hedgehog" will not be released until February. The film had been set for November.

The House minority leader says he's been opposed to abortion rights his "whole political career." But early on he was pegged as a moderate.

Armed with misleading claims, the president seeks to take a Democratic rival down a notch.

Senior Trump campaign adviser Katrina Pierson tweeted a video captioned “Rockets fired into Israel from Gaza" during a violent uptick along the border between Israel and Gaza. But the video wasn't from Gaza and wasn't filmed in 2019.

More than a year ago, revised numbers showed that the Texas maternal mortality rate was not as high as previously believed. But the news apparently has not reached Congress.

Many red lights were blinking about the potential problems with tapping Michael Flynn as national security adviser. The president chose to ignore them.

The former vice president says he was "always labeled as one of the most liberal members of the United States Congress." It depends on how you measure it.

President Bill Clinton has said the 1994 crime bill contributed to the high incarceration rate in the United States. But Biden disputes that.

The president likes to tell a story through his tweets, even if the facts are not correct.

Harris (D-Calif.) argues there will still be a role for private insurance in a government-run system. But the bill she co-sponsors says it would be very limited.

Harris (D-Calif.) argues there will still be a role for private insurance in a government-run system. But the bill she co-sponsors says it would be very limited.

Nancy Pelosi's case against impeachment is growing incoherent.

In a new national survey, the party's primary voters prefer female candidates of color in 2020. So why are two white guys in the lead?

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WASHINGTON - Once again, United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is large and in charge. Once again, President

Splitting the progressive vote will guarantee defeat

Too many Democrats would rather reopen the wounds of yesterday than promote policies that strengthen the black community of tomorrow.

A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty on Friday to threatening to murder a U.S. senator over what he said was criticism of President Trump.Michael Brogan faces up to 10 years in prison, ...

A federal judge on Friday blocked a Mississippi law that banned abortions once a fetus's heartbeat is detected, as early as six weeks into pregnancy.Judge Carlton Reeves, an Obama appointee, wrote that the law "thr...

President Trump's decision giving Attorney General William Barr "full and complete authority" to declassify documents related to surveillance activities during the 2016 campaign has set off a wave of criticism in Washingt...

Democratic candidates for president or their representatives will be involved when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) does a lottery to determine who stands on stage during the party's initial two-day debate, DNC Cha...

Nearly 600 animals were rescued this week from two properties in Indiana where owners were suspected of running dog and rooster fighting rings.The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) s...

Even Fox & Friends had to admit the doctored videos made to look like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurred her speech as if she was drunk were fake.During a Friday segment on the president’s favorite morning show, vloggers and social-media personalities Diamond and Silk took a cue from Trump and attacked newly nicknamed “Crazy Nancy” […]

This week: Booksmart Is So Much Damn FunI can’t remember a time when I had as much fun watching a movie in a theater as when I first screened Booksmart. (OK, it was Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, obviously—I burst into tears of joy when “Dancing Queen” started playing—but bear with me for the […]

REUTERS/Shannon StapletonJimmy Fallon, once one of the funniest men on late-night TV, is no longer laughing. Page Six reports that NBC’s late-night host is scrambling to keep his show afloat after his ratings have been plummeting and he struggled to recover from the infamous 2016 softball interview with Donald Trump.Fallon was shepherded to stardom by […]

Courtesy of Sony PicturesIntegral to the Superman myth is the issue of nature versus nurture. In its classical incarnation, the DC Comics icon is both the offspring of noble Kryptonian parents and the beneficiary of good old-fashioned heartland values, courtesy of Kansas’ Jonathan and Martha Kent. It’s the latter, however, that fundamentally shape alien Kal-El […]

Courtesy Matthew BensonI’ve said it before; I’ll say it again: Brisket is simultaneously the easiest and most difficult meat there is to barbecue. Easy, because all you do is season it with salt and pepper and smoke it low and slow until it’s tender enough to cut with the side of a fork. Difficult, because […]

Reuters / Toby MelvilleLONDON—Well, at last, it's happened.The woman who became prime minister by default, who gave herself one job in office and repeatedly failed to deliver, has finally accepted that she is no longer wanted. After spending three years lurching from one disaster to another—slowly but surely losing the support of Parliament, her party, […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyAs President Donald Trump hammers home the perils of immigrants flooding the southern border, his message is going nearly unanswered by Democrats online.Democratic entities with a stake in the 2020 election are significantly lagging behind Trump’s immigration messaging on digital platforms like Facebook and Google, according to data from the […]

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyDoctors have lots of ways of seeing what’s going on inside your body, but none of them is really ideal. Pictures from the outside obviously don’t show everything. Colonoscopes are... uncomfortable and can only reach your lower intestine. And even modern, advanced PillCams, while revolutionary, only give doctors access […]

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyIs literacy the new tiny sunglasses? This week, the Daily Mail published a series of photos of Kendall Jenner and model Luka Sabbat sunbathing and reading at Cannes. The treasure trove of images (thank the Daily Mail, as always, for doing entirely too much) was published as proof that […]

Mandel Ngan/GettyRAMALLAH—As the Trump administration tries to build suspense about its long anticipated peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, dubbed improbably “the Deal of the Century,” some things have changed dramatically on the ground here, and some decidedly have not.  President Donald Trump has encouraged hostility toward the Palestinian Authority, slashing assistance left and right, […]