Wednesday’s vote was an about-face for many of the senators, including Cory Booker, Ruben Gallego, Mark Kelly, and Elissa Slotkin Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) A majority of the 47 Democrats in the Senate, including a handful of potential 2028 presidential candidates, backed two resolutions from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I.,
Judge Loren AliKhan is yet to recuse herself from the case, demonstrating ‘an abysmal lack of judgment,’ law professor says Loren AliKhan (@AAPIVictoryFund) George Washington University hired the federal judge who is presiding over a lawsuit accusing the school of “pervasive and severe antisemitic harassment” to teach a GW Law course on “ethics and discretionary
The union had backed disgraced California Democrat Eric Swalwell and now says Steyer has demonstrated a ‘depth of commitment to educator unions we expect’ Tom Steyer / Getty Images California’s largest teachers’ union has endorsed Tom Steyer for California governor, throwing its weight behind a billionaire hedge fund mogul who opposes school choice and sent
Hegseth compared mainstream outlets to Pharisees who persecuted Jesus, saying their ‘politically motivated animus’ toward Trump blinds them to US military success Pete Hegseth (Win McNamee/Getty Images) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth taunted the Iranian regime as a group of “pirates and terrorists” during a Thursday morning press briefing and laid into the “legacy Trump-hating
Rama Duwaji’s post celebrating a PFLP plane hijacker came in her early 20s Rama Duwaji and Zohran Mamdani (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images) New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) wife, First Lady Rama Duwaji, offered a belated apology for using slurs for black and gay people on an old social media account. She
Fairfax had compiled an ‘enemies list’ of fellow Democrats who turned sour on him following sexual assault allegations in 2021 Justin Fairfax (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Former Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax (D.) and his wife are dead after a murder-suicide at their Annandale home early Thursday morning, local police announced. Fairfax, 47, shot his dentist
‘ActBlue, I want my money back,’ says Swalwell donor Lonna Drewes in foreground (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Disbursements from Eric Swalwell’s campaign accounts corroborate the allegations leveled by a woman who says the former congressman sexually assaulted her in 2018, raising the prospect that Swalwell used campaign contributions to facilitate his alleged sexual misconduct. Beverly Hills