5+ day, 11+ min ago   (1321+ words) Never forget? Senator Ted Cruz suggested that President Donald Trump may not be able to remember what happened on 9/11. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked the Texas Republican Tuesday night what he made of Trump’s widely publicized—and decontextualized—comments at his…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1712+ words) The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Amanda Marcotte: Thanks for having me. Sargent: OK, so Trump unleashes all these crazy Truth Social posts in the last…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1479+ words) The Trump administration is moving to strip a rule barring private equity officials from engaging in “pay-to-play” schemes with government officials. The Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to revoke Rule 206(4)-5 under the Investment Advisers Act, arguing that it chills…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1418+ words) On this cusp of Labor Day, when election campaigns kick into fourth gear, I don’t want to jinx anything, but I have to say it: The voters are going to barber-strap Donald Trump in the November midterms. The first is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (903+ words) President Donald Trump admitted that he’s just building monuments to himself. In a sprawling dispatch Friday, New York Magazine’s Ben Terris asked Trump what he made of a viral barb from Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator from Georgia who suggested…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (945+ words) President Donald Trump crashed out on Thursday night after the Missouri Supreme Court struck down Republican redistricting efforts ahead of midterm elections—changing the House map after the primary and before November in an unprecedented move. The court’s unanimous ruling…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1305+ words) House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was sent scrambling to get his party members in line on Tuesday after two Democrats voted to advance the Republican legislative agenda. Jeffries, joined by Democratic Whip Katherine Clark and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, announced…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (68+ words) The New Republic I do not know whether the justices particularly care about Clyburn’s position on anything. But they should take stock of what it reflects: a deep and implacable desire among Democrats to break the conservatives’ grip on the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (253+ words) Eleven days later, he was impeached by the country’s national assembly. In January this year, he was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty over the decree, and he awaits further trials that could result in the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1063+ words) A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to continue construction on his White House ballroom. In a 5–4 decision that broke somewhat along traditional ideological lines, the court granted an emergency request filed by the Trump administration to proceed…...