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As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, Democrats are licking their wounds—and, inevitably, fighting among themselves. Kamala...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 17 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
Critics of Pete Hegseth have slammed the defense secretary nominee as many things: a vitriolic television host, an alleged drunk, and an accused...
Every American schoolkid learns how the federal government works. Congress, as the legislative branch, writes the laws and sets the budget. The...
Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano became the latest MAGA Republican to launch into hysterics about recent drone sightings over the United...
President-elect Donald Trump’s press conference Monday was riddled with inaccuracies, but one repeated lie about vaccines and autism stood out as...
Donald Trump has suggested yet again that Canada should be absorbed by the United States as the northern country grapples with the MAGA leader’s...
The clock is ticking on another imminent government shutdown, but Republicans can’t square the fact that two of their deepest desires are, in...
Despite spending the week courting lawmakers, Robert F. Kennedy’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services is looking...
CNN reported Monday evening that it had wrongly identified a man who appeared in a video report claiming to be a long-term prisoner of former...
Indiana Representative Victoria Spartz has announced she will be stepping away from the “circuses” of doing what she was elected to...
House Democrats voted Tuesday to elect Representative Gerry Connelly as the party’s ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, beating a...
Lina Khan’s FTC has passed a sorely needed ban on junk fees. But it won’t come into effect until she—and President Biden—is long gone. On...
On Monday, Donald Trump issued some rambling, tortured claims. He bent over backward to reassure people about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and vouched for...
A “fiber glut” might sound like a phrase uttered by a wellness influencer extolling the virtues of ancient grains. In reality, it’s the name for...
Republicans seem to be very serious about sending Liz Cheney to jail. GOP Representative Barry Loudermilk, the chairman of the House Administration...
Donald Trump is incensed after the New York judge in his hush-money trial refused to toss the entire case, per his request. Judge Juan Manuel...
The Des Moines Register, which published the infamous Selzer poll, has responded to Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the paper. “We have...
Last week, ABC News made a decision that should alarm anyone who cares about press freedom: it agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million and issue a...
A group of Senate Democrats introduced a bill Monday to abolish the Electoral College. U.S. Senators Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Dick Durbin of...
Trump wants to kill the United States Postal Service. The president-elect was asked about the USPS losing money during a press conference in Palm...
Even Donald Trump’s staunchest allies can’t be saved from MAGA’s wrath. Senator Lindsey Graham is facing the heat after he contradicted...
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested Saturday that the U.S. government is behind the scourge of drones reportedly descending on New...
Hundreds of drones are reportedly descending over northern New Jersey. Residents have filmed them, mayors have complained about them, and an...
Donald Trump hasn’t yet begun his second term, but his allies are already setting the stage for a third administrative run under the...
Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is sounding the alarm over … stars? A recent spate of drone sightings over New Jersey have sparked...
CNN can’t seem to spot the difference between the assassination of a health insurance executive who made his money denying millions of Americans...
More than 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia invaded the Eastern European nation in February 2022. Cities have been leveled,...
Elon Musk’s favorite Democrat is one of Donald Trump’s top choices to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. CNN reported that...
Donald Trump promised Monday to launch a lawsuit against The Des Moines Register over a preelection poll that found Vice President Kamala Harris had...
CNN announced Sunday that it has begun investigating the identity of a man who the network had claimed in a recent report was a prisoner of the...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 16 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
That Donald Trump managed to win both the electoral vote and the popular vote has finally provided Democrats and liberals with the chance to correct...
One of the most common comedic arcs in twenty-first-century TV is the journey from cynicism to hope. Mockumentaries like The Office, Parks and...
Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg is running for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. Hogg, 24, is hoping...
Lindsey Graham told Meet the Press that Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, plans on releasing the woman who accused him of...
President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently, and warned that “all hell is...
ABC News has abruptly agreed to a $15 million settlement with Donald Trump in his lawsuit against the network. Coming after Trump raged at ABC...
How can it be, you may be wondering, that 55 percent of Americans tell pollsters they approve of how Donald Trump is handling the transition? He...
America is a nation still at war with her mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems, in which a teeming desire for some kind of break from the...
On November 29, Syrian rebels breached the western limits of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city in the north, which had suffered the greatest destruction...
It’s largely passing unnoticed, but Republicans are quietly laying the groundwork to give their full blessing to one of Donald Trump’s more...
Elon Musk’s efforts ingratiating himself into Trumpworld are about to pay off. Donald Trump’s presidential transition team has recommended that...
Buried in the massive list of nearly 1,500 people whose criminal sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden Thursday is the name of a...
Critics are torching a New York Times op-ed Friday by the chief of UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, arguing that the $23.5 million-salaried...
One of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s top attorneys helping him craft America’s public health policy previously tried to push the government to scrap...
Tulsi Gabbard is flopping in her meetings to persuade Senate Republicans to back her unpopular nomination as Donald Trump’s director of national...
Jeff Bezos is planning to donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, in the latest installment of tech billionaires sucking up to...
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the daytime television host Donald Trump has picked to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), may have a direct...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 13 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the underappreciated and outsize significance of local environmental battles: small-town fights over development plans...
After Christopher Wray resigned as FBI director, Donald Trump unleashed a long, angry rant on Truth Social, suggesting that a major purge of the...
Ten years from now, the Men’s World Cup will be held in a country that has long been considered one of the worst abusers of human rights on the...
In the semipermanent aftermath of another electoral defeat at the hands of Donald Trump, Democratic pundits and elected officials have appropriated...
Where do I even begin in describing what the events of the week have told us about the coming Trump era? Four developments this week, in entirely...
Sam Altman has joined the growing list of billionaires genuflecting before Donald Trump. Fox Business reported Friday that the tech founder will...
Next up on Donald Trump’s lengthy Executive Office to-do list: Stop the clock. “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken the Lone Star State’s abortion battle to the national stage, suing a New York doctor for prescribing...
On Monday, Daniel Penny was acquitted of manslaughter and negligent homicide. On Saturday, he is expected to join President-elect Donald Trump at...
In an effort to shrink the size of the federal government, Donald Trump’s transition team is considering different plans to abolish a crucial...
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reportedly working behind the scenes to tank Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s bid to become ranking...
Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, gushed over Elon Musk Thursday, calling the technocrat billionaire who helped elect Donald Trump “the...
NATO chief, Mark Rutte, warned members on Thursday that the international alliance must shift to a “wartime mindset,” predicting years of...
Donald Trump’s sudden appointment of one of his staunchest allies, two-time failed MAGA candidate and former news anchor Kari Lake, to run the...
Eric Adams is trying his best to get on the incoming border czar’s good side in the hopes that President-elect Trump blesses him with a pardon....
Drone sightings over Northern New Jersey have sparked feelings of confusion and fear from residents and local officials alike—but some attention-...
The ex-FBI informant who accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter of netting millions of dollars in bribes from Ukrainian energy company...
In her bid for the top Democratic spot on the House Oversight Committee, Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has found a perhaps...
One of MAGA’s favorite January 6 conspiracy theories seems to have fallen apart. On Thursday, a report released by a Justice Department watchdog...
The private foundation of the world’s richest man failed to donate the legally required amount for the third consecutive year. Per what’s known as...