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Donald Trump posted a furious rant Tuesday over the release of Jack Smith’s damning report detailing the president-elect’s alleged efforts to...
The slow-motion surrender of some Democrats to President-elect Donald Trump on the Laken Riley Act was already looking pretty grim last week, when...
The MAGA fight to dissolve the Education Department is on. North Carolina Representative David Rouzer introduced legislation in the House on Monday...
From New York to San Francisco, Donald Trump’s return to the White House has greenlighted a corporate cultural regression, instantaneously...
Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump and architect of the MAGA movement, has turned his ire against yet another supplicant snake from...
Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he wants to invent a totally redundant federal statutory body. “For far too long, we have relied on taxing...
Special counsel Jack Smith did not hold back in his final report on the investigation into Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election....
During Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing to serve as secretary of defense, Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called out Hegseth’s comments...
During his confirmation hearings for secretary of defense Tuesday, Pete Hegseth was asked about cashing in from the defense industry—and refused...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 14 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
Donald Trump recently declared that the United States is a “disaster” and a “laughingstock all over the world.” In reality, by many metrics,...
Starting on January 20, congressional Democrats must be ready to fight Republicans with hammer and tongs. In late December, a budget battle offered...
The world’s richest man will literally be moving in next door to President-elect Donald Trump. The New York Times is reporting that Elon Musk is...
Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, refused to answer whether or not he’d undergo an expanded FBI background check, at his...
Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, refused to answer a series of important questions during his confirmation hearing Tuesday....
Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing for defense secretary Tuesday was interrupted three separate times less than 10 minutes into his personal...
Last week, we witnessed something rarely seen in our modern times: the ritual, public emasculation of a nation of 40 million people. In a rambling,...
Republican leadership continues to use one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history as political leverage. On Monday, House Speaker Mike...
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance is trying to rewrite the narrative on the term “family separation.” In an interview with Fox News on Sunday,...
Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and prominent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, is also something of a...
The Washington Post’s editorial board made the mind-boggling decision Monday to say they support all but four of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees,...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is already helping Donald Trump get his plan for mass deportations started. On Monday, DeSantis called for state...
Donald Trump has nothing but nice things to say about Senator John Fetterman after he went all the way to Mar-a-Lago to visit him over the weekend....
A small cohort of unelected Silicon Valley investors have been quietly helping Donald Trump and Elon Musk interview personnel for the incoming...
Republicans seem to be trying their hardest to make placing conditions on relief to victims of devastating natural disasters seem like a normal or...
Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s phony science is starting to piss off people actually in the business of weather. On Sunday, the...
Donald Trump is backtracking on his big campaign promise to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, according to his special envoy to Ukraine. On...
Donald Trump’s lobbyist friends are starting a nationwide campaign to convince the public that Republicans’ lopsided 2017 tax cuts—which...
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is going for the jugular on Elon Musk. In an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published...
Judge Aileen Cannon has slapped down an attempt to block special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion...
Some unexpected musicians are slated to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration next week, including some with long histories of beefing with the...
In the weeks leading up to Mark Zuckerberg’s sweeping changes to Meta’s content moderation policies, the billionaire technocrat had plenty of time...
Ukraine is offering to send firefighters to Southern California after Donald Trump Jr. accused the Los Angeles Fire Department of donating supplies...
Elon Musk was fact-checked on his own livestream after making false statements about the California wildfires, and Gavin Newsom was quick to call...
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso wants to use the relief for those affected by the wildfires in Los Angeles County as an opportunity to reform...
The incoming Trump administration is instituting loyalty tests for longtime bureaucrats. Specialists at the National Security Council have been...
Growing up in the evangelical church in the piney woods of east Texas, the world felt circumscribed by an ever-present fear—not just of sin but...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 13 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
Hey, Denmark: I want you to know that millions of Americans think you’re a pretty swell place overall, and that if Donald Trump denounces you or...
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance is being chastised by MAGA faithfuls after saying some January 6ers shouldn’t be pardoned. “If you protested...
Wannabe crusader, accused sexual predator, and rampant misogynist Pete Hegseth is also a Confederate apologist. Trump’s pick for defense...
On a Wednesday night in December near Capitol Hill, a dozen activists belonging to the organization Climate Defiance gathered around a long table in...
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate advanced the Laken Riley Act for debate, which has already passed the House of Representatives with unanimous...
Over the weekend, Steve Bannon’s fury at Elon Musk truly went off the rails. Bannon, who has been feuding with Musk over immigration, vowed that...
In a speech in Arizona last month, as the country settled in for the holidays, President-elect Donald Trump made a flicker of news: Lamenting that...
Another January 6 has come and gone, and with it the furtive remembrances of the day that touched off so much institutional collapse. Not that...
Days into the devastating wildfires that have already killed five people and destroyed over a thousand buildings in Los Angeles, the right-wing...
Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz, wants to get rid of all the nonpolitical appointees and career intelligence...
MAGA Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced Friday that it would be repealing all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. An employee memo from...
A federal judge on Friday held Rudy Giuliani in contempt for continuing to defame two Georgia election workers. In a federal courtroom in...
The Trump Organization has opened its doors for business—with foreign private companies. In a departure from Donald Trump’s first term in office,...
House Republicans have begun devising plans to slash health care and environmental protections as wildfires engulf Los Angeles County. The GOP is...
Donald Trump will face virtually no legal consequences related to his hush-money sentencing, but he will have to endure some undesirable,...
The leader of Germany’s nativist far-right party wants us to believe that Adolf Hitler was actually a raging Communist. Alternative for Germany...