Comment on this storyComment After the 1996 elections, Kentucky’s 5th Congressional District served as a crucial swing region in a true battleground state: Republican Bob Dole edged President Bill Clinton there, but the Democrat narrowly won the state’s eight electoral votes. The district sat almost at the country’s political center, with almost 200 congressional districts…
Arizona Senator Krysten Sinema is preparing to run again for Senate in 2024 — but this time as an independent. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Democrat-turned-independent’s team met in Phoenix earlier this week, where, in a slideshow, they discussed the timeline for her potential run, including when they would need to finalize campaign staff and when…
Comment on this storyComment Shortly after a key abortion pill was thrust into legal uncertainty, Melissa Grant fired off an email to her staff: “It is business as usual for us for at least the next 7 days.” U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk in Texas had just blocked the federal government’s decades-old approval of…
(CNN) In his yearlong battle with Disney, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has repeatedly leaned on the element of surprise in his attempts to outmaneuver the entertainment giant and its army of executives, high-priced lawyers and politically connected lobbyists. “Nobody can see this coming,” DeSantis told a top Republican legislative leader as they planned a move…
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday refused to join the issue with NCP president Sharad Pawar, who has caused a flutter with a contrarian stance on the opposition’s demand for a JPC probe into allegations against the Adani Group. The JD(U) supreme leader, whose party, in Parliament, has been supporting the demand for a…
Gov’t orders Gordon Kricke to leave country within 48 hours for ‘non-respect of diplomatic customs’, ministry says. Chad’s government has ordered the German ambassador to leave the country within 48 hours, it said in a statement. “This decision of the government is motivated by the discourteous attitude and the non-respect of diplomatic customs,” the country’s…
Author and political commentator Mary Trump compared a tactic used by elected Republicans nationwide to one used by her uncle, former President Donald Trump. During a roundtable discussion with several guests on the Friday edition of her YouTube series, The Mary Trump Show, the host at one point noted a seeming cascade of controversial moves…
Thoughts and prayers not enough to stop shootings Once again there is a school shooting. Once again the people who vote against sane gun laws offer their thoughts and prayers. Well, guess what? That is not enough. When the Founding Fathers gave citizens the right to bear arms they couldn’t have imagined the guns of…
President Biden slammed the ruling by a federal judge in Texas rejecting the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of an abortion pill as a “political, ideological” attack. Biden said in a statement on Friday that the court has substituted its judgment for that of the FDA, which he called the “expert agency” on approving…
Comment on this storyComment When Sen. Mitt Romney stepped up to criticize the criminal case against his arch-nemesis Donald Trump, he reminded us how far we’ve fallen since the cleanest-cut man in American politics failed to win the presidency just over a decade ago. The disaffection between Romney and Trump, a rivalry between good and…
