Recent news reports say U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has a Utah federal prosecutor looking into allegations of misconduct at the Justice Department and FBI. But most TV news outlets have spent much of the week focused on the claims associated with porn star Stormy Daniels’ alleged sexual relationship with Donald Trump 12 years ago.
Rumors are swirling around that Paul Ryan may step down as Speaker of the House of Representatives. While he is liked by a strong majority of Republicans, they wouldn’t be sad to see him go.
"Pope Declares No Hell?"
So ran the riveting headline on the Drudge Report of Holy Thursday.
The U.S. Census Bureau released their 2020 census questions, including one that asks whether respondents are legal U.S. citizens. Americans recognize the importance of the census and are on board with including the question moving forward.
Some days, the Republican Party seems on the verge of splitting up. Its congressional majorities couldn't produce a health care bill and passed an omnibus spending bill its president regretted signing. Prominent never-Trumpers call for the creation of a new political party. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who carried seven counties outside his home state in the 2016 Republican primaries, hints at a 2020 independent candidacy.
A funeral is being held in Sacramento today for Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was killed by Sacramento police officers in his grandmother’s backyard.
CBS-TV’s long-running “60 Minutes” series scored its highest-ever ratings Sunday night with its interview of porn star Stormy Daniels who claims she had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump 12 years ago. But most voters don’t attach much importance to her claims now that Trump is president of the United States.
If only it was as easy to expel American porn stars as Russian spies.
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels is finally telling what her Los Angeles lawyer and former Democratic operative calls her “righteous” story.
Republicans continue to like President Trump's kind of leadership, while Democrats and unaffiliated voters believe he’s too confrontational.
In the roughly two and a half months since we last assessed an already-long list of House open seats this cycle -- and even in the week since my colleague Geoffrey Skelley took a deep look at the pace of House retirements historically -- the number of open House seats has continued to increase.
As Tax Day approaches, Americans are less worried about getting audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) than they were this time last year.
Seventy years ago, President-elect Harry Truman stood at St. Louis Union Station grinning before the cameras as he held a copy of that day’s Chicago Daily Tribune with a front-page banner headline that erroneously declared “Dewey Defeats Truman.”
How sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a despotic pediatric dentist.
This past Saturday, thousands of Americans participated in March for Our Lives events for stronger gun control and protections for students in light of last month’s Parkland, Florida school shooting. While voters aren’t convinced the marches will bring about change, they definitely see more political involvement among students today.
President Trump praised the United States' relationship with Saudi Arabia in a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but it appears voters aren't as enthusiastic as the president.
In the movie "The Matrix," swallowing a red pill reveals the truth, while downing a blue pill leaves you trapped in illusion.
Today, in the parlance of some political activists, "taking the red pill" means seeing the lies of mainstream media -- and learning the truth.
Even as President Trump imposes tariffs on billions of dollars in Chinese goods to balance the trade playing field, voters here continue to view China as an economic threat and think the U.S. government has been too easy on it.
The last man standing between the U.S. and war with Iran may be a four-star general affectionately known to his Marines as "Mad Dog."
Hillary Clinton is being universally panned by Republicans and Democrats for her recent rant against people who voted for Donald Trump. While giving a speech in Mumbai, India, Clinton boasted that she "won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product." She went on: "So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward." As evidence, she pointed to places such as Illinois, where she won by sizable margins. Then she added that those who voted against her "didn't like black people getting rights, and don't like women ... getting jobs."
With questions being raised about Facebook's mining of users' private data, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the heat.
