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With the United States' 2026 midterms only two and one-half months away, President Donald Trump continues to suffer from weak approval ratings in one poll after another — including 33 percent from Reuters and 35 percent from YouGov/The Economist . But according to Zeteo's Asawin Suebsaeng, Trump White House insiders fear that his approval ratings could sink even lower in the weeks ahead — and that…
President Donald Trump's signature economic policy was levying tariffs at the start of his second term. Now that his own Department of Labor has shown 75,000 manufacturing jobs lost during that same period, Trump is trying to blame his predecessor, President Joe Biden — but one of his fellow conservatives is telling him, not so fast. "Is this all being framed as Joe Biden's fault?" NewsNation's…
President Donald Trump and his GOP majorities in the House and Senate are riding on public approval in November, but few voters are sidling up with either of their economic messages. And recent lay-offs peppering the Trump-voting heartland don’t appear to be making Republicans’ argument any easier as the nation slides into the midterms. A Kearney company construction industry in Kansas City, Mo.…
President Donald Trump’s former attorney refused to repeat earlier testimony he made when called to task about Trump’s criminality. Cohen was the star witness in New York prosecutors’ 2024 hush money case against Trump involving illegal use of money to buy a sex worker’s silence. This made Trump the first ever former president to become a convicted felon when he was found guilty on 34 counts of…
President Donald Trump’s politicized Department of Justice has abandoned major white-collar prosecutions in favor of waging legal war against Trump’s perceived political enemies. But a White House whistleblower from Trump’s first term says there will be no way to hide Trump’s lawfare from investigators when he leaves office — no matter how much paper he shreds. “[T]he Trump administration is not…
On Thursday, Daily Beast columnist David Rothkopf laid out the true breadth of President Donald Trump 's "epidemic" of lies, and detailed the "grim" consequences if they go unchecked. According to Rothkopf, under Trump's leadership, the government has gone "braindead," and if he and his allies have their way, the American people will be next. "This administration has waged war on the First…
When Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, one of the factors in his narrow victory was the Manosphere — an assortment of anti-feminist groups and influencers known for their intense disdain for political correctness and "woke" ideology. But according Democratic insider Sidney Blumental, a former adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, many Manosphere influencers that helped propel him to…
The numbers make it clear: Republicans have almost completely stopped holding town hall meetings in which they’re forced to confront their own constituents . So far, over the course of 2026, Republicans have held just 39 town halls, while their Democratic opponents have held 451. This is according to new reporting from MS NOW , which wrote on Thursday, “The Republican town hall is disappearing.…
Christian nationalism, a worldview that sees the United States as a Christian nation and believes that Christianity should have a privileged role in American civic life, has been shown to be related to a host of social attitudes. Research shows that people who hold Christian nationalistic beliefs tend to, on average, also show antipathy toward religious minorities and racial and ethnic minorities…
In April 2026, a federal grand jury returned indictments charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment alleges the SPLC, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, secretly funneled more than US$3 million in donated funds to people associated with violent extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations .…
If you want to understand how the Supreme Court became the sinkhole of ideological extremism and corruption it is today under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, you have to go back to the beginning and examine the institution’s own origin story. A good place to start is with the debates on ratification of the Constitution that played out in 1787 and 1788 in what are now known as the…
Conservative Scott Jennings was rumored to be interested in taking over for Karoline Leavitt as the press secretary at the White House, and Politico reported that he's now sending videos of himself to staff in an effort to campaign for the post. According to Politico's Playbook , Jennings has been defending Trump aide Natalie Harp after comments made by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) that the president…
In a nonpartisan U.S. Senate primary in Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola won 48 percent of the vote — compared to only 42 percent for Dan Sullivan, the race's leading Republican. Journalist Michael Cohen discussed the implications of that primary's outcome during an appearance on The New Republic's podcast, "The Daily Blast." And he laid out some reasons why it is a "bright red light" flashing for…
President Donald Trump continues to push for a lavish ballroom that would be built where the White House's demolished East Wing once stood, but that isn't the only ballroom Trump is focused on. Trump is also proposing a ballroom for his Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, Ireland. But according to Washington Post reporter Terrence McCoy, it is hitting a major snag despite support…
Despite what furious North Carolina Republicans might say, N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson says he follows a strict checklist before prosecuting a target — and none of it involves partisanship. “We use an objective criteria here,” the Democratic AG told Spectrum News 1. “It’s, ‘Did someone break the law?’ ‘Did they hurt the state?’ And, ‘Can I prove both of those things?’ And if I can check all…
British journalist and CNN business reporter Richard Quest minced no words while discussing the nation’s ballooning debt under President Donald Trump and Republicans. CNN anchor Jake Tapper reported on Wednesday that the U.S. national debt had crossed the $40 trillion mark. “That's a big deal, especially for you kids watching out there, because you're going to have to pay it off. It's a milestone…
