Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) quoted the popular Disney+ TV show “Andor” while cheering comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s return to his late-night ABC show. “‘Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that,’” Pritzker said in a post Monday evening on the social platform X, referencing…
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President Donald Trump is peddling the unproven theory that Tylenol use during pregnancy is linked to autism.
Experts say the rhetoric appears to ignore and undermine decades of science into the genetic and environmental factors that can play a role in the disorder.
Trump recently signed into law food benefit cuts estimated to affect 2.4 million people in the coming years.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday it would not follow California’s new law banning its agents from covering their faces during enforcement operations. “To be clear: We will NOT comply with [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban,” DHS said Monday in a post on the social platform X. DHS suggested the masks…
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Comedian Jimmy Kimmel will return to ABC, less than a week after his show was suspended following comments about Charlie Kirk’s murder.
Satisfaction with the direction of the country reached its lowest point of President Trump’s second term in office, according to the latest Gallup poll, though views remain broadly more positive than before he took office. Twenty-nine percent of survey respondents say they’re satisfied “with the way things are going in the United States at this…
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Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) is reportedly considering a bid for higher office.
The court will hear arguments unusually early in the process, before the case has fully worked its way through lower courts.
Democrats are frustrated with former Vice President Kamala Harris, arguing her new book is picking fights and causing divisions at the worst possible time for the party. They say Harris’s memoir, “107 Days,” which will be out publicly Tuesday, comes at a time when the party is attempting to find its way out of the wilderness after…
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There’s a term floating around right now — “the woke right.” And if you haven’t heard it before, you’re about to hear it a lot. It’s being used to describe conservatives who are suddenly embracing the very tactics they’ve spent years mocking: moral shaming, loyalty tests and cancel culture-style pile-ons. James Lindsay — a writer who…
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Nearly 2 million Americans have been unemployed six months or longer.
The president’s eldest son also took aim at his father’s political opponents, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
Democrats are expressing outrage over a reported probe involving White House border czar Tom Homan and an undercover operation last year in which he was recorded taking $50,000. “Did Trump’s DOJ shut down this bribery investigation? Was it Attorney General Bondi or FBI Director Patel? The act was caught on camera. The administration must turn…
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Mike Waltz, the newly confirmed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on Monday called on Russia to “urgently stop” violating NATO countries’ airspaces and pushed for de-escalation in the region. In remarks at his first U.N. Security Council briefing, Waltz condemned the Russian fighter jets’ intrusion into Estonian airspace on Friday, just more than a…
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(KTLA) — Last week, ABC suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” after backlash over the late-night host’s remarks on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. While many media reports highlighted Kimmel’s Sept. 15 monologue as the catalyst, a look back at his final episodes shows he raised the topic in multiple monologues since Sept. 10. So, what did…
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Attorney General Pam Bondi is not what you would call “subtle.” While Donald Trump was preparing to head off to Britain for a state visit, Bondi was busy trying to import one of that country’s worst ideas: the notion that “hate speech” is a real category of crime. It’s part of the administration’s move in…
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“We simply cannot accept any capitulation to Donald Trump’s attacks on our fundamental freedoms,” the Democratic nominee said.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un said he has fond memories of President Trump and suggested he would be open to resuming talks if the U.S. dropped its long-standing demand for denuclearization as a precondition to diplomacy. Speaking to the Supreme People’s Assembly on Sunday, Kim made clear he would never surrender his nuclear weapons program.…
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CNN’s prominent Trump supporter was asked to respond to the president’s remark about hate at Charlie Kirk’s funeral.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged deadly drone strikes ahead of the United Nations General Assembly kicking off in New York this week. “Rescue efforts and rubble clearing continue after the Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia — guided aerial bombs targeted civilian infrastructure, ordinary homes. Fifteen apartment buildings and ten private houses have been damaged,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
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Donald Trump’s White House teased mock-up photos of the UFC fight.
Charlie Kirk was remembered in a VIP-studded memorial service on Sunday in Glendale, Ariz. President Trump, Erika Kirk and several high-level Trump administration officials offered their remembrances of the conservative pundit at the hours-long event. Kirk, 31, was assassinated on Sept. 10 in Orem, Utah. “He’s a martyr now for America’s freedom,” Trump said in…
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A recent Wall Street Journal-NORC poll contained some disturbing data about public attitudes toward the American dream. Forty-six percent of respondents answered the American dream once was true but not anymore; 23 percent said it never was true. This 70 percent who think the American dream is dead is the highest in nearly 15 years of surveys. And that pessimism knew no demographic…
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Technology company Oracle will provide security for the new TikTok entity in the United States, following the President Trump-backed deal to allow the social media company to keep operating in the U.S. The proposal will “allow Oracle, as the security provider for this new entity, to inspect it, to study how it behaves and see…
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