WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding his colleagues across the aisle apologize to former special counsel Jack Smith after Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt launched false accusations at a recent hearing and called the former Justice Department official a “...

New press secretary Katie Zacharia had a rough start at the White House this week as she landed in a small corner office while President Donald Trump’s enforcer kept the large office press secretaries traditionally use.Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, is “the current occupant ...

New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia got off on the wrong foot with White House briefing room reporters who are strongly aligned with Donald Trump’s administration.That is according to MS NOW’s Vaughn Hillyard, who reported that Zacharia’s decision to take only three questions before fleei...

The United States was one of just three nations to vote against a declaration on “pandemic prevention, preparedness and response” that was adopted by the United Nations, drawing alarm from public health advocates.“They are going to kill us,” advocate Laura Miers, best known for her commentary on COV...

President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, opened up a new line of questions with an unexpected answer when asked where she had passed the bar exam.Trump has described Zacharia as “an attorney,” and she has repeatedly done the same on national TV. But a new investigation by Popula...

Vice President JD Vance sparked a wave of backlash Tuesday after appearing to use being gay as a punchline in a joke about Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.Speaking at a campaign event in Tyler, Texas, for Ken Paxton, Vance responded to someone in the crowd who shouted that they love...

On a floor above one of the world’s most famous hotel lobbies — where the elite of fashion and finance are annually styled for the Met Gala’s red carpet — there's a salon run by a man Jeffrey Epstein's survivors accused of grooming them.The Mark on New York City's ultra-exclusive Madison Avenue — ju...

Two hours after Kimberly Guilfoyle was effectively fired as U.S. Ambassador to Greece, President Donald Trump told reporters on live TV that she had never been part of his family, the Daily Beast reported.Asked about her downfall as he left the White House for Alaska on Tuesday, Trump downplayed the...

President Donald Trump heaped praise on Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) on Tuesday, sharing a lengthy story about the lawmaker’s college football career that apparently came as a surprise to the president.In a ringing endorsement on his Truth Social platform, Trump recounted a conversation with former NFL co...

A federal judge ordered an additional two-week ban on cutting trees at a Washington golf course after President Donald Trump’s administration cut down hundreds despite her warnings.U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes granted a temporary restraining order on Tuesday barring the government from felling a...

A newly announced Trump administration appointment sparked a wave of bewilderment Tuesday after an official portrait of the incoming U.S. ambassador tasked with combating human trafficking circulated on social media.Barbera H. Thornhill was introduced as the U.S. ambassador-at-large to monitor and c...

Complaints about new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia after her first nationally televised press conference were not limited to critics of the Donald Trump administration.MAGA fans were not pleased in the least, with many hoping it was just “nerves.”Promoting a stream of the press conferen...

For the second time in three days, the White House is blaming the press for the empty seats at a Trump rally.The White House’s Rapid Response 47 account hit back at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after she aired footage of bare upper sections at President Donald Trump’s Monday night rally in Youngstown, Ohio...

President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, earned brutally bad reviews Tuesday on her first day on the job.Zacharia read from a statement touting the president’s accomplishments and popularity, then took only a handful of questions before leaving the press room. She did make news,...

On a floor above one of the world’s most famous hotel lobbies — where the elite of fashion and finance are annually styled for the Met Gala’s red carpet — there's a salon run by a man Jeffrey Epstein's survivors accused of grooming them.The Mark on New York City's ultra-exclusive Madison Avenue — ju...

Conservative journalist Carmine Sabia issued an apology Tuesday for promoting a false report about Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico, prompting critics to suspect Sabia had only apologized to avoid legal liability.Over the weekend, MAGA world went into a frenzy over an allegation that Talaric...

President Donald Trump reportedly “overrode” the wishes of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in picking a new press secretary, according to the Daily Mail and The Daily Beast.Trump announced the pick, conservative personality Katie Zacharia, 41, on Truth Social on Friday. She will replace Karol...

One high-profile White House official may need to start looking for a new job with the arrival of new press secretary Katie Zacharia.According to the Daily Mail, the press secretary hire has put one official’s “head on the chopping block” and stoked fears of a post-midterm purge among uncomfortable ...

U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle lavished praise on President Donald Trump after his White House asked her to resign.Guilfoyle’s praise came in a lengthy statement she posted on X Tuesday, the same day White House press secretary Katie Zacharia announced the request at her debut briefing...

Throughout his life of public vulgarity, chauvinistic misogynist and sexual abuser Donald Trump has always been unusually — and often inappropriately — fixated on beautiful blonde women. Trump cheated on his first blonde wife, Ivana, with his second blonde wife, Marla, then cheated on his third (na...

President Donald Trump posted a fabricated quote attributed to Denzel Washington on his Truth Social account Monday, spreading a fake endorsement that fact-checkers had publicly debunked two days earlier.The image Trump posted was a screenshot from an X account called Red Eagle Updates. Under the wo...

The debut of new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia was cut off early by MS NOW, with the panel dumbfounded at her staring at her notes and fumbled her way through with fragmented sentences.After the cutaway, MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle smirked and stated, “Let's look at the way that just st...

President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, dropped some major news at her inaugural news conference.Zacharia took questions in the White House press room Tuesday morning and was asked whether Kimberly Guilfoyle would be asked to resign as U.S. ambassador to Greece.“We have asked A...

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife is collecting a salary from a religious nonprofit that ministers to young congressional staffers, but she won’t say who's bankrolling it.Kelly Johnson, a faith-based counselor, refocused her Louisiana nonprofit, Onward Christian Education Services, on Washington aft...

Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney revealed two pressing reasons that Elon Musk is pouring record sums into the midterms for two reasons.Musk is on track to be the top Republican donor this cycle, spending at least $276 million on the midterms since July, much of it on the closely watched Texas Senat...

Fears mounted Tuesday following an emergency order issued by the Trump administration designed “to mitigate blackout risks” ahead of a “period of elevated demand,” an order that impacts more than a dozen states in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.“Nothing to see here, just [an] energy cr...

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Monday aired humiliating footage of pervasive empty seats at President Donald Trump’s rally in Youngstown, Ohio, one week after Trump insisted he has never had an empty seat and never will.Collins, hosting “The Source,” showed video from CNN’s crew inside the Covelli Centre ...

Republicans on Capitol Hill are worried that some of their own members won’t bother returning to work after the November midterms, according to Politico.Lawmakers will come back to a long to-do list and, Politico reported, a mere 24 legislative days to get anything done.“The question becomes: Who sh...

President Donald Trump went back to Ohio to rally support for Republicans in the Rust Belt, where entire sections of a hockey arena sat mostly empty, and some of the voters who helped power his rise say they’ve stopped buying what he’s selling.The Washington Post reported that the upper levels of Yo...

Disgraced former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem took a jab at a Texas-born country music star for campaigning with the Democratic Senate candidate — and got decimated by a blunt one-liner.Kacey Musgraves shared a stage briefly with Texas state lawmaker and Presbyterian seminarian James T...

If you're reading this, you've noticed something different about Raw Story today.We have a new look.A completely redesigned website went live early this morning. It's cleaner and easier to navigate, and it's built to put our journalism front and center.But the most important changes at Raw Story are...

Something stinks.Astoria is one of my favorites on the Oregon coast, a small town of around 9,000 people with great restaurants and craft shops. Two of them, a coffee shop and ceramics studio, are owned by a small businessperson, Audrey Long, who’s mailed herself five postcards since August to test ...

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow dismantled a GOP senator's excuses for stiffing a baker out of nearly $700. Recent reporting shows that Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), stiffed a local bakery, Holly's Sweet Treats in Hutchinson, of a nearly $700 bill for custom campaign cookies he ordered in 2020. That seemed li...

President Donald Trump's rally for Ohio Sen. Jon Husted went off the rails when he made a seemingly lustful comment about the senator's body."I don't do this with men very often," Trump told the crowd. "I started examining his body because I didn't know he was a great athlete. And I looked and I wat...

Veteran political journalist Jim Acosta said Monday that President Donald Trump has revealed a "25th Amendment crisis" on the country's hands as he stumps for Republicans in formerly safe districts. Acosta joined former Republican lawyer George Conway on the debut episode of his podcast, "Psycho Pol...

Some political analysts were disgusted on Monday night after President Donald Trump dished out a backhanded compliment to a rising MAGA darling. Trump held a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday to stump for Republicans like Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) and gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. During ...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) received an embarrassing fact-check during a local congressional debate Monday night. Boebert faced off against Democratic challenger Eileen Laubacher in a debate ahead of the midterm election for the Colorado 4th Congressional District seat. During the event, Boebert was ...

President Donald Trump lashed out at a protester who disrupted his rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday, calling the person a "paid protester" and "scum."Trump traveled to Ohio to stump for Republicans such as Sen. John Husted (R-OH) and gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Embattled GOP lawmake...

MS NOW's Alicia Menendez offered a brutal supercut of Latino voters in Texas, gearing up to punish President Donald Trump at the ballot box.The showcase came during a discussion with Victor Martinez, owner of LA MEGA 101.7, about similar levels of discontent unfolding in Pennsylvania."Here in the Le...

President Donald Trump astounded analysts on Monday after he uttered what some described as an "exceptionally stupid" claim about Russia's war against Ukraine. Trump was asked about his recently announced energy "ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine while speaking with reporters outside the White H...

A political analyst spotted one issue that could crush the Democrats if they retake control of Congress after the midterms. Some Democrats have stated publicly that they plan to impeach President Donald Trump, and possibly other cabinet members, on the first day that they retake power in the House o...

A former Trump campaign staffer's claim that Senate nominee James Talarico (D-TX) was in an Ohio psychiatric hospital unraveled as audio surfaced of the MAGA operative contradicting his own denials about conservative outlets declining the story over legal concerns.Rhein Amacher, who says he worked o...

A federal judge ended a hearing Monday regretting that she could not yet punish President Donald Trump’s officials, saying the government “can’t be trusted” after it cut hundreds of trees despite ongoing court proceedings.U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes spoke as she closed an emergency hearing on t...

Federal investigators have horrified civil liberties experts by obtaining previously unreported warrants to use controversial surveillance tech on a college student, according to a new report.Law enforcement agents earlier this year obtained permission to use cell-site simulators to track down Jerom...

A recent report from the New York Times sheds new light on the speedy marriage between a Turkish billionaire and one of President Donald Trump's former lawyers. Alina Habba, a former U.S. attorney in the Trump administration, and 29-year-old Turkish businessman Turhan Mildon married last month after...

Missouri is headed toward a potentially painful budget reckoning as state spending continues to outpace revenue growth.The two candidates for state auditor agree that should be a major concern for the office. They disagree over what the auditor can — and should — do about it.Republican incumbent Sco...

Katie Miller, the podcaster married to White House adviser Stephen Miller, deleted a post celebrating Monday’s federal search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home, but not before social media captured it and suggested it could come back to haunt her.“Promise made, promise kept,” Miller wrote on X in reply to a...

Patrick De Haan, an oil industry expert who runs Gas Buddy, had an ominous message for people in the Midwest: prepare to pay more at the pump — just before the election begins."We've got the hallmark of a refinery issue in the Great Lakes — looking to discover what's cooking, but for now, wholesale ...