CNN panelists piled on to a conservative commentator who defended a Republican senator's failed ambush of former special counsel Jack Smith.Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) attempted to link Smith to a conspiracy to take down Donald Trump with a Georgia prosecutor by placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game in ...

President Donald Trump’s months-long fixation on rebranding the term artificial intelligence (AI) may be a cover for something far more sinister, according to a theory floated Tuesday by journalist and professor Adam Cochran.“I always thought it should be ‘SI’ — supreme intelligence, but I guess som...

A network of Florida Republicans with links to hate groups and the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally is mobilizing to seat members on local government boards and run for elected office in the Sunshine State and beyond.Members of American Restoration Coalition, or ARC, who count among their ranks a ...

The editorial board of Missouri's largest newspaper joined the pile-on after Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) embarrassed himself during his interrogation of former special counsel Jack Smith on national TV.Schmitt, who previously didn't have much of a national profile, accused Smith of perjury while going ...

Previously obscure Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. may be headed back to a career as a backbencher after his humiliation during an interrogation of former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday.That was the opinion of House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who could barely disguise hi...

Texas Attorney General and GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton privately badmouthed President Donald Trump’s midterm convention, audio recorded at a private fundraiser and obtained by The New York Times revealed on Wednesday.“This is more manipulated nonsense from The New York Times to create a story th...

Republicans are turning to an insult Democrats used against them two years ago as their midterm chances droop.MS NOW reported that top Republicans have started slurring rivals as "weird," which Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz deployed in July 2024 against Donald Trump, JD Vance and other Republicans. Sen. T...

Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, is urging the administration to pull back on its immigration sweeps. He says ICE is removing people who have been part of their communities for years."Before you know it, you get people that get carried away in their job and what...

President Donald Trump's gait and stance during his high-profile appearance with tech industry titans drew raised eyebrows late Tuesday.The 80-year-old president spoke with reporters after a luncheon with tech executives, including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Greg Brockma...

U.S. allies Israel and Saudi Arabia scrambled jets early Wednesday morning in response to an incident aboard a FlyDubai flight that Israeli journalist Amit Segal reported was being treated as a “full-fledged terrorist attack.”“It appears that the co-pilot repeatedly stabbed the captain. Once the att...

With the war on Iran in its seventh month and no end in sight, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is demanding another purge of high-ranking officers at the Pentagon, according to reports.Hegseth will announce plans to cut by 20 percent the number of positions reserved for generals and admirals during a...

President Donald Trump took control of the Kennedy Center 19 months ago. Since then, the center has used up nearly every financial cushion it had, and one arts management expert says it now appears to be "in free fall."The Washington Post reviewed confidential board documents and tax filings that sh...

The Trump White House stopped a cleared Homeland Security order weeks before the midterms, catching some inside the department by surprise.The Department of Homeland Security had approved a notice this month ending temporary protected status for roughly 200,000 Salvadorans before the White House int...

Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton ripped his own party for bringing former special counsel Jack Smith to Capitol Hill weeks before the midterms.Singleton, appearing on CNN alongside Democratic strategist Paul Begala, didn't mince words when host Kaitlan Collins asked what went through his ...

Jeffrey Epstein refused to release his photos of President Donald Trump with young women at his home because he feared for his own life, an author claims.Trump biographer Michael Wolff made the claim on Tuesday's episode of "Inside Trump's Head," where he and co-host Joanna Coles went back over a co...

The silence from Texas GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton about a Fox News debate offer exposes that he's gripped by fear, according to an analyst.In a Tuesday episode on his YouTube channel, progressive political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen made the case after a Fox News spokesperson told HuffPost the...

A Justice Department lawyer dared a federal judge to rule against the Trump administration rather than give the court advance notice.Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias flagged the exchange in a Tuesday livestream, saying it was "urgent enough that it deserved the alert" his viewers received. The li...

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) landed in a humiliating national spotlight Tuesday after falsely accusing former special counsel Jack Smith of lying about attending an Atlanta Hawks game, when he was actually at an Iowa Hawkeyes away game in Maryland.But even more embarrassing, MS NOW's Jen Psaki noted tha...

CNN’s Erin Burnett tore into Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) on Tuesday after his attempted “gotcha moment” of former special counsel Jack Smith backfired spectacularly during a Senate hearing.Schmitt accused Smith of lying about whether he attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024, suggesting the tr...

The top U.S. general in Latin America and the Caribbean says land strikes against drug cartels are on the table.Gen. Francis Donovan, the Marine four-star who leads U.S. Southern Command, made the remarks in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that was featured in a Tuesday article. His commen...

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) found himself humiliated on Tuesday at the hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith, when he tried to corner Smith in supposed "perjury" that he hadn't been in Atlanta by providing texts of him being at a "Hawks" basketball game, when in fact he had been at an Iowa Haw...

Federal appeals judges signaled that criminal contempt charges could reach beyond former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whom one judge called a possible "sacrificial lamb."Ten of the 11 active judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard nearly three hours...

Republican lawmakers and administration officials stood up evangelical conservatives, a key Trump voting bloc increasingly frustrated with the GOP.Members of the House and Senate, along with at least one Cabinet official, were confirmed as speakers in the months leading up to the Family Research Cou...

A federal appeals panel that includes one of President Donald Trump's own judicial picks refused to lift penalties imposed over the president's anti-weaponization fund.A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the request for a stay Tuesday in an order issued "by the court...

President Donald Trump shouted down a reporter he identified as being from CNN after the journalist challenged his claim that artificial intelligence companies can police themselves.The clash came Tuesday as Trump took questions outside the White House with tech leaders standing behind him, NBC News...

A new Michigan focus group of 2024 Trump voters who now disapprove of his job performance reveals a surprising pattern: several are drifting toward Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and their reasoning echoes the same distrust of political insiders that once drew them to Trump himself.The ...

Critics accused the Supreme Court of "rubber stamping death sentences" after it let President Donald Trump resume sending immigrants to countries that are not their own.On Tuesday, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling in favor of what are called third-country deportations, which critics worry will...

President Donald Trump called for “tremendous self-regulation” of artificial intelligence Tuesday as tech leaders and lawmakers sound alarms about the potentially catastrophic risks posed by the advancing technology.Trump made the remarks after meeting with some of the industry’s most high-profile e...

The Department of Homeland Security put out a highly charged social media post in response to reports of a migrant caravan approaching the U.S. The post said "our time has come," accompanied by video of a dramatic sports roll of Brian Dawkins of the Philadelphia Eagles.The post was swiftly met with ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that increasingly unpopular data centers will make communities “very, very happy” — and critics online quickly mocked the prediction as “out of touch.”Trump made the remarks following a White House summit with some of the country’s most high-profile tech leaders, ...

Two very different demos have recently risen to social media prominence: GenX women and our polar opposites, the MAGA Trad Wives. The starkly opposed messaging is making a real case for the “nurture” part of the “nature vs. nurture” argument during a time when women’s rights are constantly in flux. ...

Former special counsel Jack Smith's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee left a GOP senator with a look that set off howls of online laughter.On Tuesday, Smith appeared before the committee to defend his two criminal probes into President Donald Trump, and several Republicans suggested Smit...

Fox News host Sean Hannity sparked fury Tuesday after he deleted a controversial post on his social media account. Hannity posted a clip from an exchange between former special counsel Jack Smith and Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) from a hearing held Tuesday. In the clip, Schmitt accuses Smith of attendin...

A startling claim from President Donald Trump's ambassador to China reveals "something profoundly amiss" in how the administration handles one of America's most consequential rivalries, according to a new analysis by MS NOW's Zeeshan Aleem.Ambassador David Perdue told Fox News on Sunday that Trump, ...

A constitutional law expert accused Attorney General Todd Blanche of using national security as a “smokescreen” to defend President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban three news organizations from the White House.Georgetown University constitutional law professor Michele Goodwin told CNN’s Kasie Hunt on ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume deporting immigrants to countries other their own, including those with human rights abuse allegations.According to multiple reports, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to restart what are also known as third-cou...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) lashed out Tuesday at journalists questioning her support for her former Democratic primary rival James Talarico — but still stopped short of offering a fresh endorsement of the party’s Senate nominee in the angry post.“Y’all are corny! I keep receipts,” Crockett wrote o...

President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023.Trump agreed to dismiss his appeal "with prejudice," meaning he can never bring it again, according to a Sept. 25 order from the U.S. Court of Appeals ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) drew an immediate rebuke from a Democratic colleague after he repeatedly shouted over former special counsel Jack Smith.The clash came Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where Smith was the only witness. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who spoke after Cruz, accused Republi...

The White House boasted about 1,750 jobs that would be created from a new $15 billion steel plant announced by President Donald Trump, but several right-wing figures expressed outrage Tuesday as details about the project began to emerge.The steel mill will be constructed by Mesabi Metallics, a Minne...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was hounded by reporters Tuesday after his “gotcha” moment targeting former special counsel Jack Smith fell apart in a Senate hearing — and responded by accusing Smith of being a liar.Smith was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his inv...

Roughly an hour after his attack on former special counsel Jack Smith collapsed during a Senate hearing Tuesday, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) found a friendlier audience on "The Charlie Kirk Show," where the host praised him for the very accusation that had just blown up in his face.Smith was testifying...

Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) got more than she bargained for while questioning former special counsel Jack Smith.The South Carolina Republican pressed the former Department of Justice appointee to explain the search warrants his team executed to obtain phone call logs for her brother, the late Sen. Li...

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who is running for governor of Arizona, took donations from leaders of an accused anti-LGBTQ+ hate group for which he formerly served as a board member, according to recent state election filings.The Biggs for Arizona campaign took in $3,000 on April 15 from Sharon Slater, pr...

An accusatory attack on former special counsel Jack Smith by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) crashed and burned within moments Tuesday — and Politico was quick to troll the grandstanding Republican for it.Schmitt's attempt to paint the career prosecutor as a "perjurer" instead outed him as no more than a f...

A Republican senator's bellyflop dominated discussion of former special counsel Jack Smith's congressional testimony.Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) questioned Smith about whether he had attended an Atlanta Hawks-Golden State Warriors game in Georgia the day after an affair was revealed between Fulton Coun...

CNN legal expert Ryan Goodman said Monday that federal law “could not be clearer” when it comes to President Donald Trump using taxpayer dollars for campaign-style advertisements promoting himself weeks before the crucial midterm elections.CNN’s Erin Burnett asked Goodman, an NYU law professor and f...

A MAGA crowd at a campaign event for Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) heckled his running mate, Bryan Avila, as he opened his speech in Spanish — with one man ordering him to speak English.The heckling broke out Monday during Avila's remarks at a campaign stop in Kissimmee, Florida.Donalds, the Republican ...

President Donald Trump rolled out his new AI-powered federal website, America.gov, Tuesday with a security guarantee — that he promptly admitted wasn't true.Trump unveiled the site at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington alongside Elon Musk, administration officials and tech industry leader...