Report: Matt Gaetz Told Roger Stone ‘Big Guy’ Would Likely Get Him Off
The recording of the men’s conversation was captured by a microphone Stone was wearing for a film crew making an upcoming documentary.
The recording of the men’s conversation was captured by a microphone Stone was wearing for a film crew making an upcoming documentary.
Olivia Troye, who quit the administration in 2020, appeared to call out the same Trump official now embroiled in the Secret Service text-deletion scandal.
“Rebound” cases affect a “small minority of folks,” the president said.
The Justice Department has faced criticism over its handling of the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The gloating was particularly hard to take after Republicans blocked medical help for vets, many of whom are suffering from cancer.
“It was killing me not to be there, but I was advising indirectly from my condo,” Manafort reportedly writes in his upcoming book.
Activists fear the Republican’s step is the latest in an all-out war on drag shows and trans people.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) is expected to sign the ban into law soon. Indiana’s ban is expected to quickly pass through the GOP-controlled legislature.
That’s when Trump’s son-in-law and adviser realized he was “woefully unprepared” to deal with the volatile White House strategist.
The first case of monkeypox behind bars was reported in Chicago this week, and health experts are warning that jails could accelerate the spread as they are dangerously unprepared to combat against a virus that spreads through close physical contact. We speak with Dr. Homer Venters, the former chief medical officer for New York City’s Correctional Health Services, whose new op-ed for The Hill is headlined ”CDC must act to prevent monkeypox explosion in prisons.
As tens of millions of people in the United States live under heat alerts this summer, we look at conditions faced by those in prisons and jails with poor cooling systems and lack of access to running water. “Although heat has been an ongoing issue in Texas, this year it’s exacerbated by a staffing crisis that’s been years in the making,” says Keri Blakinger, the first formerly incarcerated reporter for The Marshall Project.
Before a deal emerged this week on a bill to address the climate emergency, six congressional staffers were arrested Monday on Capitol Hill as they held a nonviolent civil disobedience protest inside the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, urging him to reopen negotiations on the bill. We speak with Saul Levin, one of the staffers who was arrested, and discuss the role the action had in pushing the bill forward.
President Biden is hailing a Senate bill negotiated by Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer as “the most significant legislation in history to tackle the climate crisis.” While it faces hurdles before passage, the so-called Inflation Reduction Act would invest $369 billion into renewable energy and other measures to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
As the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) invests millions in Democratic primaries to defeat progressives who support Palestine, we speak to one of the candidates: Michigan Congressmember Andy Levin, whose primary is on Tuesday. He is a self-described Zionist who supports a two-state solution, but earlier this year a former president of AIPAC described him as “arguably the most corrosive member of Congress to the U.S.-Israel relationship.
The measure would give EV buyers a $7,500 tax credit starting next year, through the end of 2032. There’s also a new $4,000 credit for those buying used EVs.
GOP senators are so mad about a surprise Democratic deal on climate change that they may just drop their support for doing anything.
One person joked that he was pretty sure the Missouri Senator’s book would “fall well short of expectations.
Sen. Joe Manchin is “adamant” about fixing a tax break for wealthy investors, but fellow moderate Kyrsten Sinema had wanted to keep it untouched.
Alito joked that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “paid the price” for speaking out against the majority opinion that demolished U.S. abortion rights.
As next month marks one year since the United States officially withdrew from Afghanistan, we look at the Taliban-ruled country’s devastating economic and humanitarian crisis that has unfolded since. Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary describes the dire situation as “an epic failure by the Taliban as the de facto rulers in terms of not stopping their crackdown against the Afghan people” while they cope with flash floods, food shortages and more. He adds that the U.S.
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, many in Western countries are expressing their opposition to the war by becoming hostile to Russian culture. Nina Khrushcheva argues that Russian music, films, books and art are not the right targets for antiwar activism in her latest article, “Don’t Cancel Russian Culture.
We look at how the Russian war in Ukraine is impacting the Russian people, with many Russian dissidents who oppose the invasion choosing to flee abroad after facing violent crackdowns at home. Ilya Budraitskis is a Russian historian and political writer who left his home in Moscow after the war in Ukraine began, and recently launched the media outlet Posle.
We speak to Oksana Dutchak, a Ukrainian feminist and co-editor of the leftist journal Spilne, who fled to Germany because of the “inability to live under the constant pressure of fear” as Russian invaded. She says Western leftists and feminists who have misgivings about Western military support for Ukraine often overlook that Ukrainians are fighting for self-determination and against imperialism.
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives have introduced the Puerto Rico Status Act, which would allow residents of the longtime U.S. colony to begin the process of self-determination and decide on the island’s territorial status. The bill sets up three options for residents to choose from in a referendum — U.S. statehood, independence or sovereignty in free association with the United States — and commits Congress to abide by the results.
A new report highlights the impact of two pandemic-related initiatives — and suggests what will happen if lawmakers let them lapse.
The Kentucky Republican said the Senate wouldn’t pass a computer chip bill if Democrats pursued budget reconciliation, but it did and they are.
The former vice president got 17 minutes of airtime while giving a speech the same day as Trump, who was appearing a mile away.
“They should be like, ‘Are you a toxic male? Please sign up,’” the Georgia Republican said.
The tolls aren’t expected to be implemented until late next year at the earliest.
We speak with Marxist economist Richard Wolff about how experts forecast another economic recession in the United States, with inflation at a historic high and a federal minimum wage that hasn’t changed for 13 years.