The Sad, Sad Life of Tom Wambsgans
After living to serve, the most pathetic character on ‘Succession’ finally finds himself on the outs.
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Don’t Try to Board a Plane With Peanut Butter
Sticky and solid as it may seem, the spread is technically a liquid.
The under-the-radar issues that could shake up 2024
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
US economy grew at weak 1.1% rate in Q1 in sign of slowdown
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
Elizabeth Warren: Fed chair has failed at both his jobs
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
Freedom to Learn: Nat’l Day of Action Targets Ron DeSantis, “Anti-Woke Cabal” over Book Bans & More
This week, protests were held across the United States against right-wing efforts to ban books and antiracism education in schools.
In E. Jean Carroll’s “Heroic” Rape Trial Against Trump, His Team Calls No Witnesses. Will He Testify?
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team rested its case Thursday in the rape, battery and defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll without calling a single witness. Carroll has accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s. Carroll was able to file the case against Trump decades later because New York opened a one-year window on the statute of limitations for adult survivors of sexual assault.
Guilty: Four Proud Boys Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy for Role in Jan. 6 Insurrection
Four members of the far-right Proud Boys organization, including former leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted Thursday of seditious conspiracy for trying to keep Donald Trump in office by force after his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden. The men could face decades in prison for their actions. A fifth defendant was found not guilty of seditious conspiracy but convicted on other charges. We look at the Proud Boys, their role in the January 6 attack on the U.S.
Greenpeace USA Wins Free Speech Battle Against Canadian Logging Giant’s $100M SLAPP Lawsuit
A judge in California has dismissed a seven-year $100 million lawsuit against Greenpeace USA that threatened the group’s existence. Canadian logging giant Resolute Forest Products sued Greenpeace in the United States and Canada for defamation after the group exposed the company’s irresponsible practices, part of a pattern of corporations attempting to use the burdens of the legal process to intimidate, exhaust and censor activists.
Mehdi Hasan Torches Republicans By Naming The Only Thing They Really Stand For
The MSNBC host puts the GOP on blast: “They’re lying to you.
Gavin Newsom Points Out Greg Abbott’s Brutal Self-Own On Gun Violence
The Texas governor, in a Sunday interview on Fox News, ripped gun violence in California as he remarked on the state’s “very tough gun laws.
Trump Fails To Make Deadline To Testify In Rape Trial
Trump has not shown up once during the two-week Manhattan trial where writer E. Jean Carroll testified for several days.
‘No Good Options’ If Congress Fails To Act On Debt, Yellen Says
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. risks an economic “calamity” if Congress fails to raise the nation’s debt limit.
Biden Calls Out Republicans’ ‘Thoughts And Prayers’ In Latest Gun Control Plea
“Republican Members of Congress cannot continue to meet this epidemic with a shrug,” Biden said after a gunman killed eight people in Texas.
12-week abortion ban will do great harm, North Carolina’s governor says
Gov. Roy Cooper has vowed to override the veto, but his veto could be overriden.
CDC head resigns, blindsiding many health officials
Rochelle Walensky acknowledged the agency did not meet expectations during the pandemic and launched a reorganization.
The job crunch hits the White House as Biden searches for a new pandemic czar
“They approached everyone.
DeSantis courts evangelicals with strict abortion law; opponents counterpunch in his backyard
A multi-million-dollar initiative would roll back one of DeSantis’ signature policies by allowing abortion until a fetus is viable at about 24 weeks of pregnancy.
For Black Americans, the pandemic spike in fentanyl deaths was decades in the making
A new CDC report shows that more Black Americans died from fentanyl overdoses than from any other drug in 2021 and at far higher rates than whites or Hispanics.
King Charles’s Absurd, Awe-Inspiring Coronation
Where does Britain keep all these horses and bishops the rest of the time?
Northern Ireland’s Troubled Peace
As the world celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, a Belfast family instead grieved.
The under-the-radar issues that could shake up 2024
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
US economy grew at weak 1.1% rate in Q1 in sign of slowdown
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
Elizabeth Warren: Fed chair has failed at both his jobs
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
Freedom to Learn: Nat’l Day of Action Targets Ron DeSantis, “Anti-Woke Cabal” over Book Bans & More
This week, protests were held across the United States against right-wing efforts to ban books and antiracism education in schools.