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Senate Republicans on the Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday in favor of former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s nomination to serve as permanent U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia.

But they did so without any Democrats present on the committee, as they staged a walkout as Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-ia) moved to vote on a slate of judicial appointments. Democrats primarily focused on the nomination of Emil Bove, who represented Trump in his New York criminal case and later served as acting deputy attorney general, to serve as an appellate judge.

Trump appointed Pirro to serve as acting U.S. attorney in May, the latest Fox News figure to get a spot in his administration. She was a strident defender of the president on Fox News’ The Five, which is the top-rated show on cable news.

“Jeanine is incredibly well qualified for this position, and is considered...

Tonight (Sunday July 13 2025), CBS broadcasts an episode of the series Face the Nation!

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.); Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.); Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-s.C.); Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

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Tonight (Sunday June 22 2025), ABC broadcasts an episode of the series This Week With George Stephanopoulos!

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-s.C.); Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-n.Y.); Dr. Fiona Havers, infectious disease expert; Supreme Court panel discussion with Devin Dwyer and Sarah Isgur; roundtable discussion with Ramesh Ponnuru, Marianna Sotomayor and Faiz Shakir.

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As President Donald Trump weighs sending U.S. forces to help Israel bomb Iran — and potentially plunge the nation into a new war — his decision is being influenced by bellicose on-air content at Fox News. The favored network of the president has put forth a parade of hosts, guests, and professional commentators with an effusively pro-war and pro-regime change message.

According to an administration official and another close associate of the commander-in-chief, Trump’s heavy consumption of Fox News content is increasing his appetite for direct military confrontation with Iran.

Tonight (Sunday June 15 2025), CBS broadcasts an episode of the series Face the Nation!

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.); Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-s.C.); Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

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Stephen A. Smith has become the latest target of “The Daily Show,” with the late night program releasing a new biofilm mocking the sports television personality for his various on-air takes.

The nearly 7-minute video, titled “Stephen A. Smith: Greatest of All Take-Havers,” starts with a look at his childhood, with Smith saying he was born in the Bronx and raised in Queens with the “greatest mom in the world.”

“That’s right, every other mom in the world is a scrub. I don’t care if your mother, Theresa, or that hot mom from The Brady Bunch,” Craig Kilborn says in a voice narration. “Those moms should be riding the bench behind Janet Smith.”

It proceeds to jump forward Smith’s enrollment at the Fashion Institute of Technology, which Kilborn said “might not have greatest tradition of sports” but “definitely had a playoff.”

“It was primarily a girls school,...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-n.Y.) is reintroducing her bill to provide civil recourse for survivors of nonconsensual sexually-explicit deepfakes.

Ocasio-Cortez is co-leading the bicameral bill with Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-s.C.). The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (Defiance) Act was originally introduced last year and unanimously passed the Senate but did not make it to a vote at the House of Representatives. The bipartisan legislation currently has nine co-sponsors and will be reintroduced today in both the Senate and House.

Donald Trump, who was raised Presbyterian and does not attend church regularly, would apparently like to crown himself the next pope.

Late Friday, the president posted an AI image of himself sitting on a gold throne wearing the traditional attire including a white cassock and a cross necklace. He has a serious expression and is holding up a finger. The White House shared Trump’s AI portrait on social media as well.

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The leading podcast studio and publisher Wondery announced today a new multi-year deal with podcast producer and host Lindsay Graham and his company Airship. Wondery and Graham have together created two of the most successful history podcasts, American History Tellers and American Scandal, and will now extend that relationship. As part of the new deal, Wondery will also have a first-look at new podcast series created by Graham and his company.

Graham will also contribute to the development, programming and promotion of Wondery’s extension of the History Tellers brand through books, live events, and other offerings. In 2024, HarperCollins published American History Tellers Presents: The Hidden History of the White House.

Lindsay Graham’s American History Tellers, along with his other productions including American Scandal and Business Movers, have been among the top-rated, most listened-to podcasts in their categories, and have been nominated for multiple Ambies. American History Tellers premiered...

Tonight (Sunday March 16 2025), CBS broadcasts an episode of the series Face the Nation!

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Howard Lutnick, secretary of commerce; Gov. Wes Moore (D-Md.); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-s.C.); Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.).

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Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. president Donald Trump on Friday, and was promptly screamed at by Trump and Vice President Jd Vance. According to “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg, it was “one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen.”

Among other things, Zelenskyy was yelled at for apparently not being grateful enough for U.S. support in the war waged against Ukraine by Russia, despite the fact that Zelenskyy has repeatedly thanked the U.S. very publicly. Eventually, Trump told Zelenskyy that “You’re gambling with World War III.”

“That has to be one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen,” Whoopi said angrily after watching the clip on Monday. “This is the leader of a sovereign nation, and you are doing theater with him because you’re trying to show that you’re the hard guy.”

“But I don’t think...

Update, with video: Calling last week’s Trump-Zelensky-Vance Oval Office showdown “one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen,” The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg made no secret of which side she’s on.

“I do stand with you, Zelensky, because you’ve been fighting, your country has been fighting,” Goldberg said on today’s View, adding, I stand with y’all, because many countries in our world have a habit of going in and invading other countries. And we all have said, for the past at least 100 years, we don’t like that. We don’t want to do that. We don’t want to be that. And here we are. Who are we?”

Goldberg added that she thought the Oval Office meeting, in which Trump and Vance effectively switched sides from supporting Ukraine to supporting Russia, was “chilling.”

The View‘s other cohosts also weighed in,...

It’ll be debated for some time whether Donald Trump’s confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was spontaneous or a pre-planned ambush, but by the end of the 15-minute exchange Friday, Trump relished how it would all play: “This is going to be great television.”

The idea that Trump has created a reality TV presidency is well-worn, but the reaction to the shout-fest, that it signals a breakdown in U.S.-Ukrainian relations and perhaps Western alliances, is hardly trivial.

“Wow, just wow,” said CNN’s Dana Bash, after the network finished running video of the exchange, before going to the network’s chief White House correspondents and then foreign correspondents to talk about the implications.

Such reactions continued throughout the day as the story dominated cable news and social media.

Trump was supposed to meet with Zelensky today to put the finishing touches on a U.S. mineral rights deal with Ukraine,...

Not even Trump’s staffers are on board with the President’s plan for the U.S. to “take over” the Gaza Strip. “The Daily Show” host and senior correspondent Desi Lydic proved that by showing off a memorable reaction shot of Trump’s current Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles.

On Wednesday, Trump suggested that the Palestinian territory known as the Gaza Strip be redeveloped as a “Riviera of the Middle East” owned by America. Trump then said the territory’s residents would be “resettled” elsewhere. These statements have caused ripples of panic across the world as both sides in the war between Israel and Hamas just recently agreed to a temporary ceasefire in January.

While he has since walked back that plan, the temporary panic was still present in Trump’s own party.

“Even his Chief of Staff was shocked,” Lydic said on Wednesday night before flashing a picture of Wiles.

Tonight (Sunday January 19 2025), CBS broadcasts an episode of the series Face the Nation!

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This Sunday on Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan:

On inauguration eve, what is the first order of business for the new Trump administration? We talk with incoming national security adviser Mike Waltz. Plus, Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Kaine.

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In addition to ABC preempting “The View,” “GMA3: What You Need to Know” and “General Hospital,” CBS will also preempt its daytime lineup consisting of “The Price is Right,” “The Young and the Restless,” “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “Let’s Make a Deal” on Monday, January 20, due to special news coverage of the second inauguration President-elect Donald J. Trump.

Starting at 7:00 a.m. Et with a special edition of “CBS Mornings” anchored by Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson from Washington, D.C., CBS will deliver special all-day coverage of the presidential inauguration across all shows and platforms with Norah O’Donnell anchoring

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At 9:00 a.m. Et, CBS will air “CBS News: The Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump” anchored by Norah O’Donnell who will be joined by journalists John Dickerson, Maurice DuBois, Margaret Brennan, Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil, Nancy Cordes, Major Garrett, Robert Costa,...

Four years after attempting to overturn the results of the election, leading to a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump was certified as the winner of the 2024 presidential contest.

In a heavily fortified Capitol complex, a joint session of Congress gathered Monday to listen as the electoral vote results of each state were read off.

Presiding over the session was the president of the Senate, Vice President Kamala Harris, in the position of announcing the winner of an election that she lost. Harris kept a slight smile as she read off the tally, 312-226. Republicans cheered for Trump, and Democrats responded with a large ovation for her.

On CNN, Dana Bash noted the heavy security today, and that so many that backed Trump’s challenge of the 2020 results were still present and actually now in positions of leadership. They include Mike Johnson, who is now speaker of the House.

Sen. Lindsey Graham doesn’t seem eager to send his congressional colleagues to jail. The Republican senator publicly disagreed with President-elect Donald Trump’s statement that the members of the Jan. 6 committee who investigated him for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and attack the Capitol should be imprisoned.

“President-elect Trump told me he thinks the members of the January 6th Committee should go to jail. Do you agree with that statement?” moderator Kristen Welker asked Graham on Sunday’s episode of Meet the Press on NBC.

“No,” Graham said succinctly.

Within Donald Trump’s government-in-waiting, there is a fresh debate over whether and how thoroughly the president-elect should follow through on his campaign promise to attack or even invade Mexico, as part of the “war” he’s pledged to wage against powerful drug cartels.

“How much should we invade Mexico?” says a senior Trump transition member. “That is the question.”

It is a question that would have seemed batty for the GOP elite to consider before, even during Trump’s first term. But in the four years since, many within...

In the Season 22 finale of Real Time With Bill Maher, the host took aim at Donald Trump’s much-derided cabinet picks, even pausing at one point to laugh heartily as he implied that the jokes write themselves.

“Do I really have to write jokes for this?” Bill Maher said amid chuckles.

Beginning his last episode of the year, Maher started with an off-color joke referencing Trump’s Access Hollywood tape: “The Republicans, man, when they take power, they grab it by the pussy. They don’t f— around. They’re not even in charge yet, they just won the election. Already, big changes in the House. They elected the first transgender person in the House, so immediately the Republicans have now banned her from being able to go to the restroom. Yeah, thank God the adults are back in charge,” he sarcastically quipped.

He said, “Right away, Lindsey Graham volunteered to check for dicks.

Updated, with Gaetz resigning his congressional seat: Donald Trump has nominated Rep.. Matt Gaetz (R-fl) to serve as attorney general, a surprise pick that will please the president-elect’s Maga allies but may prove to be a flashpoint in the confirmation process.

There already are doubts that Gaetz will have the Senate votes, even with the Republicans set to control the chamber.

The selection of Gaetz, a key ally and partisan flamethrower, also is raising alarm among Democrats over the independence of the Justice Department, as Trump has vowed to enact retribution on political enemies.

More than anything, Gaetz has been in lockstep with Trump over his view of the DOJ.

Trump said in a statement, “Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan Weaponization of our Justice System. Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are weighing in on the Venu Sports lawsuit, which could wind up before the Supreme Court.

Things have been a little quiet on the Venu Sports front of late. The service is still being blocked from launching by a preliminary injunction thanks to an antitrust lawsuit brought by Fubo and issued by U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Garnett. Now lawmakers are beginning to take an interest in the case. Reporting from Puck News indicates that the Department of Justice, as well as several Republican congressmen, are taking sides in the case, which could wind up before the Supreme Court before all is said and done.

Key Details: The Department of Justice is preparing an amicus brief to support the injunction decision. Republican congressmen have already filed a brief backing Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery. Venu still hopes to launch sometime before...

The Ghost of John McCain is ready to cross over.

After making its world premiere this fall at New York’s SoHo Playhouse, tickets are available online for the Off-Broadway musical satire’s final show on Sunday, Oct. 13, concluding its run ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

“We are so grateful for the dozens of running mates, our remarkable cast and creative team, and everyone who put their heart and soul into creating this production which has provided a unique and theatrical window into a presidential year like no other,” said producers Jason Rose, Lynn Londen and Max Fose in a statement. “We are proud to have played our unconventional part in the political conversation. Thank you, and God bless Off-Broadway.”

Ghost of John McCain finds the late senator in the afterlife, which turns out to be inside Donald Trump’s brain. Accompanied by a “Greek Chorus” of iconic figures, including former Secretary Hillary Clinton,...

Saturday Night Live’s landmark 50th season will kick off nearly over a month ahead of the 2024 presidential election with plenty of material for its cold opens and other political skits.

With Maya Rudolph returning to portray Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris, its likely that James Austin Johnson will portray Donald Trump and or Joe Biden in parodies of the candidates. Doug Emhoff (who has been portrayed in the past by Martin Short) and Vice President Tim Walz will also likely receive parodies, though Short’s Only Murders in the Building costar Steve Martin has declined the ask to portray Walz.

The first five consecutive SNL shows’ hosts and musical guests have been announced, and given the volume and talent of cast members over the years, a look back at political parodies by hosts, guests and members of the comedy ensemble can be found below.

Will Ferrell as...

Former president and 2024 Republican nominee Donald Trump had a question.

Ever since CNN reported that North Carolina’s lieutenant governor Mark Robinson posted on a pornography website that he’s a “black Nazi” who supported re-legalizing slavery and dubbed civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. “Martin Lucifer Koon,” Trump and his campaign have tried to gently distance the ex-president from his staunchly MAGAfied ally, fearing Robinson’s extreme excesses could damage Trump himself.

In recent days, as the former president has discussed with aides and confidants what to do amid the Robinson fallout,...

Ghost of John McCain, the Off Broadway musical comedy that sent Meghan McCain into a summer-long pre-opening tizzy, has arrived after months of free publicity.

A modestly entertaining, fitfully clever political satire that takes place entirely within the frazzled head of Donald Trump, a place that looks a lot like a three-star hotel lobby populated by the likes of, among others, the late Arizona senator, Hillary Clinton, Eva Peron, Taylor Swift, Joe Biden, Lindsey Graham and a Melania-Ivanka mash-up referred to simply as Daughter-Wife.

Ghost of John McCain ultimately comes off as a nicely performed, conceptually overcooked 90-minute SNL cold open set to an amiably cartoonish show tune score.

With a book by Scott Elmegreen, a score by Drew Fornarola and direction by Catie Davis, Ghost of John McCain was co-conceived by McCain’s first chief of staff Grant Woods, and a gentle affection for the “Maverick” underlines the entire...

Sen. Lindsey Graham is on a campaign to alter Nebraska’s election laws to deliver an advantage to former president Donald Trump.

“The entire federal delegation of Nebraska, House members and two senators, want this changed,” Graham said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “To my friends in Nebraska, that one electoral vote could be the difference between Harris being president and not, and she’s a disaster for Nebraska and the world.”

"To my friends in Nebraska, that one electoral vote could be the difference between Harris being...

Prominent Republicans — Sens. J.D. Vance, Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton — all refused to disavow North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson following reporting by CNN that uncovered comments he made online calling himself a “black Nazi” and supporting reinstating slavery before entering politics.

When asked about Robinson’s inflammatory posts, GOP vice presidential nominee Vance equivocated. “I don’t not believe him, I don’t believe him. I just think that you have to let these things sometimes play out in the court of public opinion,” he said Saturday.

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It was Sara Haines‘ birthday on Wednesday’s (September 18) episode of The View, but after a bit of celebration (including walking out to Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” as a nod to her coffee habit), they got right to work discussing the day’s “Hot Topics.” First, they all reflected on Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ recent comments that Vice President Kamala Harris doesn’t have anyone to keep her “humble” since she doesn’t have biological children, which basically leaned right into Jd Vance’s “Childless Cat Lady” controversy. Whoopi Goldberg led the charge in response to the clip, saying, “You know what really pisses me off about this is, if you really cared about the children, where are the tax credits? Where’s the paid family leave?” Sunny Hostin then seized on the opportunity to call out some other prominent Republicans who happen to also be childless, saying, “I’m sorry,...

Laura Loomer — the far-right conspiracy theorist, self-described “proud” anti-Muslim bigot, and close associate of former and perhaps future President Donald Trump — has triggered a multi-day meltdown among the Maga elite and powerful GOP allies who worry that she’s an extreme liability. But in remarks at a California press conference on Friday, Trump signaled that he had no problem with Loomer’s frequently racist rhetoric about immigrants and his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I don’t control Laura,” he said. “She’s a free spirit.”

Loomer accompanied Trump...

Donald Trump called into Fox & Friends this morning, continuing to insist that he won Tuesday’s presidential debate against Kamala Harris yet also that the ABC News event was unfair and “three against one.”

That was a reference to David Muir and Linsey Davis, who in co-moderating also did fact-checks of some of the former president’s wildest claims.

The former president was intent on spinning his performance at the debate, even though he was repeatedly baited by Harris, often sounded angry and went back to his unfounded claim that he won the 2020 election.

The effort to control the narrative started just minutes after the event ended, when both campaigns dispatched their armies of surrogates to the spin room, the Olympic-sized pool area of blue carpet in the Philadelphia Convention Center. The spin room spectacle is an endurance test for campaign talking heads to stick the talking points in the...

Donald Trump imploded on the debate stage against Kamala Harris on Tuesday night. The former president fell for obvious bait presented by the vice president, delivered a series of angry diatribes in the style of his rallies, and told lies that repeatedly forced ABC News’ moderators to fact-check him in real-time.

Right-wing lawmakers and commentators are offering a menu of excuses to minimize the damage. In the post-debate spin room and on social media, the former president’s allies are floating everything from moderator bias, to conspiracies about hidden earpieces,...

Kamala Harris dominated Donald Trump during their first debate on Tuesday, goading the former president into a series of conspiracy-laden rants while delivering impassioned speeches on issues like reproductive rights. The debate went so well that her campaign immediately issued a challenge to Trump for a second debate.

“Vice President Harris is ready for a second debate. Is Donald Trump?” Harris Campaign Manager Jen O’Malley Dillon told reporters.

Trump’s performance was lambasted by prominent Republicans. On Fox News, anchor Brit Hume declared that viewers should “Make no mistake about it,...

On the day Igor Danchenko believes he was betrayed by the U.S. government — when the federal government’s chief law-enforcement officer effectively outed the Russian émigré, then a confidential FBI informant, as the architect of one of the most explosive and controversial documents in American political history — Danchenko was on vacation.

The wiry, voluble man had just arrived at his family’s one-bedroom condo in Ocean City, Maryland, right by the beach and a few hours from their home in northern Virginia. It was shortly after sunset on July 17, 2020, a...

As Vice President Kamala Harris expands her lead in polls nationally and in battleground states, former president Donald Trump has become more erratic, rambling and unpredictable — so much so that one of his staunchest allies says if he can’t get back on message, Trump may lose in November.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, during a Sunday interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, admitted that Trump, “the provocateur, the showman, may not win this election.”

Watch: Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC (R) says “policy is the key to the White House,” while Donald Trump...

Exclusive: Ghost Of John McCain, the new, upcoming Off Broadway musical satire that finds the late Senator in a very, very strange heaven, has found its cast for characters that include McCain, Donald Trump, Donald Trump’s brain and the just-added Kamala Harris.

An example: Luke Kolbe Mannikus, a handsomely baby-faced recent college grad with no fewer than three Broadway credits since his fairly recent childhood a decade ago, will play Donald Trump.

Jason Tam, who played the apostle Peter in the hit NBC Live event Jesus Christ Superstar, and starred in Broadway’s Be More Chill, will play John McCain, and Aaron Michael Ray (The Public Theater’s acclaimed The Low Road), will play Donald Trump’s Brain.

And reflecting swift-moving real-world developments, Zonya Love has just been added to the cast as Kamala Harris.

Ghost of John McCain will preview Tuesday September 3 at the Soho Playhouse ahead of its official opening on Tuesday,...

Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) married his fiancée, interior designer Mindy Noce, during a ceremony at their hometown chapel, Seacoast Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Among the readings at the wedding ceremony, which took place on Saturday, was a Bible passage that started with the reflection, “Two are better than one.”

Founding Seacoast Pastor Greg Surratt, a longtime friend and close mentor who counseled Scott while he weighed a 2024 Republican presidential bid, officiated. The groom’s older brother, Ben Scott, was his best man.

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Joni Blair became best friends with Noce when they attended the College of Charleston, and was the interior designer’s matron of honor.

Scott and Noce, engaged in January, shared their first dance to “Swayin’ to the Music (Slow Dancin’)” by Johnny Rivers.

In addition to close family and friends,...

The Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to provide recourse to victims of porn deepfakes — or sexually-explicit, non-consensual images created with artificial intelligence.

The legislation, called the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (Defiance) Act — passed in Congress’ upper chamber on Tuesday. The legislation has been led by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-s.C.), as well as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-n.Y.) in the House.

The legislation would amend the Violence Against Women Act (Vawa) to allow people to sue those who produce, distribute, or receive the deepfake pornography,...

In 2022, then-Senate candidate J.D. Vance sat down with Aimee Terese — a pundit and podcaster little known to the American public, but prominent in the sloppy trenches of hyper-online digital reactionaries — and removed his filter.

“I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally,” Vance said in the episode, explaining why regulating abortion at the state level wouldn’t work. “Let’s say Roe v. Wade is overruled,” he said. “Ohio bans abortion … you know, in let’s say 2024. And then, every day, George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load...

As Donald Trump recovers from an assassination attempt and Republicans head to Milwaukee for his coronation this week, the GOP elite has rallied around a new messaging strategy: emotionally blackmailing Democratic politicians, journalists, Hollywood celebs, and numerous other Trump critics into shutting up about the former president’s openly authoritarian vows and his extreme policy agenda.

Since the deadly shooting at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday, prominent conservatives have been working to blame the incident on Trump’s enemies for labeling him a “fascist” and for fanning heated “rhetoric” that, in their telling,...

Not long after the attempt to assassinate former president Donald Trump, Republicans began to blame the Democrats; the media; diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts; and critical race theory as responsible for the shooting, even though law enforcement thus far has not shared information about the shooter’s motivations.

“The greatest threat to our nation right now is that we are horribly divided,” Republican Sen. Ron Johnson told Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday. “But again, in general, we share the same goals. Why are we so divided?...

Sen. Lindsay Graham went on a fear-mongering rant about President Joe Biden’s actions to forgive student debt, calling the relief “beyond lawless and beyond dangerous.”

The Biden-Harris administration has approved $167 billion in student debt as of the end of May, helping 4.75 million borrowers across the country. But Graham is furious about it.

“There’s nothing in our law [that] allows him to forgive student loans. If you’re out there working and didn’t go to college, Joe Biden’s forgiving student loans, and you’re paying for them,” the...

In the aftermath of the 2017 Harvest Festival mass shooting — in which 60 Las Vegas concertgoers were killed by a gunman armed with bump stock-equipped rifles — prominent Republican lawmakers supported efforts to ban the firearm accessory. One such legislator was South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. But after the Supreme Court struck down an Atf rule restricting bump stock sales last week, Graham is now threatening to block any effort by Congress to regulate their availability to the public.

On Friday, the Supreme Court decided in a 6-3 ruling that the 1934 National Firearms...

After The New York Times reported that the American flag outside Justice Samuel Alito’s home was flown upside down in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham criticized the conservative judge for failing to “think it through.”

“Emotions are apparently high in that neighborhood but no, it’s not good judgment to do that,” Graham told HuffPost on Monday. “I don’t know what role ― he said his wife was insulted and got mad ― I assume that be true, but he’s still a Supreme Court justice.

Sen. Lindsey Graham doesn’t want Israel to hold back on its assault in Gaza, comparing the Israeli military’s efforts against Hamas to when the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, killing more than 100,000 civilians.

Right now, one million Palestinians — including many women and children — are huddled in the southern Gaza city of Rafah while 300,000 have fled the area as Israel advances its ground invasion. Already Israeli tanks have entered Rafah. The United Nations warned that if Israel invades Rafah, puts hundreds...

If he wins a second term in November, Donald Trump wants to covertly deploy American assassination squads into Mexico soon after he’s sworn into office again, according to three people who’ve discussed the matter with the former U.S. president.

Both during and after his presidency, the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee has floated different ideas for bombing or invading Mexico in response to the American fentanyl crisis and to “wage War” on notorious drug cartels. As president, Trump even thought it was possible to bomb the cartels’ drug labs,...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) said that the FBI is investigating a possible hacking of his phone by someone impersonating Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

“My phone is in the hands of the FBI now,” Graham said. “I got a message, I think, from Schumer, but it wasn’t from Schumer. The next thing you know, my phone’s… I don’t know what. Anything you can create, apparently, can be hacked.”

The Senate Sergeant At Arms, who manages cybersecurity for the chamber, delivered an advisory warning to Senate offices regarding the phishing scheme effort.

“The Sergeant At Arms is investigating a possible hack of Sen. Graham’s phone,” Taylor Reidy, a spokesperson for the South Carolina senator, stated.

Schumer is famous for using a flip phone and preferring calling over texting. Similar hacking attempts were reported on other Senate staff last week.

“Reports of a text-based phishing attack on Senate mobile devices are increasing,...

Jon Stewart and the rest of The Daily Show stars plan to cover the Republican and Democratic National Conventions with their special Indecision 2024.

Comedy Central’s late-night political talk show will hit the road this summer, continuing its coverage of the presidential election, which dates back to the 2000 election.

The Daily Show will air a full week of shows from the RNC in Milwaukee (July 15-18) and the DNC in Chicago (August 19-22), respectively, airing weeknights at 11 p.m. Et/Pt.

Notable presidential candidates and influential political figures who have joined the show over the years include Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Gretchen Witmer, John McCain, Nikki Haley, Rand Paul, John Kasich, Chris Christie, Tim Scott, Larry Hogan and Lindsey Graham among others.

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Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” which welcomed back Jon Stewart as one of its hosts this year, will continue its election year tradition of taking the show on the road to the national political conventions this summer, Variety can confirm.

The extent of Stewart’s involvement at the two conventions has not yet been determined, but Comedy Central has made it official that “The Daily Show” will take its “Indecision 2024” coverage to Milwaukee, Wisc., from July 15 to July 18 for a full week of shows during the Republican National Convention. The following month, “The Daily Show” will set up shop in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention from August 19 to August 22.

This continues an “Indecision” tradition that dates back to 2000, when “The Daily Show” first began covering the conventions, originating shows from battleground states including Georgia, Florida, Ohio and Illinois, as well as from Washington, D.C. As of now,...

Despite being the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) seems unconcerned with the legal troubles facing presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Graham appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning, where he was asked by host Dana Bash about the various developments in the cases against Trump, from the ongoing Manhattan hush-money trial to the Supreme Court hearing Trump’s arguments for presidential immunity.

When Bash asked Graham about former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testifying he used to “catch and...