Shortly after the 2020 election, the research organization PRRI released a fascinating set of data showing just how closely support for Donald Trump was linked to religion. The higher the percentage of White Christian residents in a county, PRRI determined, the more support that county tended to have for Trump. This week, PRRI published a […]Read More

All of this began in the early morning hours of Nov. 4, 2020. After polls closed on Election Day, Donald Trump could have accepted that American voters had opted to replace him. He could have ignored the months of groundwork laid to claim that the election was stolen and admit that it wasn’t. But he […]Read More

A controversial fetal development video created by an antiabortion group is being pushed into American classrooms, with lawmakers in several states pursuing legislation mandating that Live Action’s “Baby Olivia” or another presentation like it be shown in schools. North Dakota last year became the first state to pass such a bill, after a state senator […]Read More

A Republican senator has blocked legislation that would protect in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies in the wake of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children under state law. Prominent Republican officials and candidates have voiced support for IVF since the Alabama ruling, though Democrats have responded with skepticism, arguing […]Read More

“You’re not safe in Joe Biden’s America.” — tagline of Trump campaign ad posted on social media Donald Trump’s presidential campaign moved quickly to tie the killing of a Georgia nursing student, allegedly by a Venezuelan migrant who entered the country illegally in 2022, to the surge of undocumented immigrants at the southern border under […]Read More

President Biden’s doctor on Wednesday released a summary of his health following an annual checkup in which he declared no major new concerns and said the president “continues to be fit for duty.” The six-page summary was released at a time when Biden’s age and cognitive abilities have been under scrutiny as the nation’s oldest […]Read More

An Illinois judge ruled Wednesday that former president Donald Trump should be removed from the state’s primary ballot because of the 14th Amendment ban on insurrectionists holding office. Illinois became the third state where Trump has been kicked off the primary ballot, following Colorado and Maine. Both of those states’ rulings are on hold pending […]Read More

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) ducked out of the closed-door deposition of President Biden’s son Hunter a few hours before it ended. But, no matter. He’d seen enough. “I think this was a great deposition for us,” he told reporters waiting outside the hearing room. “It proved several bits of our evidence that […]Read More

NEW YORK — A New York judge on Wednesday rejected a request from Donald Trump to delay enforcement of a judgment totaling at least $450 million while he appeals that order, but allowed the former president’s adult sons to remain in leadership positions at the Trump Organization for the time being. The decision dealt with […]Read More

Two weeks ago, a New York judge ordered Donald Trump to pay a huge penalty of $355 million plus interest — a grand total of more than $450 million — after finding him liable for fraudulently inflating his wealth. But now that it’s time to produce such an amount, Trump’s legal team is undercutting both […]Read More