The ‘stakes are high’ in the investigation into the Alaska Airline flight that was forced to make an emergency landing when a panel of the Boeing plane blew out midair, according to the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board. Sunday was the first full day of the NTSB investigation into the incident on Friday. […]Read More
Retailers are now in the throes of processing billions of dollars in returned holiday gifts, but many of those items aren’t going back on shelves. Instead, they’ll be bundled off to warehouses and sold in auctions for a fraction of their sticker prices. More than 15% of the $966 billion in purchases nationwide this past […]Read More
The Republican presidential ad wars were not supposed to end like this. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — once the most well-funded GOP presidential contender with allies that consistently outspent his foes — has failed to keep up the pace in Iowa, the only state where he can now afford to advertise at all. Spots supporting […]Read More
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former congressman J. Gresham Barrett (R-S.C.) still remembers what he calls the “seismic” quake that upended the 2010 South Carolina Republican primary for governor. His campaign had just gotten polling results that second Wednesday in May, which showed him leading a trio of rivals — two other White Republicans and a little-known […]Read More
NEWTON, Iowa — Former president Donald Trump suggested Saturday at a campaign event here that the U.S. Civil War “could have been negotiated,” a remark that drew criticism from historians as well as political opponents. “The Civil War was so fascinating, so horrible,” Trump said. “So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I […]Read More
Republican polling leader Donald Trump observed the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by glorifying people charged in the riot, repeating baseless claims that left-wing or government interlopers caused the breach, and attempting to turn the term “insurrection” against his political opponents. The remarks were part of an ongoing […]Read More
Republican polling leader Donald Trump did not sign a loyalty oath requested of candidates for election in Illinois that asks, among other things, to swear that they won’t support overthrowing the government, according to an analysis of candidate petitions by the local news outlets WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times. His decision to not sign the pledge […]Read More
Former president Donald Trump took to his social media website one day this past week to post a report ridden with falsehoods about fraud in the 2020 election. And his legal team cited Trump’s post in a brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where he faces charges of obstructing the […]Read More
Donald Trump ridiculed President Biden over the economy, immigration and foreign policy before turning to personal mockery during an Iowa event on Friday night. A few hours after Biden had given a sweeping denunciation of Trump, calling him a sore loser and a threat to American democracy, the former president made fun of Biden’s childhood […]Read More
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday invited President Biden to deliver the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on March 7. “In this moment of great challenge for our country, it is my solemn duty to extend this invitation,” said Johnson, who took over the speakership role in October, […]Read More