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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, first in line to become Speaker of the House if Republicans take over in November, is facing the music. The song in particular is leaked audio from a meeting McCarthy had with fellow Republicans after the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which McCarthy said that he’d …

At the core of Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine is the notion of sovereignty — and in particular, whether Ukraine deserves it. Ukrainians, and the vast majority of people and governments in the rest of the world, say it does. Russia, which invaded the country in late February in an …

Mark Meadows texted with Trump’s family, Jan. 6 rally organizers, right-wing media personalities, and over 40 Republican members of Congress between Election Day and President Biden’s inauguration just over two months later, CNN reported on Monday. The messages, which have been obtained by the Jan. 6 committee, make clear that …

As Russia’s military wages a more and more brutal campaign against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s propagandists are in overdrive. Calls the “annihilation” of Ukraine are shouted ever stronger, and supposed Western plots are growing ever wilder. And what’s worse is that social media and the work of Kremlin apologists is beginning …

Several yachts belonging to Russian oligarchs have been commandeered by various law enforcement agencies in retaliation for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that started in late February. The latest is a $90-million, 255-foot vessel owned by owned by Putin crony Viktor Vekselberg, which Spanish authorities took hold of at the …

President Joe Biden had taken a shine last fall to a Senate proposal that would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for his sweeping economic agenda through a tax on the mega rich. So had many of his top aides, who had pushed for such a tax since the beginning …

Lobbyists for at least 13 corporations that pledged to stop giving money to election-denying Republicans have been stuffing the pockets of those very Republicans, according to Federal Election Commission filings reviewed by Politico. The findings underscore how influence peddlers have worked around their employers’ attempts to distance themselves from lawmakers …

Fox News host Tucker Carlson‘s obsession with defending Russian President Vladimir Putin and former president Donald Trump hit a new low on Monday’s edition of Carlson’s nightly show. During his opening monologue, Carlson recycled a baseless conspiracy theory that it wasn’t Russia that carried out a cyberattack on the Democratic …

Gary Chambers Jr.’s first campaign ad was short and simple: The Louisiana Senate Candidate alone, in a park in New Orleans, sitting in a leather armchair, smoking a massive blunt. The ad landed him a wave of press, all of which, he told Rolling Stone, were part of an attempt …

An Arizona bill that would allow state lawmakers to reject election results was essentially doomed by a parliamentary procedure that the bill’s lead sponsor compared to a “lynching.” Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers on Tuesday sunk the bill by assigning it not just to one or two House committees, but …