President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a crazy SOB” in a fundraiser Wednesday in San Francisco, according to the pool reporters traveling with the US president. “We have a crazy SOB that guy, Putin, others. And we always have to be worried about a nuclear conflict. But the existential threat to humanity is…
Posts published in “U.S.”
U.S.A.
Former President Trump on Thursday denied that he is an insurrectionist after President Biden said it was “self-evident” Trump was one for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “I’m not an Insurrectionist,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, specifically pointing to his comments on Jan. 6 in which he encouraged supporters…
“Real Time” host Bill Maher confronted former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the nursing home scandal that plagued his handling of COVID. While sexual harassment allegations led to Cuomo’s ousting from office in August 2021, there was a lingering controversy over his ill-fated policy in March 2020 ordering nursing homes to accept COVID…
Inside the Big Money Hunt for an Alternate Biden. The Ukraine scandal has only amplified fears that the 76-year-old Biden might not have what it takes to go the distance in the general election. But with Bennet polling at 0% in Iowa, and Warren considered too progressive, who might take up his centrist lane? few…
Blinken’s visit follows a whirlwind tour of the Middle East that included an unannounced visit to the West Bank for talks with Palestinian Authority president, Mahmud Abbas, on Sunday. The US diplomat has been facing a chorus of Arab calls to support an immediate ceasefire. Foreign ministers from Qatar, Saudi, Egypt, Jordan and the United…
The “Bennifer” reunion was the big headline of 2021, but now in early 2023, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are a settled married couple. It only took them 20 years and two engagements to get there. Their first round began in 2002, after they starred in that year’s romcom, Gigli. Affleck eventually proposed to J.Lo,…
Burbank Mayor Konstantine Anthony was spanked by a drag queen at the Santa Clarita Valley Democrats’ Drag Queen Bingo fundraiser on Saturday. A video depicts Anthony bent over a table people sat at as a drag queen whacked him with a paddle. The video was posted to Instagram by the Wisenuts Podcast and caught wind…
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) warned Senate Democrats on Tuesday about issuing subpoenas to two prominent billionaires and a conservative activist because of their friendly ties to conservative members of the Supreme Court, calling such a move “totally inappropriate.” McConnell essentially told Democratic colleagues to back off after Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)…
A married Missouri teacher has been charged with sending a 16-year-old boy explicit videos of her pleasuring herself and inviting him to her home for sex while her husband was out of town, court papers allege. The Maries County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation into Rikki Laughlin, 25, who works as a special education teacher…
The new House speaker has put his faith at the center of his political career, and aligned himself with a newer cohort of conservative Christianity that some describe as Christian nationalism. In the moments before he was to face a vote on becoming speaker of the House this week, Representative Mike Johnson posted a photograph…