James Talarico has decided that God isn’t nonbinary after all. Anyone who has relied on the Texas senatorial candidate for theological guidance might be experiencing whiplash. Talarico is trying to clean up a series of idiotic statements, including about God's supposed nonconforming ...
A no-holds-barred bout of partisan redistricting has been won by Republicans. Now it's up to voters to decide whether it matters for control of Congress. Republicans could net about 10 additional U.S. House seats in the November elections if redrawn voting districts perform as they were ...
Today is Thursday, June 4, the 155th day of 2026. There are 210 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1989, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pro-democracy demonstrators and dozens of soldiers are estimated to have been killed when Chinese troops crushed a seven-week-long protest by demonstrators occupying Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Also on this date: In 1812, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its first declaration of war against Britain, approving the measure by a vote of 79-49. In 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which said that the ...
Politics is the only profession of which I am aware in which competence doesn’t seem to matter. One can fail miserably; one can be corrupt and one can get away with crimes that if committed by someone outside of elective office, arrest, prosecution and a stint in jail would be the result. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is scrapping plans to create a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate allies of the Republican president, the Justice Department's top official said Tuesday in retreating from a program that faced setbacks in the courts and a fierce political ...
Today is Wednesday, June 3, the 154th day of 2026. There are 211 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1943, an altercation between U.S. Navy sailors and young Mexican Americans on the streets of Los Angeles led to several days of clashes known as the Zoot Suit Riots as white mobs attacked Mexican Americans across the city, injuring more than 150 people. Also on this date: In 1844, the last confirmed specimens of the great auk, a flightless bird, were killed on Eldey Island, near Iceland. In 1888, the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published in the ...
