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Democratic strategist James Carville on Sunday blasted former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley as “spineless” for supporting former President Trump’s bid for reelection. He pointed to Haley’s Sunday morning interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” where she laid out a strong case for supporting Taiwan but stood by her endorsement of the former president,...

Miami Dolphins player Tyreek Hill was pulled over Sunday in a traffic incident and briefly detained by police while on his way to the stadium for the team's season opener, the team announced on social media. Hill was about one block from Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., when police pulled the wide receiver...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) circulated a letter to Senate colleagues Sunday afternoon warning them of the looming government funding deadline of Sept. 30 and highlighting rail safety legislation and proposals to lower the cost of insulin and prescription drugs as top priorities remaining in 2024. Schumer also said he would make it a...

Rap star Kendrick Lamar will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX halftime show in New Orleans this February. Lamar will perform from the Caesars Superdome in Louisiana on Feb. 9, the National Football League (NFL), Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday. The news came just hours before the league kicked off its first...

Congress is staring down a time crunch to avert a shutdown, with both parties digging in their heels and some Republicans expressing skepticism about their own party’s plans less than a month before government funding is set to run out. Lawmakers return to Washington on Monday facing a Sept. 30 deadline to avert a government...

An independent candidate is threatening to scramble the race for Nebraska’s Senate seat in what could be one of the more surprising contests this fall. Dan Osborn is running a long-shot independent bid to oust Sen. Deb Fischer (R) in the reliably red state. Democrats are sitting out the race, and Republicans have sought to...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday he still considers Vice President Harris "progressive" despite her recent policy shift to the center on some issues. “I do,” Sanders said on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” when asked whether he still considers Harris progressive. He noted "she is not where I am" on several issues, but the...

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Saturday he does not like Democrats’ newfound rhetorical device of labeling Republicans “weird” in campaign messages. He criticized the approach at a live event with The Guardian at a festival hosted by The Texas Tribune and said Democrats should instead focus on bringing the country together. “I’m not, in candor,...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said in an interview Sunday that he is “tired of seeing texts from children in a school telling their parents that they're afraid and that they love them” following a shooting at a high school in Georgia this week. “I'm tired of seeing texts from children in a school...

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Sunday took aim at some politicians whom he described as "beholden to the gun lobby" while lamenting his frustrations about gun violence in the wake of last week's school shooting at a Georgia high school. "The reality is that in America, it's not safe to be in our schools. It's...

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Sunday knocked Republican vice presidential candidate and Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) for saying he laments school shootings as a "fact of life" after a shooting at a Georgia high school left four people dead and several others injured last week. “JD Vance claims that this kind of random, routine carnage...

Former President George W. Bush does not plan to formally endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, his office told multiple outlets on Saturday. Neither Bush nor his wife Laura Bush plans to publicly share who they will vote for, according to NBC News, with his office adding that “President Bush retired from presidential...

Former President Trump said that he supports “modifying” the 25th Amendment that would permit the ouster of a U.S. vice president who “lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president of the United States.” Trump told his supporters at a rally in Mosinee, Wisc., that “if you do that...

Former President Trump on Saturday threatened to legally target individuals who he has accused of fraud related to his 2020 electoral defeat if he wins the presidential race in November, making one of his clearest pledges to date to go after his opponents. Trump, who has repeatedly claimed that the 2020 election was fraudulent and...

Former President Trump posted online saying no props or lifts will be used in the upcoming debate to make one candidate appear taller, calling it cheating. “No boxes or artificial lifts will be allowed to stand on during my upcoming debate with Comrade Kamala Harris. We had this out previously with former NYC Mayor Michael...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the U.S. should “more fully leverage” its relationship with Israel to reduce civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip. Pelosi said the situation in Gaza is “intolerable," but reiterated the U.S. support for Israel and the Jewish state’s right to defend itself, calling the country “our security partner, our...

The director of the 2020 movie based on Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s (R) book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” said that he won't be casting a vote for former President Trump despite Vance being his VP in a video posted Saturday. “There's no version of me voting for Donald Trump to be president again, whoever the Vice President...

Democrats say Vice President Harris’s decision to offer a more modest capital gains tax hike on the wealthy is a step in the right direction to win over voters concerned she’s too liberal or too antagonistic to business. The Trump campaign has cast Harris as a liberal firebrand, pointing to various positions she took in...

The 2024 presidential election is heating up ahead of the ABC News debate, set for Sept. 10, between former President Trump and Vice President Harris. Harris arrived in Pittsburgh on Thursday where she continued to prepare for the upcoming debate. Her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), was out on the campaign trail, engaging...

The heads of the American and British foreign intelligence agencies praised Ukraine’s incursion into Russia as Ukraine attempts to shift the course of the war. Richard Moore, the head of MI6, said Ukraine’s surprise August offensive into Russia’s Kursk region was “typically audacious and bold on the part of the Ukrainians to try and change...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning over recalled eggs sold in three states on Friday. In a “Food Safety Alert,” the agency said 24 hospitalizations had occurred due to a “Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Eggs.” The agency told people to “not eat any recalled eggs” and noted that “Milo’s Poultry...

Vice President Kamala Harris' "Root Causes" strategy to address the migration crisis in Central America has had little impact, as it relied on failed development strategies and added emphasis on liberal wish list priorities, while neglecting the need for a secure border.

Comedian and TV personality Bill Maher blasted critics of Cheryl Hines following her husband, former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., endorsing former President Trump, calling them “obnoxious posers.”  Hines received pushback online when her husband suspended his independent presidential bid and announced he would back Trump. Days later, Kennedy said his wife was...

Former President Trump on Saturday dismissed findings from the Justice Department about Russia's covert efforts to influence the 2024 U.S. elections and joked about whether he should be offended that Vladimir Putin had offered a tongue-in-cheek endorsement of Vice President Harris. Trump held a rally in Wisconsin, where he referenced a Justice Department announcement earlier...