The politics of Israel are changing Poll after poll shows increasing and wide disapproval among Democrats for Israel’s actions in Gaza. Disapproval with a majority of independents as well. And even a pronounced slippage amongst ... 04/9/2024 - 10:30 am | View Link
Dr. Bob, 75, knows aging’s toll. He wonders if Biden and Trump do Dr. Bob Ross cares for the aging residents of Ortonville, Minn, even as he wonders whether he, and the presidential candidates, are up to all their tasks. 04/8/2024 - 11:12 am | View Link
Jamie Dimon on Ukraine: Staying on sidelines not an option JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, a key voice in U.S. business and finance circles, said the U.S. cannot stand on the sidelines in Ukraine’s fight against Russia, pushing back on calls from some in the ... 04/8/2024 - 4:01 am | View Link
Biden, Trump and Dr. Bob: the Human Realities of Aging on the Job He had become the local expert on what he called the “unwanted side effects of old age,” so Dr. Bob Ross, 75, rubbed arthritis cream onto his hands and walked into an exam room to see his seventh ... 04/8/2024 - 12:22 am | View Link
Opinion: Darkness in daytime — how to spend those few minutes Nearly 100 years ago, an impending solar eclipse prompted whimsical suggestions for how to spend the few minutes of darkness from a prominent American humorist. Millions are on the move to get to the ... 04/7/2024 - 12:14 pm | View Link
House members are lobbying Speaker Mike Johnson to raise the threshold to trigger the procedure to oust the speaker. However, Johnson announced he would not change the procedure for removing him from the speakership after Republican hardliners reacted with fury to the proposed change of rules. A single member can force a floor vote on the motion to vacate - part of the deal Kevin McCarthy made to become speaker last year.
Jury selection for the remaining alternates continues Friday in former President Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
Democrats helped Republican leaders advance legislation to provide billions in stalled security funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, steering the measures closer toward passage this weekend. Via CBS News:
After about nine hours of recess, the House Rules Committee reconvened late Thursday night and moved GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's foreign aid bills on a 9-3 vote, thanks to the votes of all four Democrats who sit on the committee: Ranking Member Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Rep.
Despite warnings from Judge Juan Merchan that the media should not be revealing too many details which could identify the jurors in the Trump trial in Manhattan, Fox's Jesse Watters spent another evening railing about them in the obvious hope that they'll either be identified or intimidated.
I watched at least one pundit on MSNBC say the judge could have shut this sort of thing down ahead of time by not making their information available to the media at all.
Juanita Jean - hubris, thy name is Donald;
Lawyers, Guns & Money - NPR agonistes and the Bari Weiss grift model;
Left Jabs - GOP Putin caucus now in the spotlight;
Obsidian Wings - the eyes have it;
Roy Edroso Breaks it Down - Romney: the Wrath of Rockefeller.
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Day 3 of the Trump Criminal Trial was quite a chaotic one!!!
Started with fireworks about more of Trump's gag order violations, the worst one being a post with a direct quote attacking the jurors. After his post accusing jurors of being "undercover liberal activists", Juror #2 (an oncology nurse that was outed by the incredible amount of detail reported by journalists), decided to leave the jury!
Fox News host Jesse Watters on Tuesday broadcast extensive biographical details about Juror No.