Could Michelle Obama be making a comeback to the White House — this time as president? For years, conservative media has peddled the notion that the former first lady has presidential ambitions. As recent concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and fitness for office have grown and the November election nears, the rumor mill is […]
A January Fox News segment promoted the bubbling conspiracy theory that singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is a government operative whose mission is bolstering President Joe Biden’s reelection chances. Now a poll shows a significant percentage of Americans are buying the false claim. Monmouth University Polling Institute’s mid-February survey of 902 adults found that nearly 1 in […]
The available evidence suggests Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face each other for the presidency in November. They are 81 and 77 years old, respectively. Trump is facing up to four criminal trials that could theoretically land him in prison. Also, some states are trying to keep Trump off their ballots for his role […]
When Chuck Walter saw the permission slip from his daughter’s Miami school, he turned to social media. Sharing an image of a form that requested parental signature for his first grader to attend a 30-minute “read-aloud” activity in which she would hear a “book by an African American author,” Walter aired his disbelief. “I had […]
In the historic Feb. 13 impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, House Republicans said the Homeland Security secretary “willfully and systematically refused to comply with immigration laws” and “breached public trust” by falsely telling Congress the U.S.-Mexico border was secure. This is the second time in U.S. history that a Cabinet member has been impeached; the first […]
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who has led attempts to update immigration law, this month rejected a bill that would have given immigration officials more funding and changed how asylum is decided for people arriving at the U.S.’ southwest border. Rubio justified his decision in a Feb. 11 CNN interview, saying the bill would have led […]
After a mass shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, left one woman dead and more than 20 people injured, President Joe Biden said “gun violence “is ripping apart” families and American communities daily. On Valentine’s Day, the sixth anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, Biden reeled off a list of […]
With immigration a top issue heading into the 2024 election, politicians have been speaking often about the challenges at the southern U.S. border. The collapse of a bipartisan border security bill after months of negotiations between Republicans and Democrats was the latest chapter in the national political saga. The heated conversation over immigration often includes […]
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spurred international alarm when he said he would “encourage” Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to a NATO member country that didn’t “pay” for collective defense. Trump made the comment Feb. 10 at a Conway, South Carolina, rally as he described a conversation with an unnamed NATO country […]
The special counsel report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents was a major discussion topic on the Sunday morning political talk shows. The president’s critics played up Special Counsel Robert Hur’s description of Biden’s allegedly poor memory; defenders countered that such details were inaccurate, out of bounds for such a report, or both. […]
Trusting what you see is harder than ever these days. During Super Bowl LVIII, artificial intelligence appeared in multiple ads, as a product, a highlighted feature of a product or as the butt of a joke. For some viewers, AI was so top of mind that they started seeing it even where it wasn’t. In […]
Special counsel Robert Hur on Feb. 8 released his long-awaited report into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. Social media users then parsed Hur’s words from the report to make unfounded claims about the report’s conclusions. Hur said in his report he declined to prosecute Biden, but noted there was evidence Biden willfully retained […]