Latest Stories By Samantha Putterman

Joe Biden utilizó su discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión en 2024 para adoptar una postura de lucha.  Biden no dijo el nombre del expresidente Donald Trump en sus comentarios, pero invocó con frecuencia el historial y las propuestas de Trump, refiriéndose a él normalmente como “mi predecesor.”  Algunos republicanos criticaron a Biden desde […]

Facing a challenging path to reelection amid low favorability ratings and public wariness over the economy, President Joe Biden used his 2024 State of the Union address to take a fighting posture. He repeatedly drew contrasts with his presumptive Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, and occasionally sparred with GOP lawmakers in the audience. “This […]

Abortion rights advocate California Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched ads criticizing efforts in Republican-led states to stop women from traveling out of state for abortions. On CNN’s “The Lead” with Jake Tapper, the Democrat bashed the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that said frozen embryos should be considered children. Newsom then shared an eye-popping figure […]

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 a Feb. 8 press conference responding to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents report, President Joe Biden made misleading and inaccurate statements about the documents — including how documents were stored in lockable cabinets in his home and who the material was shared with — points the report contradicts.   Here are Biden’s statements and what […]

A special counsel investigating President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents concluded that no criminal charges were warranted. However, Robert Hur in his final report criticized Biden’s practices in handling sensitive documents, saying he had found evidence that Biden had “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” as a private citizen after he served as vice […]

Republican lawmakers who oppose a new bipartisan Senate immigration bill are using the words of one of the bill’s sponsors to bolster their opposition. During a Feb. 6 news conference, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., held up an X post, blown up on a poster board, written by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. “You can see this […]

Nearly six years after a 19-year-old fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida Republicans are pushing to lower the legal age for buying rifles and other long guns back to 18. Lawmakers in 2018 raised the purchase age to 21 following revelations that Stoneman Douglas shooter Nikolas Cruz had legally purchased […]

He dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had pushed to “make America Florida,” is still aiming to shape national policy. DeSantis is proposing an alternative method of proposing U.S. Constitutional amendments that would let states call a convention if enough of them ask Congress.  In a Jan. 29 […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley saw a path to besting the quadruply-indicted former President Donald Trump when they entered the primary to become the Republican presidential nominee. With days until the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses and the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary, voters will tell these candidates exactly how […]

Four minutes into the Iowa Republican presidential debate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley directed viewers to a website her campaign started to counter what she called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “lies.” “You’re gonna find out tonight there’s going to be a lot of Ron’s lies that have happened,” Haley said  in the Jan. 10 CNN […]

During a back-and-forth on immigration during the Jan. 10 Iowa debate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis mentioned a Brooklyn, New York, school.  “Think about what’s happening to our country. Just this week, we saw the news that a high s– that a school in Brooklyn, New York, had the kids stay home,” DeSantis said. “They were not […]