In their debt ceiling negotiations with President Joe Biden, Republican leaders have called for budget cuts and framed their efforts in a way most Americans would understand: as kitchen-table family budgeting. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. — who passed legislation through the House that would raise the debt limit and cap future federal spending — […]
Does the expiration of the Title 42 public health policy mean immigrants are no longer being deported if they reach the southern border illegally? That’s the impression given by a Spanish-language TikTok video. In the video, which has more than 17 million views, José Román, a social media influencer who posts about immigration issues, said: […]
A graphic shared on Twitter shows a significant increase in use of the words “racist, racists or racism” in articles published in four major U.S. newspapers. From 2010 to 2020, it says, the frequency of those words increased 712% in The New York Times; 756% in the Los Angeles Times; 361% in The Washington Post; […]
After House Republicans released bank records from their investigation into Biden family business dealings, the phrases “Biden crime family” and “Biden family corruption” dominated conservative banter online. Conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren said she would be referring to the Bidens as “the Biden scamily” going forward. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, wrote on Twitter […]
The indictment and arrest of Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., on May 10 cast a pall over his political future. But any direct consequences on his service in the House are unlikely to emerge anytime soon. In December, shortly after Santos unexpectedly won a seat representing parts of Queens and Long Island, news reports in The […]
A jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York department store almost three decades ago and also found that Trump defamed her. The jury was split on whether Trump was liable for raping Carroll, but awarded her a $5 million judgment. Trump plans to appeal […]
Previous presidents have declined to use the 14th Amendment to prevent a federal default on the national debt. But May 9, President Joe Biden cracked open the door to deploying an untested legal strategy involving the amendment best known for granting citizenship to enslaved Black Americans following the Civil War. Biden faces a standoff with […]
Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, whose district borders northeast Mexico, said there need to be consequences at the border so that people stop trying to cross illegally. In a May 7 Fox News interview that discussed the expiration of Title 42, the public health policy that effectively prevented people from applying for asylum at the border, […]
In a raucous town hall where an audience of invited Republicans often cheered him on, former President Donald Trump insisted he didn’t know the woman who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict against him, suggested the U.S. might as well default on its debt and dodged questions about whether he would sign […]
Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican who told an array of falsehoods about his background on his way to winning a congressional seat in 2022, was arrested May 10 and charged by federal prosecutors with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts […]
A jury in a civil lawsuit May 9 found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996 at a New York department store and for defaming her after she went public in 2019 with her allegations. It awarded a $5 million judgment against Trump, who soon after the verdict […]
After any massive tragedy, it’s common for bad actors to take advantage of a void in verified information to spread falsehoods — and for well-meaning yet unwitting members of the public to amplify that false information. The same happened after Saturday’s massacre at Allen Premium Outlets. In the days after the mass shooting, which killed […]