What A Day

How The Ed Department Fumbled The FAFSA Revamp

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The U.S. vetoed a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and stood alone on the 15-member U.N. Security Council in its vote. To u...

Mapping Out A New Wisconsin And Beyond

20 Feb 2024

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Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers signed new legislative maps into law on Monday, and broke a Republican gerrymander that has shaped the st...

How We Got Here: How Lead Poisoning Rewired America

17 Feb 2024

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What do the 1970s crime wave, the endangerment of the California condor, and Gen Xers demanding to speak to the manager have in common? There’s a co...

Trump’s Week of Legal Woes

16 Feb 2024

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Fulton County DA Fani Willis and special counsel Nathan Wade both took the stand on Thursday about their prior romantic relationship. The hearing will...

How Dems Can Play To Win

15 Feb 2024

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A mass shooting at Wednesday’s Super Bowl parade for the Kansas City Chiefs left one person dead and 21 more injured. Authorities said they had thre...

Republicans Impeach Homeland Secretary Mayorkas

14 Feb 2024

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House Republicans impeached Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday in a 214-213 vote. Meanwhile in New York, Democrat Tom Suozzi...

Pennsylvania’s House Special

13 Feb 2024

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Control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives hinges on a special election taking place today in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Democrats current...

Replacing The Con In Congress

12 Feb 2024

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Tuesday is Election Day for the race to replace George Santos in New York’s third congressional district. The candidates running for the seat includ...

How We Got Here: How Sports Betting Took Over America

10 Feb 2024

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It’s Week 2 of What a Day’s new series “How We Got Here,” in which Hysteria’s Erin Ryan and Offline’s Max Fisher pose a question about the...

The Question Of Trump's Eligibility

09 Feb 2024

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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in a case considering whether or not Donald Trump can be removed from the ballot in Colorado becaus...

The Case for Amendment 4

08 Feb 2024

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The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments about Amendment 4 — a constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to abortion up ...

Citizen Trump

07 Feb 2024

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A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump's immunity claim and ruled that he can be put on trial over his efforts to overturn the 2020 ...

Brittney Gilliam's Family Reaches A Settlement

06 Feb 2024

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Brittney Gilliam agreed to a $1.9 million settlement more than three years after police officers in Aurora, Colorado held her, her sister, her two nie...

Trump’s Trials And Errors

05 Feb 2024

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis admitted to having a personal relationship with Nathan Wade, the prosecutor she hired to handle the electi...

How We Got Here: Why it Feels Like the Southern Border is Always in Crisis

03 Feb 2024

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Welcome to What a Day’s How We Got Here, a new weekend series where Hysteria’s Erin Ryan and Offline’s Max Fisher pose a question about the week...

TikTok's Timeout

02 Feb 2024

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President Joe Biden issued an executive order imposing sanctions and visa bans on Israeli settlers who were accused of attacking Palestinians and Isra...

Kickin' Off The Party In South Carolina

01 Feb 2024

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The first official Democratic primary of 2024 taking place this Saturday in South Carolina. President Joe Biden has seen a decline in support among Bl...

Big Tech CEOs Testify Before Congress

31 Jan 2024

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Despite reported headway in the negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday rejected Hamas’ two primary demands for an extend...

The Deal with the Border Deal

30 Jan 2024

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A bipartisan immigration deal in Congress could be announced as soon as this week. The agreement would give the executive branch the legal authority t...

Israel Ordered To Prevent Acts Of Genocide

29 Jan 2024

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The UN’s International Court of Justice ruled last Friday ordering Israel to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza, but stopped short of calling for a ce...

CIA Chief Heads Abroad to Broker Gaza Deal

26 Jan 2024

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President Joe Biden will send CIA Director William Burns to help negotiate a new deal between Israel and Hamas to release hostages. Meanwhile, protest...

How NYC’s Mayor Fails Migrants

25 Jan 2024

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivered his third State of the City address on Wednesday. Since just last spring, 170,000 migrants have arrived in Ne...

Nikki Haley Gets Trumped In New Hampshire

24 Jan 2024

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Former President Donald Trump won New Hampshire’s Republican primary on Tuesday and defeated former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley. Meanwhile, Presiden...

Supreme Court Rules Against Texas' Border Razor Wire

23 Jan 2024

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The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Biden administration has the authority to remove parts of a barbed wire barrier erected by Texas officials ...

DeSantis Discontinued

22 Jan 2024

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially exited from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed former President Donald Trump. He made the announcement i...

Fani Willis Fights Back Against Misconduct Claims

19 Jan 2024

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faces misconduct allegations after a co-defendant in Georgia’s election interference case against Trump ...

Gaza Gets Crucial Medicine Delivery

18 Jan 2024

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Israel and Hamas reached an agreement on Wednesday to get medicine delivered to hostages held in Gaza. In exchange, humanitarian aid and medication wi...

The Push For More Ukraine Aid

17 Jan 2024

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President Biden invited Congressional leaders to the White House Wednesday for their first face-to-face talks in months about critical aid to Ukraine,...

Iowa's Participation Awards Go To...

16 Jan 2024

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The Iowa caucuses are officially over. Donald Trump won as expected with just over 50 percent of the vote, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came in sec...

Caucusing Up A Storm

15 Jan 2024

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The Iowa caucuses are here. Former President Donald Trump is in the lead, according to the most recent Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa poll...

Explaining Iowa's Raucous Caucus

12 Jan 2024

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The Iowa Caucuses are back! Trump is the clear favorite, but there’s a tense battle for second place that is all going to play out on Monday. We div...

Israel Goes On Trial For Genocide

11 Jan 2024

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Israel is accused of committing genocide in Gaza in a case before the International Court of Justice on Thursday. South Africa filed the claim, and it...

Trump's Unappealing Appeal

10 Jan 2024

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Donald Trump was back in court on Tuesday for the federal case against him for trying to overturn the 2020 election. This time, however, Trump tried t...

Florida Man Gets Fired

09 Jan 2024

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The Chair of Florida’s Republican Party of Florida, Christian Ziegler, was removed from his position on Monday after a closed-door meeting of party ...

Boeing Troubles Take Off

08 Jan 2024

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The Federal Aviation Administration ordered the inspection of 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after a panel blew out of an Alaska Airlines plane mid-fligh...

NYC Sues Over Migrant Buses

05 Jan 2024

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ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombings in Iran that killed at least 84 people and injured 284 others on Wednesday. Plus, the United States launc...

Abortion Rights And Texas Wrongs

04 Jan 2024

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An appeals court ruled on Tuesday that doctors in Texas are not required to perform emergency abortion care as a necessary, stabilizing treatment to p...

Trump's Maine Squeeze

03 Jan 2024

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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday appealed the decision by Maine’s Secretary of State that bars him from the ballot due to his role in the Ja...

And WAD's Person Of The Year Is...

15 Dec 2023

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The Biden administration is pressuring Israel to scale back its war by the end of the year. And earlier this week, President Joe Biden warned that Isr...

The Difference Between Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism

14 Dec 2023

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday announced that it will hear a case challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the commonly used abort...

Optimism? In This Economy?!

13 Dec 2023

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A group of ten current and formerly incarcerated people in Alabama filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday to allege inhumane conditions in the state’s p...

The Golden Globe Standard

12 Dec 2023

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The UN Climate Change Conference – known as COP28 – hit a major roadblock on Monday. There’s disagreement between countries because a potential ...

All's Well That Ends Sickle Cell

11 Dec 2023

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The Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted the abortion procedure for Kate Cox, a 31-year-old pregnant woman who was granted the country’s first cou...

Texas Grants Nation's First Court-Sanctioned Abortion

08 Dec 2023

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A Texas judge ruled Thursday that a woman can terminate her pregnancy because of a lethal abnormality in the fetus. It’s the first attempt in the co...

Biden Delivers Billions More Student Debt Relief

07 Dec 2023

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Senate Republicans blocked meaningful gun control once again Wednesday by stopping a Democratic measure that would have banned assault-style weapons. ...

Tommy Tubervillainy

06 Dec 2023

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GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama finally backed down on Tuesday after single-handedly blocking nearly every single military promotion for almos...

SCOTUS Decides Fate Of Landmark Opioid Settlement

05 Dec 2023

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The Biden administration is sounding the alarm to Congress about the need to pass a funding bill to support Ukraine in their war with Russia. White Ho...

Hundreds Dead In Gaza After Truce Ends

04 Dec 2023

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Hundreds of Palestinians were killed since fighting resumed after a weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas ended Friday morning. Israeli officials ar...

Fighting Resumes In Israel-Hamas War

01 Dec 2023

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The weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas expired early Friday morning local time and combat operations resumed. Prior to that, Hamas released eight...

Good COP28, Bad COP28

30 Nov 2023

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The UN’s 28th Conference of the Parties, also called COP28, kicks off today in Dubai. The annual climate change conference is set to take place thro...

Trump Wants To Repeal Obamacare. Again.

29 Nov 2023

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Donald Trump threatened to replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, if he wins the 2024 presidential election. Trump took to social media over t...

Young Thug, Trump Vs. Georgia’s RICO Act

28 Nov 2023

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Israel and Hamas both agreed on Monday to extend the current pause in fighting for another two days. Hamas released another 11 hostages as part of the...

Hostages Released In The Israel-Hamas War

27 Nov 2023

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Seventeen more hostages held by Hamas were released on Sunday under a temporary, four-day ceasefire agreement reached last week between Israel and Ham...

Voting Rights Act Under Threat (Again)

21 Nov 2023

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A federal appeals court on Monday issued a ruling that jeopardizes the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In a 2-1 decision, the Court of Appeals for the Eigh...

Closed Doors At OpenAI

20 Nov 2023

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Israel, Hamas and the U.S. are close to an agreement to free some hostages held in Gaza, according to The Washington Post. The tentative deal, which i...

Israel-Hamas War Protests Intensify

17 Nov 2023

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Family members of Israeli hostages held by Hamas are currently on a five-day march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with plans to end the march in front of...

Biden's San Francisco Mission

16 Nov 2023

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President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping met on Wednesday for the first time in a year. Following their private conversations, it was an...

GOP Goes WWE

15 Nov 2023

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The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s bill to avoid a government shutdown. The measure passed with bipartisan suppor...

Strictly Scrutinizing The Ethics Code

14 Nov 2023

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The Supreme Court announced its first-ever ethics code on Monday after pressure from Congress and the public. But it’s unclear how the code – sign...

The People's Stop Work Order

13 Nov 2023

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Local organizers in Atlanta are set to hold a mass nonviolent community action today against Cop City — the 90-million-dollar police training comple...

Joe Manchin Jeopardizes Democratic Control

10 Nov 2023

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Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election in 2024. Manchin’s decision to step down leaves De...

The GOP In The 305

09 Nov 2023

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The third GOP presidential debate took place in Miami last night with five hopefuls on stage. Meanwhile, Donald Trump skipped out and held a rally nea...

Abortion Rights Wins Elections

08 Nov 2023

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Tuesday was Election Day in key battleground states. In Ohio, voters codified reproductive rights into the state’s constitution. And over in Kentuck...

Trump Testified And It Was Chaos

07 Nov 2023

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Israeli forces said they were closing in on Gaza City as of Monday night. Meanwhile, Palestinian health officials said more than 10,000 people have be...

In The Blinken of an Eye

06 Nov 2023

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Israeli troops said they closed in on Gaza City, and Gaza appeared to be under yet another communications blackout on Sunday – the third in 10 days....

The Push For A Pause

03 Nov 2023

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As Israeli troops enter Gaza City and the Palestinian death toll crosses 9,000 lives, the U.S. is pushing for a humanitarian pause in the war between ...

Exit to Egypt

02 Nov 2023

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The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt opened on Wednesday for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began. The move comes after a deal ...

The Tragedy of War, Made Worse

01 Nov 2023

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Israel confirmed that an airstrike targeting a top Hamas commander hit a densely populated refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing at least 50 people a...

Not On My Ballot

31 Oct 2023

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As Israel continues its air and ground offensive into Gaza, its military says it has freed an IDF soldier who was captured by Hamas on October 7th. Me...

The Global Plea For Peace

30 Oct 2023

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Gaza’s Health Ministry says that over 8,000 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas. Israel has since ...

A Dark Day For Maine

27 Oct 2023

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A manhunt is underway in Maine for the gunman behind two shootings in Maine. Eighteen people were killed and thirteen others were injured Wednesday ev...

The Real House Speaker of D.C.

26 Oct 2023

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Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana is the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, ending a 22-days of GOP in-fighting since Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s o...

Never Have I Emmer

25 Oct 2023

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The whirlwind saga to choose the next House speaker continues. After three rounds of secret votes late Tuesday night, House Republicans nominated Rep....

The War Next Door

24 Oct 2023

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Two more hostages held captive by Hamas were released on Monday, though Israel says more than 200 others are still being held by the militant group. M...

The Worst People for the Worst Job

23 Oct 2023

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Over the weekend, the first trucks containing much-needed humanitarian aid crossed into Gaza; hours later, Hamas, through the Qatari government, relea...

All Talk And No Speaker

20 Oct 2023

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Republicans have failed, again, to select a new House speaker. Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio – the far-right Republican who’s already lost two...

An All-Consuming Rage

19 Oct 2023

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President Joe Biden touched down in Israel on Wednesday in a show of support for a nation in mourning – but also warned against the human cost of be...

Biden's High-Wire Act

18 Oct 2023

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As President Biden prepared to visit Israel, a hospital in Gaza City was hit by a devastating blast Tuesday, killing at least 500 people. Hamas blamed...

Reopening Gaza's Lifeline

17 Oct 2023

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President Biden will travel to Israel tomorrow. The high-stakes visit is meant to be a show of solidarity with Israel – while also sending a message...

The Deepening Crisis in Gaza

16 Oct 2023

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As Israel continues to gear up for its anticipated ground invasion of Gaza, diplomats with the United States, Egypt, and other countries are scramblin...

The Fact of the Matter

13 Oct 2023

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel on Thursday to show support for the country, following Hamas’ attack over the weekend. He also calle...

The View From Tel Aviv

12 Oct 2023

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As Israel sends thousands of troops to the border with Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to form an emergency war cabinet wit...

Not Some Distant Tragedy

11 Oct 2023

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The devastation from the war between Israel and Hamas continues to unfold. As of Tuesday, nearly 2,000 people combined have been killed in Israel and ...

Israel Declares War on Hamas

10 Oct 2023

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At least 1,500 people have been killed in the days since Hamas, the Palestinian armed group that controls Gaza, launched a surprise attack against Isr...

SCOTUS Is Back! Term Preview from Strict Scrutiny

09 Oct 2023

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***What A Day will be back with a new episode Tuesday, October 10th***It's the start of a new Supreme Court term... and the start of Strict Scrutiny's...

Putting Alabama On The Map

06 Oct 2023

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Federal judges chose a new congressional map for Alabama on Thursday, after a major, two year legal fight. The final, court-approved map gives Black A...

Reading Is Fundamental, Honey

05 Oct 2023

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Republicans remain divided over who should lead their delicate House majority after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker. A vote for his replacement i...

Kevin Knows I'm Miserable Now

04 Oct 2023

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In an unprecedented move led by far-right Republicans, Kevin McCarthy was voted out of his job as Speaker of the House. He later said he would not see...

Introducing Laphonza Butler

03 Oct 2023

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A testy and defiant Donald Trump showed up to court yesterday in Manhattan, for the first day of his civil fraud trial. The former president called th...

Shutdown, Swerved

02 Oct 2023

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Just hours before the Saturday night deadline, a bill to fund the government through mid-November passed both chambers of Congress and was signed by P...

Shut Up Or Shut Down

29 Sep 2023

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Republicans held their first hearing Thursday in their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The six-hour hearing before the House Oversight C...

A Time For Chaos

28 Sep 2023

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The second 2024 GOP presidential debate took place yesterday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The pool of candida...

Capitalism, Explained

27 Sep 2023

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Capitalism is having a moment in our current political discourse. And believe it or not, we haven't always been so quick to openly bash – or defend ...

Pickets Down

26 Sep 2023

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The Writers Guild of America late Sunday evening announced a tentative agreement with the major studios. The Guild has said that it got most of what i...

Bob's Discount Bribery Scandal

25 Sep 2023

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New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is facing calls from fellow Democrats to resign, as he faces federal bribery charges – the second time he’s been p...

Make Way For A New Murdoch

22 Sep 2023

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington D.C. on Thursday to meet with President Biden and Senate leaders. Zelensky is trying to secu...

Going After Garland

21 Sep 2023

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Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. During the nearly six-hour hearing, pushe...

Some Assembly Required

20 Sep 2023

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the U.N. General Assembly yesterday, framing Russia’s aggression in Ukraine as a “genocide.” He...

Bye Bye, Bail

19 Sep 2023

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Five Americans detained in Iran for years are on their way back home as part of a rare agreement between the United States and Iran. In exchange, the ...

Autoworkers, Roll Out!

18 Sep 2023

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The United Auto Workers Union is on strike at all three of Detroit’s major automakers — General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis. This is the first ti...