Politics

Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer (R) announced Monday that he will challenge incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) should organizers collect the 1.5 million signatures by March 17 required to put a recall election on the ballot.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Charles Barkley both agree on one thing: NBA players should receive the coronavirus vaccine before anyone else.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” White House Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein stated that there is a “whole cohort of kids” whose lifetime earnings will be reduced if they miss a year of school and

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday lauded House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) in the wake of her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump, calling the congresswoman an “important leader” with the courage to act on “deep convictions.”

Joe Biden met with ten Republican senators at the White House on Monday to discuss a bipartisan coronavirus relief package. “I wouldn’t say that we came together on a package tonight. Nobody expected that in a two-hour meeting.”

Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson on Monday during MSNBC’s “The Beat,” accused the Republican Party of attempting “to veto the right of black people’s access” to voting.

During his State of the State Address on Monday night, Texas Governor Greg Abbott pledged to “fortify” the state’s border security efforts. The statement follows actions by the new administration of President Joe Biden to end the construction of border wall systems and other policies leading to an unsecured border.

What began as an afternoon anti-police protest in Rochester, New York, turned violent Monday evening. Chanting protesters began overturning police barricades to get to the station.

Texas lawmakers have introduced legislation to protect girls and women who participate in sports from transgender competition.

Police in Russia detained thousands of protesters across the country on Sunday for participating in the second week of unauthorized rallies demanding the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny from jail.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alejandro Mayokras, has dodged questions about his intervention as head of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to help wealthy foreign nationals secure EB-5 visas, a letter entered into the Senate record claims.

The Lincoln Project, a left-wing super PAC, spent the entirety of its political advertising budget to assist Democrats, despite its founders and directors marketing themselves as conservative Republicans.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) Monday on his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz” criticized former President Donald Trump for his rhetoric about the election.

Thousands rallied Saturday in Lansing, Michigan, as Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer once again postponed the state’s school sports programs.

The states of West Virginia, Alaska, and South Dakota have the best records for administering COVID-19 vaccines so far, according to data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

A Republican group has launched a massive billboard campaign calling on several GOP lawmakers to resign following the violence at the Capitol on January 6.

The Pentagon on Saturday announced it would pause a plan to vaccinate Guantanamo Bay detainees, after backlash from Americans unable to get the coronavirus vaccine.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) said the Senate is forming a financial innovations caucus aimed at educating senators and staff members about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. 

A senior adviser Biden administration official accused health care providers of stockpiling vaccine doses and keeping them in reserve.

On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) stated that we need coronavirus relief urgently, and “if we actually throw away some money right now, so what?” Justice said, “[W]e need to understand that trying to be per

Two GOP Senators from opposite ends of the GOP’s political spectrum are urging President Joe Biden and his staff to preserve the job-protecting, life-protecting “Remain in Mexico” program.

About 100 House Democrats are urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to include an amnesty for certain subgroups of illegal aliens in a relief package for Americans impacted by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

After four years of mocking President Donald Trump, “Saturday Night Live” apparently could not find anything funny to say about Joe Biden, and ignored the president when the NBC sketch comedy show returned this weekend.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece, Meena Harris, has reportedly stopped selling clothing bearing her aunt’s name, according to Fox News.

In a shocking statement, anti-Trump Hollywood star Sophia Bush is advocating for labelling Republicans as terrorists, seconding Rep. Jackie Speier’s (D-CA) recent use of the term “the terrorist right” to describe the GOP.

Over three-quarters of likely U.S. voters say Americans are “less tolerant” of each others’ varying political opinions despite President Biden’s initial calls for unity, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found. 

Monday on FBN’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) ripped President Joe Biden for his spree of executive orders and memoranda while claiming to be willing to working with Republicans in the name of bipartisanship.

Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove on Monday said he has known about Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver’s “pattern of behavior” since 1988 following a bombshell report in which Weaver was accused of sending unwanted sexually explicit messages to nearly two dozen young men.

Activists are pressing President Joe Biden to tear down portions of the southern border wall to create pathways for wildlife.

Nonvoters and registered Democrats were among those who were arrested at the January 6 Capitol protest, an analysis of voting records show.

Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) paid off her campaign debt from her congressional bid by using corporate PACs donations after she pledged not to take donations from those PACs.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said in a statement Monday the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus proposal amounts to nothing more than payback to liberal states that helped Democrats during the recent elections.

Planned Parenthood facilities in Texas will no longer receive taxpayer funds through the Medicaid program beginning February 3.

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) Monday on MSNBC’s “Live” said he is launching a political action committee (PAC) to challenge leadership in the Republican Party still aligned with the former president Donald Trump because the GOP has to stop “trying to appeal more to the Proud Boys than to suburban moms.”

A fund that provides bonds for violent criminals in Minneapolis bailed out a man twice since October. The man now faces new felony charges. The Minnesota Freedom Fund received praise from then VP candidate Kamala Harris and other members of President Joe Biden’s team during the 2020 campaign.

Psaki said that decisions on censorship and banning individuals from Twitter was “a decision made by Twitter.”