Politics

During a Monday deposition the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre described staying on a friend’s yacht as a way of securing safety in the aftermath of mass shootings in the U.S.

The Democrats’ campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), is narrowing the seats they are looking to target in order for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to widen her majority in the House.

Former TV reality star Caitlyn Jenner is reportedly exploring a run for California governor as Dem. Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a recall effort.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday ripped CBS News’ 60 Minutes report accusing him of wrongdoing regarding his state’s vaccine rollout, calling it a “piece of horse manure.”

President Joe Biden deferred to managers of the Masters golf tournament when asked Tuesday if he thought they should boycott the state of Georgia in protest of their new election security laws. “That’s up to the Masters,” Biden replied, when

The Arkansas State Legislature has overridden Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s (R) veto Tuesday on sex-reassignment surgeries for minors, rendering certain transgender procedures illegal in the state 90 days after April 30. 

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America Reports” that President Joe Biden’s lie about the new Georgia voting law was hurting the majority Black city of Atlanta because Major League Baseball moved the All-Star game after the president’s encouragement.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) said Tuesday that House Democrats are on “defense” due to their advocacy for open borders, closed schools, and higher taxes.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has surfaced as one of the only Democrat defenders of the filibuster, having to reject claims from her own party to persuade in eliminating the 60-vote requirement in order to advance most pieces of legislation.

The risk of contracting the Chinese coronavirus from a contaminated surface remains “low,” according to an April 5 science brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

White House press secretary Jen Psaki downplayed government support for a vaccine passport system Tuesday, asserting the administration does not support requiring Americans to carry a vaccine credential.

Major League Baseball’s Coors Field in Denver is named after a founder of the Heritage Foundation, Joseph Coors, the former president of Coors Brewing Company who died in 2003.

The Ministry of Foreign Relations (Minrex) of Cuba confirmed Monday that it had summoned the top American diplomat in the country, Embassy Chargé d’Affairs Timothy Zúñiga-Brown, to protest “flagrant and systematic violations of human rights in the United States.”

Appearing Monday on the Fox News Channel, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) called Stacey Abrams the “biggest flip-flopper since John Kerry” over her stance on corporations boycotting her home state’s voter integrity law.

Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, said in a statement Monday that Democrats are running through partisan legislation through Congress with reconciliation despite President Joe Biden’s rhetoric about “unity.”

A woman who initially filed an anonymous sexual misconduct lawsuit against Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson has now stepped forward.

Pennsylvania Republican Kathy Barnette announced Tuesday that she is “running to become the first Black Republican Woman elected to the US Senate.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday once again criticized corporate America for wading into hot button political issues. 

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) questioned Major League Baseball’s (MLB) decision to pull its All-Star game and Draft from Atlanta over the state’s election integrity law, inquiring why MLB continues to do business in Communist China which embraces a hierarchal electoral system of voting, barring any meaningful elections. 

A Democrat consultant said Tuesday that Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI), who represented Wisconsin’s third district for two decades, lacks the “cajones” to run for higher office.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Tuesday came out against a “state-mandated vaccine passport” as a means to verify whether or not an individual has been inoculated against the coronavirus.

State Sen. Amanda Chase’s “Trump in Heels” persona, which emerged as she decided to run for governor, runs contradictory to past remarks she has made.

60 Minutes, the long-disgraced news magazine at far-left CBS, has “gone dark” with a now-debunked hoax it launched to smear Gov. Ron DeSantis.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended Tuesday the strength of the Southern border after two suspected terrorists were apprehended after crossing into the United States through Mexico. “First let me convey that these sets of incidents are very uncommon,”

Former Georgia Rep. Doug Collins wrote in an op-ed Tuesday, Major League Baseball (MLB) owes Georgia an apology for moving the All-Star game out of Georgia and listening to Stacey Abrams.

80 New Hampshire businesses say a bill preventing teaching that America is inherently racist would be bad for business in the state.

Marvel’s “Avengers” star Benedict Cumberbatch says he wants President Joe Biden to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center after working on the film The Mauritanian.

iHeartRadio announced in a press release Tuesday that Clinton, the daughter of president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, will launch the In Fact with Chelsea Clinton podcast April 13.

Nearly three-quarters of black voters believe voter ID is necessary to ensure a “fair and secure election process,” a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday found.

Job openings in the retail trade sector rose in February, according to data from the Department of Labor’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. In January, employers posted 793,000 help wanted notices. These rose to 817,000 in February.

But the number of hires actually fell in February, the second straight monthly decline.

In other words, the number of people retail businesses want to hire is rising. But the number of workers accepting jobs in retail trade is falling.