MadAboutPolitics.com - Featured News

Featured News

Today's Top News Compilation - Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Latest Posts from our Message Boards

Latest Political News Feed

Wisconsin's Gov. Tony Evers says he won't seek third term

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
Wisconsin's Democratic governor, Tony Evers, announced Thursday that he will not seek a third term in 2026, creating the first open race for governor in the battleground state in 16 years.

It will be Wisconsin's highest profile race next year, as Democrats also angle to take control of the Legislature thanks to redrawn election maps that are friendlier to the party. They are also targeting two congressional districts as Democrats nationwide try to retake the House.

The Legislature has been under Republican control since 2011, and some Democrats had...
Continue reading...

Student suspended for saying 'illegal aliens' in class gets cash, apology from school

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
A school district in North Carolina has been ordered to admit their mistake, issue an apology, fork over $20,000, and more after they were sued for suspending a 16-year-old student who used the term "illegal aliens."

The settlement was approved on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, following a year-long legal battle after a 16-year-old student and his parents sued Davidson County Schools for the mischaracterization of racial bias and violation of the student's First Amendment rights.

"Although the parties...
Continue reading...

Epstein files divide House Republicans in growing 'summer of discontent'

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
William Shakespeare wrote about "the winter of our discontent" in Richard III. The line which follows that famous quotation suggests a grim winter morphed into a "glorious summer" and that "the clouds" are now "in the deep bosom of the ocean buried."

Well, that "glorious summer" may have dissipated for House Republicans.

2025 is now the summer of discontent. The party is cleaved over the Epstein files.

Or, as the Bard might say, "To release or not to release. That is the question."

‘CLEAR CORRUPTION’: JEFFRIES FACES COMPLAINT FOR PRESSING JUDGES...
Continue reading...

White House sends mixed signals in Russia 'hoax' blame game

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
The White House is claiming that Russia was attempting to sow "distrust and chaos," even as reports from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence suggest the Obama administration "manipulated" Russian interference to undercut Trump’s win in 2016.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about whether Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s position when he led the Senate Intelligence Committee fell in line with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's new findings.

"He said what they found is troubling," Leavitt said, while...
Continue reading...

One in five children in Gaza is malnourished, UN aid agency says

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
The UN agency for Palestinians says it has thousands of truckloads of supplies near Gaza which it wants to deliver.
Continue reading...

'I can barely do one story. I just feel dizzy' - BBC's Gaza freelance journalists tell of struggle for food

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
Three freelance journalists working for the BBC in Gaza are facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering.
Continue reading...

We might get killed, but we have to get food, injured Gazan tells BBC

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
Many patients brought to UK-Med's Gaza field hospital were seeking food aid but found only violence.
Continue reading...

Social Security backs away from plan to eliminate paper checks

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
The Social Security Administration said it will continue issuing paper checks to the retirement program's beneficiaries, backing away from a previously announced plan to switch all payments to electronic deposits after Sept. 30.

On Wednesday, the Social Security Administration told CBS MoneyWatch it would continue issuing paper checks for beneficiaries who have no other means of receiving payments. But the program will also emphasize the advantages of electronic transfers to its roughly 70 million beneficiaries in an effort to encourage check...
Continue reading...

Ex-Biden chief of staff giving 'credible' answers in House Oversight cover-up probe, lawmakers say

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 5
Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain is cooperating with congressional investigators seeking information into former President Joe Biden's mental health during his time in office, a pair of lawmakers suggested Thursday.

Klain, who ran Biden's White House for the first two years of his term, is currently sitting down with staff on the House Oversight Committee as part of Chair James Comer's probe into whether top administration aides covered up signs of decline in the former president while he was in office.

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told...
Continue reading...

'Star Wars bar of leftists': Weingarten, Hunter, Mamdani prove Democratic Party led by extreme figures

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 4
The prominence within the Democratic Party of AFT union boss Randi Weingarten, New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani and Hunter Biden proves it is being led by "a Star Wars bar of leftists," Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said Wednesday.

Weingarten's appearance with democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., at an event midday Thursday, the viral Hunter Biden interview broadcast over the weekend, and Mamdani's upset of more moderate former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral primary show Democrats...
Continue reading...

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan once called Trump the 'toughest of them all' at Republican National Convention

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 3
Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan died Thursday at the age of 71 in Florida after being hospitalized in the morning for cardiac arrest, according to TMZ Sports.

Hogan, who revolutionized the world of wrestling and attracted interest in the sport that was ultimately dubbed "Hulkamania" in the 1980s, appeared at the Republican National Convention in July 2024 to endorse then-presidental candidate Donald Trump.

"As an entertainer, I try to stay out of politics," Hogan said. "But after everything that’s happened to our country over the past four years...
Continue reading...

Senate Republican demands state, federal courts 'immediately unseal all' Epstein docs

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 4
FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican wants to see all court documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein unsealed in a bid to see if Democrats are serious about shedding light on the situation.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., plans to introduce a resolution on Thursday that would call on federal and state courts to "immediately unseal all materials, including grand jury materials" that were part of any criminal investigation or prosecution of Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

'NOT GOING AWAY': INSIDE THE EPSTEIN...
Continue reading...

Trump-foe Adam Schiff dismisses Tulsi Gabbard's declassified Russia collusion intelligence as 'dishonest'

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 4
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is throwing cold water on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's assertion about the Obama administration's role in pushing the Trump-Russia collusion narrative during the 2016 presidential election.

Gabbard has declassified documents, including a House Intelligence Committee memo, alleging that former President Barack Obama and his national security team "manufactured an Intelligence Community Assessment they knew was false."

"I think what Gabbard and her staff are doing is dishonest and misstated, and I'll...
Continue reading...

Messaging war over Trump's 'big beautiful bill' heats up between Democrats, Republicans

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 4
EXCLUSIVE – As he looks ahead to next year's midterm elections, when the Democrats try to win back majorities in the House and Senate, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin is targeting the Republicans' so-called "big, beautiful bill."

"We welcome the debate, because this is the debate that's going to actually help us as a Democratic Party, build our coalition again and win elections," the DNC chair said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital.

Martin's rival, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Whatley, told...
Continue reading...

Trump says he wants Elon Musk to 'thrive' after suggesting DOGE could investigate him

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 3
President Donald Trump said he wants Elon Musk to "thrive" just weeks after he suggested the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could investigate him.

In a post on Truth Social, the president said, "Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon’s companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large-scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government. This is not so!

"I want Elon, and all businesses within our Country, to THRIVE, in fact, THRIVE like never before! The better they do, the better the USA does, and that’s good for all of...
Continue reading...

General News Feed

Fact Checkers News Feed

Back
Top Bottom