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October 07, 2021 11:36 PM ET Former President Donald Trump appeared on “Hannity” Thursday night and criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the ten other Republican senators who voted with Democrats to extend the debt ceiling until December. “He threw him a lifeline that they didn’t have to throw…

In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb joins to discuss how unprepared the U.S. was for COVID-19 and how he thinks the nation can prepare for future pandemics. Will Democrats get their agenda passed? | FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast I do buy that Democrats…

The ads also contain images of Swift and Youngkin and the hashtag #WeStandWithTaylor, which fans used to support the singer amid the controversy. In 2019, Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Label Group — and with it, the entire catalog Swift released via the Scott Borchetta-owned label — in a…

What does Kyrsten Sinema want? Nobody knows; she won’t say. The Arizona senator is known for living out loud in plenty of other ways—she favors patterned dresses, gaudy accessories, and profane jewelry (literally); her identity is bound up in attention-seeking hobbies (fancy wine, triathlons). But when it comes to her…

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith speaks to a reporter from One America News Network (OANN) from a bus window after a tour around a section of the U.S.-Mexico border on a Texas Highway Patrol vessel in Mission, Texas, U.S., March 26, 2021. 2/2By John Shiffman SAN…

“For Fed officials to actively trade in the market raises legitimate questions about conflicts of interest and insider trading,” the Massachusetts Democrat said Tuesday during a Senate speech. “These Fed officials actually show, at a minimum, really bad judgment.” The central bank is under fire following revelations about unusual trading activity by…

People often mislabel their apparent political opponents. It happens. But on Monday, Fox News’ Sean Hannity took that to the next level when he described one of the most famously right wing Democrats in modern history in terms that made him sound like an ally of Elizabeth Warren. So of…

Winning control of the White House apparently does strange things to people. Going back to the early 2000s, we’ve seen a Southern conservative turn into a big-government chief executive whose government spends money like a drunken sailor. A social progressive who drones the heck out of the Middle East. As…

In his usual form, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver wasted no time in catching up with Twitter’s latest laughing stock. This time, it was Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal. Last week, a video clip of Blumenthal in a Senate hearing concerning Facebook and Instagram’s effects on teenagers’ mental health went…

Kyrsten Sinema seems to have fewer friendly faces among her Democratic peers these days. The Arizona senator has taken flack from progressives, a primary challenger for her 2024 re-election bid is already in the works and she's getting lampooned on Saturday Night Live. Now she's got protesters showing up at…