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A top Republican strategist has a warning for President Donald Trump and the rest of his party: All of their gerrymandering may hurt them in the end instead of helping them.Speaking with “Sunday Night in America” host Trey Gowdy on Sunday, former President George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove explained that his party’s push to redistrict all over America could backfire on them and may not even help them retain control of the House of Representatives.“You could in essence take … like here in Texas, take big cities, which are typically Democrat, and split them up among several sort of suburban and rur

In 2022, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Republicans attacked then-President Joe Biden relentlessly over gas prices. Biden was a vehement critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and many Republicans blamed his foreign policy when gas prices went up.But two and one-half months into his war against Iran, President Donald Trump is arguing that higher gas prices are a small price to pay for preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon. And according to NOTUS reporters Daniella Diaz and Al Weaver, many other Republicans

A Republican lawmaker has been caught on tape agreeing to a racist remark directed at House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in which he was referred to as having "cotton-picking hands."Jeffries, the House Minority Leader since taking over from Nancy Pelosi, has been outspoken in response to the Virginia Supreme Court's latest ruling, shooting down a new congressional map designed to create four new Democratic seats. The effort, approved by the state's voters in a special ballot measure, was undertaken in order to counteract gerrymandering campaigns done in red states at the behest of Pres

Scott Jennings, the resident MAGA Republican pundit at CNN, was backed into a corner during a Monday panel discussion, getting pressed about the Department of Defense's latest attack against a Democratic senator while attempting to attack said lawmaker as publicity-seeking.Over the weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for a renewed investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, for allegedly disclosing classified information during a televised interview with CBS News's Face the Nation, where he said it was "shocking" how deeply the U

The conservative justices on the Supreme Court have gotten notably defensive in the wake of their growing list of rulings in President Donald Trump's favor, but despite their protests, a legal scholar argued for The Hill that one justice's own words revealed that they are, in fact, "a bunch of partisan hacks," only interested in rulings that "Make Republicans win."Steven Lubet is a professor emeritus at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. On Monday, he published an op-ed for The Hill high

According to new reporting from the Washington Post, officials in President Donald Trump’s administration are “sharply split” over who will control the future of artificial intelligence security. The fight pits officials from the Commerce Department against those in national security in what one insider described as a “knife fight” over which part of the government will oversee a technology that could have profound implications for the economy and global security. The argument ramped up recently as the White House grapples with emerging cybersecurity threats posed by new advanced AI models that will make hackers more dang

President Donald Trump ran for president in 2024 in part by promising to make necessities more affordable for ordinary Americans — but a recent report suggests his policies are doing exactly the opposite.“As the White House seeks to lower costs ahead of the midterms, housing lenders and state agencies are raising concerns that administration officials could soon wind down a program that has so far helped finance more than 56,000 affordable rentals at no cost to taxpayers,” reported Semafor’s Eleanor Mueller on Monday. Because the White House’s fiscal 2027 bu

Claiming President Donald Trump was “wrongfully accused” when he was impeached, twice, based on “withheld” and “false” information, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is leading a move to have both impeachments expunged.“The fact is that the Constitution doesn’t spell out what to do when you’ve wrongfully indicted somebody,” Issa told Fox News. “An impeachment is basically an indictment and it’s an indictment that you can’t really be acquitted from. If you are impeached by the House, famously where do you go to get your reputation back, is the question.” Not only does Rep. Iss

HBO host Bill Maher and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) think that the proposal to use $1 billion of taxpayer dollars for a White House ballroom is the kind of easy money found between America's couch cushions. Speaking on the Club Random podcast Monday, Fetterman and Maher blasted the debate over the centuries-old historic building as "so stupid," The Independent noticed. Legal battles have persisted over the construction since President Donald Trump pledged that the White House wouldn't be "touched" in the building process and then claimed the construction would only cost $200 million and would be paid for by businesses and billionaires, not on the taxpayer dime. Fetterman even wen

By many accounts, during his first term, President Donald Trump botched the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the latest hantavirus outbreak has some worrying the same thing could happen again if there is another Trump pandemic.Miles Taylor, the Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff during the first Trump administration is out with a stern warning, offering three reasons why Americans “won’t survive another Trump pandemic.” Under President Trump, the U.S. response to COVID resulted in far higher infection rates and