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The White House is facing sharp criticism over its latest message to young voters who cast a ballot for President Donald Trump based on specific campaign promises.Journalist Gabe Fleischer told White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday that in his reporting, he speaks a lot to young voters, "many of whom voted for President Trump for the first time in 2024, who were hoping to have no more wars and to have lower prices.""Now, with a war taking place, and with gas prices going up, I'm curious what President Trump's message would be to those voters who kind of swung into his coalition in 2024, but maybe don't feel the administration's going as they'd expected."Leavitt did not pause before

Notus reports that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp keeps dishing up disappointment for Republicans.“Heading into the midterms, Republicans thought Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was their best chance to beat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff,” reports Notus. “But Kemp declined to run, and is now, much to the befuddlement of national Republicans, supporting a candidate who is in a distant third and could likely force the GOP primary into an expensive runoff.”Kemp initially agreed to work with the National Republican Senatorial Committee to find the right candidate to take on the p

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Or.) placed a hold on the promotions of three members of the military, noting that they have a troubling history of civilian slayings. Wyden entered into the Congressional record the specifics of the three men that President Donald Trump wants to promote, captured Punch Bowl News reporter Anthony Adragna. In his "notice of intent to object," Wyden explained that Lt. Col. Vincent Noble was in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, in March 2007 when he "took part in the killings of 19 Afghan civilians, firing indiscriminately at civilian vehicles

Margaret Ryan, the top enforcement official at the Securities and Exchange Commission — the agency tasked with investigating insider trading and other illegal activities in financial markets — abruptly resigned last week, after just six months on the job. Reportedly, Ryan wanted to be more aggressive in pursuing charges of fraud and other misconduct, including against Trump’s inner circle. But the SEC’s chairman, Paul Atkins, and other Republican appointees to the commission wouldn’t let her. When Trump appointed

Within Christianity, talk of Armageddon is especially prominent among far-right evangelical fundamentalists — many of whom are obsessed with the New Testament's Book of Revelation. Mainline Protestants and Catholics also read the Book of Revelation, but not in the obsessive way that evangelical fundamentalists and white Christian nationalists do. And they don't have the evangelical fixation on Armadgeddon and the End Times.But in an op-ed published by The Hill on March 25, researcher John Mac Ghlionn observes that fear of Doomsday is growing among Americans who aren't necessarily En

President Donald Trump's potential plan to deploy his own personal army could be doomed to fail, with one CNN reporter revealing that numerous experts have said it "would not hold up in court."Trump's MAGA allies have recently suggested that his decision to deploy federal immigration agents to airports dealing with TSA staffing shortages is a trial run for deploying the same agents to polling places during midterm voting in November. Steve Bannon, the one-time adviser to the president and prominent MAGA advocate,

The Trump Administration’s messaging on the war on Iran has been muddled since it began at the end of February, with President Donald Trump and various officials offering wide-ranging, often contradictory justifications. As it became clear that the war was impacting the economy negatively and angering voters, the administration began scrambling to draw up a timeline for the war. Still, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has claimed there was no “timefr

U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is once again under fire — this time for his vote confirming Markwayne Mullin to become the Homeland Security Secretary — and among his critics are those who helped send him to Capitol Hill.“John promised that he was going to go to D.C. and be Democrats’ 51st vote. And instead he’s gone to D.C. and is behaving like Donald Trump’s f—— intern,” Pennsylvania Democratic State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta told

Once known as an unpredictable swing state that former President Barack Obama carried in both 2008 and 2012, Florida has turned increasingly Republican in recent years and become a major source of frustration for Democrats. Gov. Ron DeSantis ran a far-right campaign and was reelected by roughly 19 percent in the 2022 midterms; then, in 2024, Donald Trump defeated Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Florida by roughly 13 percent.Republicans have been seriously dominating Florida politics. But on Tuesday night, March 24, two Democrats prevailed in special elections for Florida House of Representatives seats in GOP-friendly districts: Brian Nathan in t

First lady Melania Trump was at the White House for a rare appearance on Wednesday, where she touted an AI robot that could replace teachers. It was the second day of the Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit when the first lady entered the room with the humanoid robot. The press pool report for the first lady read, "Melania Trump entered the East Room at 11:14 am. A robot led her into the room, to great applause."The summit focuses on delivering global access to education, with representatives from 45 nations. The moment was ripe for mockery and the internet provided, noting that the two were the same.