alternet.org

Vivek Ramaswamy, the 2026 Republican candidate for governor in Ohio, is facing heavy criticism after a clip resurfaced on Monday of him making a racist comment to explain his opposition to abortion.“A Black baby is probably safer…in the inner city of Chicago, than in the womb of his own Black mother,” Ramaswamy said in a clip shared by the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Governors Association and the group Headquarters. The story was first reported by theGrio.In the clip Ramaswamy added, “And I think that that’s actually a problem, and it’s directly the product of what Margaret

The brewing battle to succeed President Donald Trump in the White House is shaping up to be anything but simple, and according to a new breakdown from The i Paper, Trump himself is meddling in the process because it makes for "good television."Vice President JD Vance has long been considered the default favorite for the 2028 GOP presidential nomination, but a number of factors, including his own historic unpopularity, are complicating the eas

President Donald Trump's long-running obsession with annexing Greenland is not about to get any closer to reality, per Politico, as the Danish leader who consistently snubbed his demands has retained power going forward.On Monday, Politico reported that Mette Frederiksen will remain prime minister of Denmark for the foreseeable future. This came after "drawn-out negotiations lasting more than two months" for the creation of a new government, culminating in the creation of "center-left coalition government.""The four-party coalition is expected to bring together Frederiksen’s Social Democrats, the Moderates, Green Left and the Socia

The Department of Defense is facing sharp criticism over its latest policy that bans reporters from the Pentagon press office, which it has now designated as a classified space.“The change creates a new barrier compared with previous administrations, under which the office was an open room where reporters could stop by the desks of military public affairs officials without escorts,” The Washington Post reports.“The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility due to speechwriters from the Of

On Monday, it was announced that President Donald Trump will drop his $1.8 billion slush fund, with sources saying, “It’s dead for now.” As some experts are pointing out, however, that “for now” could mean something, and Senate Republicans may still have to take action to prevent the administration from giving the fund another try. “They disagree with the ruling, but ‘will abide’ by it,” posted Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman over a retweet of

One of President Donald Trump’s former advisers told AlterNet on Monday that, although he had hoped to receive compensation from the temporarily-cancelled $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, he believes the president made an early mistake which would have made the fund unnecessary.“Trump had the full authority to fire Mueller,” Sam Nunberg, a political advisor to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign who was subpoenaed for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, told AlterNet. “Frankly, he should have done it during the transition — he was advised to, and he didn't. And there was no conspiracy or collusion with the Russians. So it

President Donald Trump is low on options to sell the war that most voters already see as a "disaster," and as one former naval officer wrote for The Hill, the last option he is stuck with now is to try and "spin the narrative" in his own favor.Beyond his naval service, Harlan Ullman has had an extensive career in the realms of policy and business, with The Hill crediting him as "UPI’s Arnaud deBorchgrave Distinguished Columnist, a senior adviser at the Atlantic Council, the chairman of two private companies and the principal author of the doctrine of shock and awe." On Monday, he published a new column for

A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order against the National Park Service, ordering it to not interfere with a group that had been flying an “8647” flag in Washington, D.C. Common restaurant slang for “eighty-six” goes back nearly a century, the judge noted, saying that it meant “to throw out” or “to get rid of.”U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss issued the two-week restraining order at the request of Accountability Now USA, an anti-Trump group that had been protesting the president “for months at a site in front of the federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue,”

Russia is now bombing NATO countries, and it appears that President Donald Trump is asleep at the wheel. Writing on Monday, MS NOW producer Steve Benen sounded the alarm about an incoming disaster visible on the horizon. A Wall Street Journal report last week quoted several world leaders in Europe as saying that they fear Russian President Vladimir Putin is about to go beyond Ukraine and look at the countries he can go to war with next in an effort to grow the for

As President Donald Trump began his takeover of the Justice Department, it was revealed that anyone who touched any part of the investigations into him would be fired. The purge of prosecutors began. But it also extended into the FBI. While a group of DOJ lawyers came together to help each other, those fired from the FBI are now doing the same. The New York Times reported on Monday that the FBI Support Network was established as a kind of "offshoot of the Justice Conn