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A CNN panel found itself in the uncommon position of ganging up on one of its own panelists after she defended the proposal of a slush fund entirely orchestrated by President Donald Trump’s handpicked board members.“I mean, I would push back on that a little bit. What you call the slush fund I call the anti-weaponization fund,” right-wing podcaster Emily Austin told the “Table for Five” panel. “I'm sure on both sides of the aisle, we all have friends whose lives have been absolutely ruined, whether they were innocent. And you said that this is going to people who as

When you’re a cultlike party leader with the power to cancel members of your own party, it’s not often you get a face-full of wrath from your angry acolytes. Your butler, however, will catch the hard feelings.“That’s how Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday described a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that’s drawn bipartisan opposition,”

Is the United States headed for a second Civil War? According to a survey of likely midterm voters published by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 57% of Americans believe it is. Sixty-nine percent say democracy is under serious threat; and an equal percentage of nonwhite voters say they fear rising white supremacy.While President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement deserve the lion’s share of blame for such findings, the Supreme Court has done its part

Life finally man-handled President Donald Trump like it typically abuses Democratic presidents: with pushback and disappointment. But don’t expect to see this brand of ego acknowledge it, says Washington Post writer Luke Broadwater.“By pretty much any estimation, President Trump has had a very bad week,” said Broadwater. “New poll numbers show his approval rating has hit a second-term low. He is weighing whether to restart a bombing campaign in an unpopular war against Iran.

Las Vegas has always had a reputation for doing things bigger, louder and glitzier than everyone else. On Sunday, May 24 2026 it continues that tradition when the inaugural Enhanced Games take place at a purpose-built entertainment centre at Resorts World, a giant hotel complex on the city’s famous strip.A one-day sports competition showcasing just three disciplines, the Enhanced Games openly embrace the use of legal performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) and technological advances that maximise human potential.Conceived by London-based entrepreneur

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, including domestic. He also took an oath to faithfully discharge the duties of office without mental reservation or purpose of evasion, meaning without trying to find loopholes to serve a different master.Because Blanche served as Trump’s personal crim

President Donald Trump’s committed bloc of grievance voters has largely made him immune to his stumbles, snafus, overt displays of hate and his seemingly bottomless racism. But there is a limit to what even the most cultlike public is willing to tolerate, and Trump has staggered past it.Mike Murphy has served as a poli

Is there a greater pleasure than watching a thundering narcissist stride proudly into his own pit? Texas conservative Nick Catoggio says he can’t wait to find out.“Specifically, I’m intrigued to see what happens to an unpopular president’s support when he starts an unpopular war that no one saw coming while struggling to resolve another unpopular war he started that no one saw coming,” Catoggio told the Dispatch.Having grown bored with the stalemate in Iran, Catoggio said a “frustrated” Donald Trump allegedly complained to advisers that the plan to

Former National Review writer Kevin D. Williamson says there just aren’t enough corruption counters to count all the corruption leeching out of the Trump White House these days.“To recap: Donald Trump has sued the Donald Trump administration over alleged wrongdoing by the Donald Trump administration, and an out-of-court settlement between Donald Trump and the Donald Trump administration will have Donald Trump’s DOJ ponying up the better part of $2 billion to be put into a fund controlled by Donald Trump and used for the benefit of — let’s check in here with dead-eyed White House trash panda J.D. Vance

A disenchanted Ex-GOP party-switcher clearly had no patience for President Donald Trump’s opportunistic jab after losing his Democratic bid for governor.Former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan lost behind former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports Trump could not wait to take to social media and kick Duncan when he was down. “It was a great time and success in Georgia on Tuesday night where Geoff Duncan, a failed Lieutenant Governor, and Disgrace to the Republican Party, ran for Governor, as a Democrat, and lost BIG — A solid 50