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President Donald Trump, who will be turning 80 on June 14, insists that his health — both physical and mental — has never been better. But a Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll released in late April, found that 59 percent of Americans believe he lacks the mental acuity to continue serving as president. This poll, Malcolm Ferguson stresses in an article published by The New Republic, was followed by an "odd medical visit" that is rais

A district judge on Monday "put the brakes" on President Donald Trump's effort to take over a Washington D.C., public golf course, giving the most stern warning yet of "serious consequences" if the administration refuses to comply.Trump's broader obsession with remaking the nation's capital in his own image has crossed over with his golf obsession, as his administration has been attempting a federal takeover of the East Potomac Golf Course, a "popular public course," according to WUSA9 News, raising major alarms about a rumored "championship-style" makeover that local golfers fear w

President Donald Trump, who turns 80 on June 14, disappeared on Saturday for what was described as a routine "scheduled dental appointment" that wasn't previously listed on the schedule. It prompted speculation about his health, which has been questioned over the past year that he's spent in office. Then a cryptic note popped up from Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) asking her followers, "Pray for President Trump."The Daily Beast then spotted that Trump's ankles were particularly noticeable. There have been many photos of the president over the past year showing his ankles swollen, but over t

The GOP's once sure-fire odds to retain their Senate majority in the midterms are looking bleaker every day, but according to a new report from Politico, some in the party are plotting a "coup" that could save them from a complete wipeout: flipping John Fetterman, the increasingly ostracized Democratic senator.Fetterman was first elected to the Senate from Pennsylvania in 2022, besting the Trump-backed Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz and helping Democrats defy the odds and grow their majority in the chamber. Initially styling himself as a working-class progressive champion, he has since made a major shift

On Sunday, May 3, the Trump White House posted, on its X.com account, an AI-generated image depicting a smiling President Donald Trump playing the card game Uno. The text reads, "I have all the cards" — presumably a reference to the war with Iran.X is being inundated with responses to the tweet. Some are attacking the Trump White House for not understanding the rules of Uno (which means "One" in Spanish and Italian), while other X users are arguing that the Iranian regime is holding

Republican senators are publicly speaking out against their House GOP counterparts over what some see as dysfunction under the leadership of Speaker Mike Johnson. They are warning that continued infighting could damage the Republican brand and cost them during the midterms.According to The Hill, GOP senators were “dumbfounded” that House Republicans refused for weeks to pass the Senate’s Homeland Security appropriations bill, legislation that was supported by President Donald Trump. “Republican senators across the political spectrum say they fear the Spe

President Donald Trump's second term was supposed to leave behind an heir to the MAGA movement, but the vice president's chances for that may be slipping away. According to MS NOW political analyst Matthew Bartlett, JD Vance is not winning supporters. The young, energetic ex-internet influencer is prompting "surprising" comments from MAGA: "JD Vance sucks." Writing on Monday, Bartlett said that it isn't unusual to hear negative remarks from Democrats about Vance, but more and more, the sentiment is coming from conservative circles as well. Behind the scenes, Trump is

Far-right Christian nationalists, from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to The Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts to Pastor Doug Wilson, are claiming that the United States was designed to be a "Christian nation." This isn't a new argument: the late Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr., founder of Liberty University and the Moral Majority, claimed, during the 1980s, that the "separation of church and state" argument was designed by Satan to keep Christians from running their country.Hegseth, Roberts and Wilson are claiming that the United States' Founding Fathers envisioned a governmen

Apologists of President Donald Trump were losing their minds overnight after Justice Department lawyers were found to have misled the court by a presiding judge. Politico's Kyle Cheney noted that Judge Ana C. Reyes, in the U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia, told the DOJ to be on hand at an 8 a.m. hearing and wanted a written response from them at 7:30 a.m. in a case around "major redevelopment" of Washington, D.C. golf courses that Trump seized. The National Links Trust was cast aside after Trump's administration seized control of the three p

In 2026, right-wing media have been full of reporting on an alleged Christian fundamentalist revival among young Generation Z men — who, they claim, are going to evangelical churches in big numbers. Many of these reports also claim that Gen-Z men are searching for "tradwives" who reject feminism, wear old-fashioned attire (including prairie dresses) and are determined to be stay-at-home moms.But Salon's Amanda Marcotte, in article published on May 4, argues that this "Christian revival" among Gen-Z men is a myth."Are young men rushing back to church in record numbers?" Marcotte writes