Politics

Andrew Cuomo has been criminally charged with groping a former aide, Lucian Chalfen, a spokesperson for the Albany City Court confirmed to several outlets on Thursday. “A misdemeanor complaint was filed in Albany City Court against the former governor this afternoon,” Chalfen said. Brittany Commisso filed a complaint with the …

Facebook has had a rough couple of months. It started in early September when The Wall Street Journal began publishing a series of reports based on tens of thousands of internal documents a whistle-blower named Frances Haugen had turned over to the paper. “The Facebook Files,” as the stories were …

Donald Trump isn’t known for his respect for the dead. He continued to publicly bash John McCain after the Republican stalwart died in 2018. He attacked Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) in 2019 by implying her late husband John Dingell is in hell. Now, the former president is lashing out at …

Sen. John Kennedy went on Fox News on Thursday to make it perfectly clear that he knows how effective and important the covid-19 vaccines are. He also made it perfectly clear that that knowledge won’t stop him from cravenly caving to his party’s anti-vax fanaticism. Asked about rising Covid-19 cases, …

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) slept on the steps of the Capitol Friday night. The congresswoman—accompanied by fellow Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and activists—spent the night on the Capitol steps to bring attention to the millions of Americans who face eviction if a moratorium implemented by the CDC …

Anthony Fauci said the truth is what did him in with the bomb-throwers on the right because he dared to contradict a lying president during the height of a global pandemic. During a Friday interview on Fox News, the White House’s chief medical adviser was asked about the recent attacks …

Hypocrisy, spreading lies, and fear-mongering are all well-known staples over at Fox. But Monday’s news about how Fox Corporation has already implemented a vaccine passport-type program for its own employees that is similar to what hosts like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have loudly railed against is a window into …

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has said a lot of wild things about the Capitol riot—refusing to investigate it, calling it a “peaceful protest” and saying that that he would have been more concerned if the attackers were from Black Lives Matter or antifa—and a new progressive ad campaign is calling …

A “small number” of the retired members of the Colombian military arrested last week in connection with the assassination of Haiti’s president were trained by the U.S. military, the Pentagon said Thursday. In a statement to the Washington Post, Pentagon spokesperson Lt. Col. Ken Hoffman said, “A review of our …

Dr. Anthony Fauci said the crowd’s positive reaction to the dangerous anti-vaccine message emanating from the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas this weekend was “horrifying” and “frightening.” On Sunday, CNN’s Jake Tapper showed Biden’s chief medical adviser a video clip from CPAC where the crowd loudly …