Politics

Republican members of Congress, Fox News personalities and other prominent right-wing figures are falsely claiming that President Joe Biden is trying to force Americans to eat far less red meat. “Joe Biden’s climate plan includes cutting 90% of red meat from our diets by 2030. They want to limit us to about four pounds a

A Fox News anchor admitted on air on Monday that his show was inaccurate when it claimed on Friday that President Joe Biden is trying to require Americans to sharply reduce their consumption of red meat. John Roberts, co-host of the afternoon show “America Reports,” made the Monday concession after CNN and other media outlets

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a 20-week abortion ban and two other anti-abortion bills into law on Monday, adding to the slew of such measures advanced by Republican state lawmakers as the Biden administration seeks to unwind restrictions on the procedure. “Today we’re taking action to protect the most vulnerable amongst us, the unborn —

The White House is reconsidering raising the number of refugees allowed into the US to about 62,500, its original goal, The Washington Post reported Monday. The move comes after the White House publicly shifted the figure several times as it tries to negotiate a balance between pleasing immigrant advocacy groups and being mindful of the

Donald Trump schooled his protégés well in his politics of down-in-the-muck misinformation. The ex-President’s Washington devotees and media backers are proving they don’t need him in the White House or blazing away on Twitter to stir his stew of lies, false realities, assaults on democracy, circus politics and racial grievance. The test of their approach

There has been a major coronavirus outbreak among US diplomatic staff in India with two locally employed staff dying and more than 100 people testing positive in recent weeks as the country struggles to cope with a dramatic surge of the deadly disease, two sources familiar with the situation told CNN. Reported Covid-19 case rates

Lawyers for a man photographed sitting at a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the January 6 riot at the US Capitol are arguing that he called her a “biatch,” not a “b*tch,” in calling for his release. “This written note, however, says, ‘Hey Nancy Bigo was here biatd.’ It does not say

President Joe Biden is moving fast. Like, really fast. And his speed and leftward orientation are bringing a previously fractured Republican Party back together. It is vital, of course, for the GOP to offer a unified front and reasonable, competing, governing narrative to the American people ahead of 2022’s midterm elections. If Biden were governing

Over the last year, more than more than 90 anti-protest bills have been introduced in at least 36 states. These bills were introduced after a summer of historic expression, in which millions of people joined together to condemn the killing of Black people by the police. This wave of legislation isn’t a response to any

New York state came just 89 residents short of maintaining all of its congressional districts, Census Bureau officials said Monday, and will now lose one of its House seats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections and an Electoral College vote as a result of the agency’s count. A Democratic stronghold in Congress, New York joins

The Department of Homeland Security on Monday launched an internal review to address the threat of domestic violent extremism within the department, as officials have become increasingly focused on preventing domestic-inspired terrorism. It’s unclear what, if any, internal issues at the department prompted this review, which will be led by department’s chief security officer. The