The Trump Media and Technology Group is merging with a blank-check company to form a home for Truth Social and a “non-woke” streaming platform.
Category: Politics
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Biden’s favorite stat — that 55 major corporations paid no federal income tax
The president says this over and over. But the number is not based on an examination of tax returns.
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Trump’s social-media site aims to be the politically incorrect safe space he’d promised
The MAGA dream was always that the old rules would once again apply.
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A few idealistic Canadians are trying to replant the world’s forests with flying machines
The battle against climate change can be waged with sober policymaking, an engaged citizenry and corporate responsibility. It also, it turns out, can be fought by a few hipster Millennials with flying machines.
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Former president Bill Clinton, home from the hospital, vows to keep going for a ‘long, long time’
The 75-year-old Clinton was admitted to UC-Irvine Medical Center last week for sepsis and was discharged Sunday.
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Pranksters have already defaced Trump’s new social network
The site, Truth Social, said it reserves the right to ban users and safeguard itself from lawsuits with Section 230 protections — the same measures Trump has complained about during his long and bitter battle with Big Tech.
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House is poised to vote to hold Bannon in contempt for refusing to comply with Jan. 6 subpoena
The former White House chief strategist has argued through his attorney that he can’t respond to the subpoena because of executive privilege asserted by former president Donald Trump.
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The Joe Manchin party-switch question
Regardless of how real the possibility is, it reinforces Manchin’s leverage in his relationship with his party — whether Democrats want to acknowledge that or not.
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Texas says Supreme Court should leave in place controversial abortion law
But if justices take up the issue, they should overturn the constitutional right to abortion, it said.
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Biden town hall live updates: Biden to field questions at town hall, as negotiations over agenda are at key juncture
Anderson Cooper will moderate a town hall with President Biden in Baltimore that airs on CNN at 8 p.m.
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Mitch McConnell’s resignation to Trumpism
Embracing Trump’s false election claims has become the defining feature of base Republican politics, and there’s not much the Senate minority leader can or is willing to do about it.
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Fox News polling shows that Fox News rhetoric works
Republicans are twice as worried about what’s being taught in schools as they are about the pandemic.
