Progressive search for action

10+ min ago (216+ words) Erika Kirk, the widow to the assassinated MAGA commentator Charlie Kirk, was put on the spot late Saturday night when she was confronted by the last man to speak to Kirk, and was asked to condemn actions made by Donald Trump. Appearing on a CBS News town hall, Hunter Kozak, the Utah student who asked Charlie Kirk the last question he was ever asked at a campus event where the shooting ultimately occurred, stood up to ask Kirk to encourage the president to turn down the temperature as it relates to political violence. After saying he appreciates Erika Kirk's calls for peace, Kozak said Trump is "the most powerful and influential person on earth," and then brought up the president's desire to put lawmakers to death for a video they made. "Will you condemn the violent rhetoric of Donald Trump?...

22+ min ago (403+ words) The chair of a major Republican Party committee in Georgia is sounding the alarm that President Donald Trump's messy break with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) may end up handing her seat to a Democratic candidate, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Once one of the president's most loyal and vocal supporters, Greene has grown increasingly critical of Trump in recent months, having openly criticized his administration's approach on health care, its reluctance to release files on Jeffrey Epstein, and it's military and geopolitical support for Israel amid its siege on Gaza, which hundreds of human rights organizations have labeled a genocide. Trump has since pulled his endorsement of Greene " vowing to endorse a GOP opponent " and called her a "fake politician" who "betrayed the entire Republican Party." This week, the chair of the GOP District Committee in Greene's district,…...

32+ min ago (430+ words) Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) voiced "very grave concern" about the continued U.S. airstrikes on alleged drug boats off the coast of Venezuela because those on board are being "put to death" without any criminal prosecution. Turner told ABC News's Martha Raddatz on Sunday that he has not seen the tape of the so-called "double-tap" strike after two survivors were seen clinging to the boat, but expects to see the video next week. Raddatz pressed Turner on President Donald Trump's pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez " a convicted drug trafficker. "But these strikes and this this war on drugs comes as the president pardoned the former president of Honduras, serving a 45-year sentence for his involvement in one of the largest and most violent drug trafficking conspiracies," Raddatz said. "What message are Americans supposed to take from that?" "Well, there…...

35+ min ago (1756+ words) After a deadly shooting at Brown University which left two people dead and injured nine others, people across the country struggled Sunday to make sense of the event and the needless loss of life. But while Americans tend to agree that mass shootings such as this one are a tragedy, much of the GOP, predictably, continues to engage in magical thinking'by pretending gun violence is not at all connected to being able to easily procure guns. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy pointed out during an interview on CNN on Sunday that the president himself was making the problem much, much worse." "That's a pretty big statement. He's in a campaign to make violence more likely?" the CNN anchor said. "Of course," Murphy said. Later, he continued: "The evidence tells you that when you stop funding mental health, you stop funding community…...

35+ min ago (1776+ words) To celebrate America's 250th birthday, President Donald Trump is commemorating the most important person in the country's history: himself. Back in 2021days after the January 6 riotsTrump signed an act to authorize the creation of new coins to celebrate the country's 250th anniversary. The act specified that one coin be focused on women's contribution to U.S. history. In response, a bipartisan committee came up with some recommendations: a coin featuring Frederick Douglass to represent abolition, one with a "Votes for Women" flag to honor women's suffrage, and a coin featuring 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, who helped desegregate her school in 1960. But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has ultimate say, did not follow these recommendations, reported The New York Times. Instead, the new coins will feature a Pilgrim couple on the Mayflower, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln. (The Trump administration, apparently, was not…...

37+ min ago (1091+ words) The Supreme Court says it will determine whether the Trump regime can "end birthright citizenship." That's the name given to the clause in the 14th Amendment that says that if you're born on US soil, you're a US citizen entitled to the "privileges and immunities" of citizenship. Many roads were traveled to get here, the main one being Donald Trump's decade-long campaign of hatred against immigrants. But a road that gets less attention is just as important: Trump's hate-mongering never saw an equal, opposite and liberal reaction. Instead, over those years, the Democrats accepted as true the lies told by Trump and Republican allies about immigrants and immigration law. For instance, the southern border is not open. It has never been open in our lifetimes. But Trump says it is. The Republicans say it is. Their rightwing allies say it is....

45+ min ago (235+ words) President Donald Trump was openly rebuked by Republicans this past week on several fronts, and in such an open manner that one analyst argued GOP lawmakers are already eyeing "life after Trump." Journalist and CNN host Manu Raju asked a panel of experts on his "Inside Politics Sunday" show whether Trump was "losing grip" on the Republican Party, citing several recent instances of the president being openly defied by GOP lawmakers. New York Times correspondent Carl Hulse said that he believed there were already clear signs that GOP lawmakers are looking ahead to a post-Trump Republican Party, and looking to remain relevant in a post-Trump political landscape. "I think Republicans [are saying] 'hey, there's gonna be life after Trump and we want to be a participant in it," Hulse said. Just this past week, Indiana Republican state lawmakers rejected Trumps…...

47+ min ago (830+ words) President Donald Trump accepts a peace award from FIFA, the international governing body of soccer, during the World Cup drawing on Dec. 5. (White House) If you were appalled by the spectacle of Donald Trump clumsily accepting a peace trophy that looks like a prop from "Night of the Living Dead," then brace yourself. There may be worse in store. I don't follow soccer " sorry, I mean football " but I gather from those who do that the final draw is an important day for fans, because that's when they know which teams will play at various host cities. Next year's World Cup " which has been touted as the equivalent of 104 Super Bowls " is expected to be the biggest sporting event on the planet. The games will be held at 16 locations in the United States, Mexico, and Canada " including Arrowhead Stadium in…...

49+ min ago (213+ words) Jennifer Love Hewitt always goes all out for her kids" birthday parties and this time around, she"s showing fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse at it all! In preparation for Autumn"s 12th birthday, Hewitt showed how she"s getting ready at the Michael"s party shop section, where she bought gold balloons, streamers, and more for her white-gold winter-themed birthday party. We got to see how expansive it all is and how Hewitt is prepping to "create magic" for her eldest! In 2024, Autumn had a "coastal cowgirl" party, and a Bejeweled theme in 2023, and in 2021, she had an LOL doll-themed party! It"s always such a cool time and it gives us all the inspo for our own kids" parties. For those who don"t know, the I Know What You Did Last Summer star and her husband Brian Hallisay have…...

1+ hour, 8+ min ago (592+ words) As a family physician, I work every day to earn the trust of my patients. I see lines being blurred between politics and medicine and, despite the high trust the public has in their own physician, it is becoming harder to separate medical and scientific information from misinformation. I hear this concern from my patients, particularly when trusted resources, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), make drastic policy shifts: Is this science based decision-making or politics? With every new patient I see, I share my approach to care by saying, "I work for you. In many ways, you are my boss. My job is the make assessments and recommendations, yours is to make decisions, and I'm here to help you with that. How does that sound to you?" Despite this relatively high trust the public has in their…...