Politics

Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn defended the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 and dreamed of returning four years later as a congressman. Tuesday, that dream crumbled when Dunn lost the Democratic nomination for a House seat in Maryland. In Tuesday’s primary, Maryland state Sen. Sarah Elfreth was projected to defeat over 20 Democratic rivals…

Derrick Evans filmed himself strolling the halls of Congress as a member of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. Three years later, the ultraconservative West Virginian hoped to return to Capitol Hill as a full-fledged congressman. On Tuesday, however, those dreams were dashed. The Associated Press projected that…

After a bitter primary battle against a wealthy wine mogul, Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks was projected to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maryland, laying the table for a bruising match-up with former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R). She was projected by the Associated Press to defeat the deep-pocketed Rep. David…

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), the day after he attended part of Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial in New York—later doubting jurors’ citizenship and complaining about how the indicted former president is enduring “mental anguish” in the “depressing” courtroom—admitted Tuesday that “one of the reasons” for his appearance and comments was “to overcome this gag order”…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a message for the audience Tuesday as he joined a local band in a Kyiv bar during his surprise trip to the Ukrainian capital. “Your soldiers, your citizens–particularly in the northeast, in Kharkiv–are suffering tremendously. But they need to know, you need to know, the United States is…

Moms for Liberty is suing the U.S. Department of Education over the Biden Administration’s new Title IX regulations that protect transgender students—and they’ve listed a series of scenarios where they claim the rule would “irreparably harm” their members’ children and violate their Christian beliefs. Among their listed anxieties: A high-school athlete in Pennsylvania would be…

Despite falling flat on his face with doomed media outlet The Messenger, Jimmy Finkelstein is already looking to launch another project, multiple sources familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast. The former owner of The Hill recently met with potential investors in New York, according to three sources familiar with the matter, in an…

“I love the poorly educated,” then-candidate Donald Trump declared back in 2016 while flanked by his two eldest sons. In response, Eric Trump turned toward his father and beamed. He felt seen. Republican then-presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures to his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump as he addresses supporters after being declared by…

Never let it be said that Laura Ingraham isn’t prepared. Present for day 17 of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, the host of The Ingraham Angle brought along a pair of binoculars, which aren’t, strictly speaking, banned in the courtroom. They are, however, banned when evidence is being shown to legal counsel before…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, personally delivered paperwork to the Texas secretary of state’s office this week and claimed in a video that the independent presidential candidate had gathered “far beyond the number of signatures” necessary to place him on the ballot. “Thank you guys so much. This is so meaningful,” Shanahan…