If there's one thing that is predictable about Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), it's his willingness to avail himself of political humiliation, Los Angeles Times columnist LZ Granderson explained.

In a column, Granderson cited the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, which is expected to be finalized this week, no thanks to Graham, who was previously willing to support her. Graham ranted in the Senate Judiciary Committee about a list of grievances, but all of those issues existed the last time he voted to confirm Jackson to the Appeals Court.

A new two-minute short film about coming out, collaboratively produced by Oreo and PFLAG, has predictably gotten under the skin of conservatives. Already, Greg Kelly and Ben Shapiro are among the right-wing talking heads vowing to boycott "gay cookies" following Oreo's public display of LGBTQ allyship.

"The Note," which was directed by Alice Wu ("Saving Face" and "The Half of It"), depicts a young Chinese-American man practicing a coming-out speech before a few close family members. Before the young man shares his truth with his grandmother, his mom slips him a note. "She might be my mother," it reads, "but you are my son."

Are oil and gasoline prices being manipulated to create inflated profits? It’s easy enough to find out, maverick energy economist Robert McCullough told Congress Tuesday.

It’s also easy for our government to adopt temporary policies that will lower costs at the pump by:

As Moscow residents went about their morning early this week, they may have come across an artist laying face-down in front of government buildings and landmarks, recreating widely-seen images of the alleged massacre of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine which have sparked international outrage in recent days.

Wearing a brown jacket with their hands tied behind their back with white fabric, the artist appeared on a staircase outside the Kremlin, two streets crowded with pedestrians, and a bridge outside the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, according to images posted Monday by independent Russian media outlet Holod.

While much of the criticism of a U.S. Postal Service deal with Oshkosh Defense for a new fleet has focused on the fact that most vehicles will be gas-guzzling versus electric, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday got a USPS official to admit the agency isn't concerned the Wisconsin-based firm plans to build the trucks in notoriously anti-union South Carolina.

Near the end of a U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing, the New York Democrat questioned Victoria Stephen, executive director of the Postal Service's Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) Program, about whether the USPS considered Oshkosh's unionized workforce in Wisconsin and when the agency knew about the company's location decision.

On Tuesday, CNN reported that investigators on the House January 6 Committee have obtained the emails from pro-Trump attorney John Eastman that he had sought to keep secret.

This comes after a ruling from a Federal District Judge David Carter that Eastman's correspondence with Trump is not covered by attorney-client privilege — a ruling in which Carter also stated it was likely that Trump had committed criminal obstruction of Congress.

Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson appears to have the votes to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, as three Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Mitt Romney (R-UT) — are set to vote with every Democrat. She brings with her a trove of legal experience, including the first Supreme Court nominee in decades to have served as a public defender.

But on Tuesday, speaking to Real America's Voice, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) tore into Jackson — claiming that she is unqualified for the role, and that her nomination was somehow an insult.

Dem officials do 4-hour livestream fact-checking ‘big lie’ claims during Trump rally

by Allison R. Donahue, Michigan Advance
April 5, 2022

Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum, Attorney General Dana Nessel and state Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-Ann Arbor) recorded a four-hour livestream during former President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington Township Saturday where they reviewed and corrected inaccurate claims from he and other GOP officials.

In a stunning moment during Tuesday's White House press briefing a CBS News reporter all but urged the White House to declare war on Russia in response to the war crimes the world has now seen in Bucha, Ukraine, and other parts of the country Vladimir Putin has waged an illegal war against.

CBS News correspondent Steven Portnoy asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, "why shouldn't the images of the atrocities for Bucha compel a worldwide unified coalition kinetic response?"

Republican U.S. Senate candidate and "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance has some choice words for Ohio voters. In a new 30-second TV spot he asks: "Are you a racist? Do you hate Mexicans?"

Vance is spending $1 million throughout the state to air the ad in which he attacks President Joe Biden for not completing former President Donald Trump's ineffective border wall with Mexico, according to a Fox News report.

Joe Biden and Barack Obama are getting the band back together Tuesday -- at least for the day, with the former president visiting his former vice president in the White House to try and restoke Democratic momentum ahead of midterm elections.

For Obama, it will be the first time he steps into the hallowed corridors and historic rooms since he left five years ago, handing power to Donald Trump and ushering in a period of political turmoil unprecedented in modern times.