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'We're disappointed in ourselves': Costco CEOs issue shocking apology amid unionization

Costco's current and outgoing CEOs blamed themselves after a Norfolk, Virginia warehouse moved to unionize.

Outgoing CEO Craig Jelinek and now CEO Ron Vachris sent a letter to employees that was shared Friday on Reddit.

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Trump supporters want his arch enemy to be vice president: report

A majority of Trump supporters want Ron DeSantis to be Vice President if their guy gets back into the White House, according to a USA Today study. The paper also said there was more chance of snow in July.

"Sorry, folks," the reporter wrote. "That's almost certainly not going to happen, given the fractured relations between the two after DeSantis emerged for a time as the most likely alternative to Trump.

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Republican congressman violates federal law with botched cryptocurrency disclosures

A Republican congressman violated a federal financial disclosure law by reporting two cryptocurrency purchases as much as a month past a mandatory deadline, a Raw Story review of congressional documents indicates.

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) reported two purchases of Ethereum cryptocurrency, each valued between $1,001 to $15,000.

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'Trumpian' tactics already being used by Biden to sidestep law: columnist

To hear it from conservative columnist George Will in The Washington Post, there's already an authoritarian in the White House.

Will argued President Joe Biden is already using tactics many fear Trump will bring with him if he wins the presidential election. He lists actions he said were unconstitutional — student loan forgiveness and the vaccine mandate among them.

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GOP lawmaker whose speakership bid got nuked by Trump mocked for endorsing him anyway

Rep. Tom Emmer's (R-MN) dream of becoming speaker of the House of Representatives met an abrupt end this past fall when former President Donald Trump declared him a "RINO," all but torching his bid to win a majority of the Republican caucus.

Despite this personal humiliation, however, Emmer endorsed Trump's bid for the presidency on Wednesday morning.

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Epstein lawyer lets Trump off hook in resurfaced video: 'No indication' of any crime

Court filings related to disgraced billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein will be made public this week thanks to a lawsuit from one of his victims — with some worried about who they will identify as being associated with the pedophile.

The filings are expected to reveal some of Epstein's associates — triggering speculation that more information could be revealed about his relationship with Donald Trump, who flew on Epstein's private jet seven times back in the '90s.

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'Are you kidding me?' Expert hits SCOTUS judge for whining about AI but ignoring scandals

Chief Justice John Roberts is often described as a key swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court. Roberts is a conservative George W. Bush appointee, but he isn't a far-right ideologue like Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett. And he has, at times, sided with the High Court's three Democrat-appointed justices — including on the bombshell Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade after 49 years.

In an article published on Tuesday, Above the Law's Joe Patrice offers a scathing critique of Robert's year-end report, which, Patrice argues, shows a "disdain for the American people."

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'She's in love with the swamp': Boebert's seat flip dismays even her allies

Lauren Boebert’s shock decision to drop her congressional seat and fight for another on the other side of Colorado was blasted by an old friend Wednesday.

“It looks like she’s so in love with the D.C. swamp that she will do whatever it takes to stay there,” said Greg Brophy, a former Republican state lawmaker who has called Boebert a friend for years, told the Denver Post.

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'Deeply flawed' MAGA complaints about Trump disqualification shredded by law professor

Former President Donald Trump's supporters are out of their depth when they attack the decisions disqualifying the former president from the primary ballot in Colorado and Maine, University of Baltimore law professor Kim Wehle argued in an article for The Bulwark.

The disqualification stems from Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, also known as the Insurrection Clause.

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These 2024 dates could mark Trump's downfall

Donald Trump will have a very complicated schedule in 2024, dealing with a barrage of legal problems while running a presidential campaign.

In addition to four criminal indictments, the former president is facing a variety of civil lawsuits. Regardless, poll after poll is showing that he is on track to win the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

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Chris Christie: These are the two factors keeping Republicans loyal to Trump

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday that there were two factors keeping Republican politicians loyal to former President Donald Trump.

When asked why even Trump rivals such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley were reluctant to really attack him, Christie replied that there were two factors at play: "Fear and ambition."

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Ex-aide reveals Trump operatives fighting to keep his 'chaos and crazy' out of limelight

Donald Trump’s top operatives are desperately trying to keep him out of the public eye in an effort to hide the “chaos and the crazy” from voters, a former aide said Wednesday.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as communications director in the former president’s White House, told CNN there are two “sophisticated” people on Trump’s staff who are trying to steer him away from the limelight.

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'An unbreakable plurality of the GOP explicitly wants fascism': defense analyst

Defense analyst Brynn Tannehill has taken a look at recent polling of Republican primary voters and has come to the sobering conclusion that many of them want former President Donald Trump to be a dictator.

Writing in the New Republic, Tannehill notes that a recent poll of GOP voters showed that Trump's Nazi-esque rhetoric about migrants "poisoning the blood" of the nation made 42 percent of respondents more likely to support him, while only 28 percent said it made them less likely to support him.

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