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Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) months-long blockade of military promotions was roundly criticized for jeopardizing national security. Now that it's over, some senators are vowing that those senior officers will get compensated for the pay they lost due to Tuberville's obstruction.

Military publication Stars and Stripes reported that an amendment has been included in a must-pass defense appropriations bill that includes back pay for the hundreds of military officers affected by Tuberville's blockade that lasted for nearly all of 2023. Sens. Joe Manchin (I-WV) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) led the passage of the amendment through the Senate Armed Services Committee, and now it awaits a vote by the full Senate.

On Monday, July 15 — the opening day of the 2024 Republican National Convention — the GOP, for the first time in U.S. history, gave its presidential nomination to someone who is facing three criminal indictments: Donald Trump.

Previously, that number had been four. But Judge Aileen Cannon, earlier in the day, dismissed special counsel Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago documents case against the former president.

Despite the over-inflated praise of Donald Trump for picking Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his 2024 running mate at the Republican Party Convention being held in Milwaukee, there are serious questions being raised over whether the freshman senator brings anything to the ticket that it didn't already have.

According to Salon political analyst, Heather "Digby" Parton — no fan of the convicted felon ex-president — he had so many better candidates to choose from and it looks like he blew it.

Parton began by admitting she thought Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) would have fit the bill better had she not confessed to shooting a puppy named Cricket, as she argues that Noem "has the Mar-a-Lago Barbie look, which Trump obviously loves, and putting a woman on the ticket might have helped with those suburban moms who don't like him very much."

She then added skipping over North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (R) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) could come back to haunt Trump.

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article failed to note that the 2024 Republican National Convention ratings were up slightly from 2020, despite being down markedly from 2016. It also attributed a claim to Biden's campaign that was actually made by Biden supporters.

Notorious critics of former President Donald Trump Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC sniped at the Republican National Convention's first day ratings Tuesday, though their claims were misleading if not false.

Following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his Pennsylvania rally last weekend, his allies at the Republican National Convention are downright elated over the turn of events, wrote Amanda Marcotte for Salon — and already making plans to use it as a political weapon.

"Trump is leaning into this with all the subtlety of a pro wrestler," wrote Marcotte. "In a video that leaked Tuesday, Trump is heard on speakerphone talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his injury, which he described as like being bitten by 'the world’s largest mosquito.' But when Trump showed up at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday night, he was sporting a comically oversized bandage on his ear. The crowd responded by chanting, 'Fight, fight, fight!'"

Many powerful Republicans are horrified and frustrated by Donald Trump's choice of running mate in the upcoming presidential election, according to a new report.

Sen. J.D. Vance's isolationist views both alarm and infuriate hawkish Republicans who fear the 39-year-old will destroy the Republican Party's longtime foreign policy consensus, Politico reported Wednesday.

The Democratic National Committee will no longer try to nominate President Joe Biden on an accelerated timeline.

Although the Democratic National Committee had decided to hold a virtual vote on July 21 to nominate Biden, many Democrats who are pushing for a new nominee protested and claimed that this move was an attempt to rush through the process without giving consideration to a potential new candidate.

Residents of Union City struggled to beat the 100-degree heat on Tuesday afternoon. And across the Hudson River in a Manhattan courtroom, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, the city’s former mayor, failed to beat the rap.

On the day Menendez was convicted on all 16 charges in his federal corruption trial, residents of this densely populated Hudson County town made it clear: He got what he deserved.

Reacting to the conviction of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) on corruption charges Tuesday, one of his former Democratic colleagues in the Senate unleashed a harsh tirade on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" — and lamented she couldn't use profanity to describe him.

Speaking with the MSNBC hosts, ex-Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) stated by blurting out, "Yeah, I don't even know where to start with this guy" after it was noted he plans to appeal his conviction.

The Republican National Convention carries a general sense that former President Donald Trump's allies are already measuring curtains for the Oval Office, onlookers have said.. Following weeks of intraparty Democratic turmoil and a voter base energized by last weekend's attempted assassination of the former president, Republicans feel that victory in November is all but assured.

The thing is, wrote Hayes Brown for MSNBC, it's not — and that's a problem because the GOP reaction to a loss, or even the electoral environment shifting against them, could be dangerous.

Writer Jonathan Chait Wednesday morning used a four-letter word to describe conservative intellectuals' new spin on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump: "Dumb."

He then shared his latest New York Magazine column explaining in essence, no, it's not hypocritical for Democrats to condemn the attempt on Trump's life.

Comcast, which owns NBC News, triggered an internal revolt when they moved to take "Morning Joe" off the air after former President Donald Trump faced an assassination attempt on Saturday — and they're now scrambling to contain the mess, CNN's Reliable Sources reported.

This comes, wrote Oliver Darcy, as Joe Scarborough, after returning to the air, "offered viewers a peek behind the curtain into the conspicuous decision-making process that transpired over the weekend. Scarborough said that the 'Morning Joe' team had been informed Sunday evening that all of MSNBC’s opinion-oriented dayside lineup would be pre-empted for a single NBC News feed covering the attempt on Trump's life" — and yet this turned out to be a lie, with all other opinion programming continuing.