Meet the people who knew Matt Gaetz as a high schooler

10 minutes ago | Business Insider

Summary List Placement Back in the late 1990s at Florida's Niceville High School, Matt Gaetz had a reputation as a know-it-all who talked over his peers and obsessed over...
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Sen. Ted Cruz no longer wears a mask at the Capitol, falsely claiming 'everybody' in the Senate has been vaccinated against COVID-19

10 minutes ago | Business Insider

Summary List Placement Sen. Ted Cruz has stopped wearing a mask while at the Capitol, according to a CNN report on Thursday. Defending his decision, the Texas Republican told...
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Wall Street gave $43.5 million to GOP lawmakers who voted to overturn the presidential election

42 minutes ago | Business Insider

Summary List Placement Wall Street gave $43.5 million during the 2019-2020 election cycle to the 147 Republican lawmakers who later voted against Joe Biden's certification as...
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Republicans are blowing up their own agenda to 'own the libs'

42 minutes ago | Business Insider

Summary List Placement This is "laugh until you cry" type hilarious. Over the last week Republicans have been blocking their own policy goals in order to make legislating more...
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Fox Host Flames GOP Gov. Kristi Noem For Awful ‘Message To Illegal Immigrants'

1 hour ago | The Huffington Post

Fox Business' Lisa Kennedy Montgomery slammed the South Dakota Republican's "call me when you're an American" tweet.
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For 25 Years, Taxpayers Picked Up Polluters' Superfund Bill. That May Finally Change

3 hours ago | The Huffington Post

Fees on oil producers and petrochemical companies once funded toxic waste cleanups. Republicans let them expire in 1995. Democrats want them back.
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Ted Cruz Shows His True Colors Once Again With Mask Stance

3 hours ago | The Huffington Post

"He doesn't care about anyone but himself," one critic hit back at the Texas Republican.
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Election objectors leaned on small donors after corporate PAC backlash

3 hours ago | Politico

Most House Republicans who objected to the certification of President Joe Biden's victory saw their small-dollar fundraising rise in the first three months of this year...
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'A nicer version of Trump': GOP donors flock to DeSantis

3 hours ago | Politico

One evening in February, Ron DeSantis quietly slipped into the luxurious Charleston Place Hotel in South Carolina. Over dinner, the Florida governor addressed an audience of...
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Democrats hand their foes a weapon as they weigh a filibuster loophole

3 hours ago | Politico

Chuck Schumer is hatching plans to further evade the constraints of the filibuster - and in the process, he could be teaching Republicans how to do it in the future. Faced with...
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Pentagon says this video taken by Navy is indeed a UFO

The Defense Department confirms this video, taken in 2019, is the real thing: A legitimate UFO. Read more ...

Biden meets with his first foreign leader. Japan's prime minister heads to...

The two leaders are looking to counter messaging from Chinese President Xi Jinping that America and democracies in general are on the decline. Read more ...

Morgan Stanley handily beats first-quarter trading and investment-banking...

Summary List Placement Morgan Stanley 's first-quarter earnings report beat analyst estimates in every major category, but the strong reults were overshadowed by a $911 million... Read more ...

Facing backlash, Simon & Schuster won't distribute book by officer involved...

Johnson & Johnson asked other drugmakers to help it study blood-clot risks...

Summary List Placement Johnson & Johnson privately contacted other drugmakers producing COVID-19 vaccines to join a study into the potential risk of blood clots, but Pfizer and... Read more ...

Iran successfully produces 60%-enriched uranium days after ‘act of sabotage'...

Iran has produced 60%-enriched uranium at its Natanz nuclear facility, country's senior officials have said. The facility was hit by an “act of sabotage” that Tehran blamed on... Read more ...

Iran has successfully produced 60% enriched uranium, top politician says...

Summary List Placement The speaker of Iran's parliament said the country had successfully enriched uranium to its highest level yet. Mohammad Qalibaf tweeted on Friday morning... Read more ...

Paul Pogba reignites feud with Jose Mourinho, accuses former Man Utd boss of...

Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has reopened his rift with Jose Mourinho, laying into his former manager by claiming he “goes against” players and treats them "like... Read more ...

Nearly 1,300 COVID-19 cases reported in Massachusetts students, staff

Massachusetts schools are seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases in students and staff. Read more ...

9 Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists Sentenced For 2019 Protests

Nine activists and lawmakers were sentenced to prison terms Friday for their participation in the 2019 anti-government protests. Read more ...