Philadelphia city commissioner Al Schmidt called on Mitch McConnell to vote his “conscience” in Trump’s impeachment trial. “The former POTUS incited supporters to threaten to kill my children,” Schmidt wrote on Twitter. Ahead of a likely weekend vote, McConnell announced that he would vote to acquit Trump. Visit the Business […]

More than 20 young men have accused Republican strategist John Weaver, a co-founder of the popular anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, of a years-long pattern of predatory sexual misconduct. They say he harassed them with explicit or suggestive messages and, in some instances, offered his support in exchange for sex. […]

TJ Ducklo, a White House press aide, was suspended from his job on Friday after he reportedly threatened and made disparaging comments to a reporter in an effort to stop the publication of a story about him.  Press secretary Jen Psaki said that Ducklo had been placed on one-week suspension […]

Trump’s defense team used less than three of their 16 allotted hours to present their case.  Both the impeachment managers and the defense team completed their arguments in three days. After senators get a chance to ask questions of both sides, they could vote as early as Saturday. Visit the […]

Democrats laughed and rolled their eyes during Trump’s impeachment defense on Friday. Trump’s lawyers played clips of Democrats saying the word “fight” in a lengthy video montage. Trump’s defense argues that his use of the word “fight” on January 6 was free speech. Visit the Business section of Insider for […]

Fox News Flash top headlines for February 12 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. New York, NY – EXCLUSIVE: New York Assemblyman Michael Montesano said he plans to ask the state legislature to consider impeaching Gov. Andrew Cuomo after a bombshell admission by his top […]

The pro-Trump One America Network made bizarre argument to distance Trump from the Capitol riot. It suggested that Washington’s 230-year-old road plan was what led rioters to the Capitol. The argument comes as the president fights his second impeachment in the Senate. Visit the Business section of Insider for more […]

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MSNBC host Chuck Todd on Thursday fact-checked Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) reasoning for not convicting former President Donald Trump at the end of his ongoing Senate impeachment trial. Mace repeatedly argued it would be “unconstitutional” to do so because “impeaching a president who’s no longer president has never been done in […]

State Department said Thursday that it is continuing an investigation on mysterious neurological symptoms reported by American diplomats in Cuba. In 2016, U.S. diplomats and their support staff stationed in Havana reported hearing strange sounds, steady pulses of pressure in their heads and a number of other bizarre physical sensations. […]