Over the course of his presidency, Joe Biden’s small clutch of advisers have built an increasingly protective circle around him, limiting his exposure to the media and outside advice — an effort to manage public perceptions of the oldest person to ever hold the office and tightly control his political operation. But inside the White […]
Viral video taken on a New York City subway platform appears to show a woman snapping at police after they purportedly told her to put her vape away and asked for her ID. The undated clip was recorded at an above-ground subway stop in Brooklyn, according to the Instagram account that shared it. The unidentified […]
Morning Joe on MSNBC was in meltdown Friday with a host of guests declaring President Joe Biden should step down from the race, and a clearly emotional Mika Brzezinski—who said she had known the president for 50 years—struggling to accept what had transpired on the debate stage Joe Scarborough himself hinted that it might be […]
Conservatives launched into melodramatic meltdown mode after a judge sentenced Steve Bannon to four months in prison for defying a congressional subpoena from the January 6 committee. Representative Matt Gaetz wrote, presumably as he collapsed in slow motion onto a fainting couch, “It is with great sadness and anger that we observe the death of […]
April was a poor month for stocks. Despite encouraging company earnings, investors took a breather and indexes fell after five months of solid gains. The Nasdaq lost 4.4% for the month while the S&P 500 fell 4.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 5%, according to IBD MarketSurge. X Much of the indexes’ poor performance […]
(Bloomberg) — Ruffer LLP, the £22 billion ($27.6 billion) UK-based asset manager, is making its biggest-ever bet on cash as shrinking US liquidity boosts the possibility of a violent market reversal. Most Read from Bloomberg Two-thirds of the money it oversees now sits in cash, a record allocation, according to fund manager Matt Smith. The […]
Donald Trump’s Easter Sunday message to his followers on Truth Social was a simple command: “Never forget.” The former president fumed at retiring House Republicans, specifically sharing a report of Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher’s recent decision to not seek another term despite pleas from GOP leadership in the House. Gallagher announced that he will […]
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., on Sunday accused ABC News host George Stephanopoulos of trying to “shame” her as a rape victim because he questioned her support for former President Donald Trump after a jury found him liable of sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll. “I’m not going to sit here on your show and be […]
Counterintelligence agents in Germany have sprung into action after one of Vladimir Putin’s top allies in the press published an audio recording on Friday that she claimed was a conversation between German generals plotting to blow up the Crimean Bridge. The 38-minute audio clip, first shared by RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, circulated simultaneously in Russia’s […]
Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany on Monday said she found it “infuriating” that Donald Trump came in last in a new survey ranking all U.S. presidents. McEnany, who served as Trump’s press secretary for much of his final year in office, made an “uck” sound of disgust as she summed up the survey of social […]
Sen. Chris Murphy spent months negotiating a bipartisan border security bill with Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and the White House. Then, in a flash last Sunday, hours after the bill was released, Republicans sabotaged the effort. Before the Connecticut Democrat went to sleep that night, he knew the legislation was dead. “They’re […]
David Rosenberg.CNBC There’s a recession looming that threatens to hammer stocks, David Rosenberg says. The veteran economist said the potential sell-off makes 2022’s decline look like an “appetizer.” Labor hoarding and debt-fueled spending can’t shore up the economy for much longer, he says. The economy is barreling toward a recession — and it could trigger […]