Politics

Donald Trump was in Delaware, Ohio, late last month for a rally to promote his preferred candidates in the Buckeye State — most notably J.D. Vance, who on Tuesday night won the Republican Party’s nomination for U.S. Senate. Trump strayed from his prepared remarks at several points during his speech, …

As a journalist covering QAnon and fascism in Los Angeles, I’ve seen a lot in the past couple years. I’ve seen danger and violence, heard crazy conspiracies and angry confrontations, and tracked a movement as it spirals deeper and deeper into insanity. It has worn on me, and there are …

Konstantin Malofeyev, a sanctioned Russian Oligarch, has been indicted in New York for attempting to tap $10 million in frozen U.S. assets, a scheme he allegedly executed with the help of a former Fox News director, American Jack Hanick. Malofeyev is an arch-conservative Russian nationalist and media mogul with close …

Samuel Fisher, an Upper East Side man who has been posing online as a pickup artist named “Brad Holiday,” was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to a gun possession charge in Manhattan Supreme Court. The charge resulted from a search warrant related to his …

LVIV, Ukraine — Before the war there were so many ways to travel in this country. There were sleeper trains that crawled across the country in the dead of night, rocking passengers in bunks before sidling up to stations in new cities as dawn broke. There were express trains that …

WASHINGTON — In his 2022 State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden announced new restrictions on Russian airplanes flying in American airspace and vowed to increase the pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin to stop the bloody invasion of Ukraine. Biden devoted the opening portion of his remarks — …

Republican politicians and conservative media pundits have been a little confused about how to respond to Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine. The GOP, once known for its hawkishness toward Russia, softened its stance toward the murderous authoritarian as Donald Trump praised him incessantly throughout his time in office. He continued to …

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey was questioned Thursday about his efforts to get Wendy Rogers elected to the state senate in 2020, and whether he has any regrets in light of how Rogers has been promoting white nationalist causes. Arizona Mirror reporter Jeremy Duda asked the Republican governor his thoughts on …

As Vladimir Putin ramps up his military offensive against Ukraine, not everyone is upset that the Russian bear is mauling its European neighbor. Across the American right, prominent figures from Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones to senate candidate J.D. Vance and CPAC star Tulsi Gabbard, have been cheering Putin on, …

Days after he testified to the Jan. 6 committee, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence said that “snake oil salesmen” fueled President Trump’s belief that Pence could reject certain states’ electors to overturn the 2020 election. His comments further emphasized a growing rift between Penceworld and …