Politics Trump’s Gamble: Sue Congress and Run Out the ClockThe Daily Beast - David R. Lurie The federal courts are about to be called upon to adjudicate the most serious conflict between the executive and legislative branches of the federal …
Al-Qaeda U.S. Intel to Congress: No Evidence al-Qaeda Is Helping IranThe Daily Beast - Betsy Woodruff The American intelligence community has no evidence that al-Qaeda has cooperated with the Iranian government in its recent aggressive moves in the …
House Judiciary Committee House Democrats Subpoena Former Trump Aide Hope HicksThe Daily Beast - Erin Banco The House Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday it had issued subpoenas for Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson for testimony and documents related to the …
Play buttonQAnon QAnon Teams Up With Alleged Cult LeaderThe Daily Beast - Will Sommer This story originally appeared in Right Richter, a newsletter by Will Sommer. Subscribe now to see what's happening in right-wing media from the …
Rex Tillerson Rex Tillerson Secretly Meets With House Foreign Affairs Committee to Talk TrumpThe Daily Beast - Erin Banco Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was spotted entering a congressional office building on Tuesday morning for what a committee aide told The …
Ben Carson Rep. Kathy Porter Shows Ben Carson, Housing Secretary, Does Not Know Basic Housing TermThe Daily Beast - Justin Baragona During testimony before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson appeared to be stumped …
DCCC House Dems Rakes in Cash From Gun LobbyistThe Daily Beast - Lachlan Markay The Democratic Party’s House campaign arm raised money from one of Washington’s premiere defense industry lobbyists just months after he signed two …
U.S. Dept. of State One Gay Couple’s Battle to Keep Their Twin Sons AmericanThe Daily Beast - Scott Bixby When Andrew and Elad Dvash-Banks won their lawsuit against the State Department in February, they thought that the yearlong legal battle over their …
African-American News Robert Smith’s Gesture to Morehouse College Grads Was Great, but What About Next Year’s Class?The Daily Beast - Barrett Holmes Pitner Over the weekend billionaire Robert F. Smith pledged to pay off the student loan debt of Morehouse College’s 2019 graduating class. This is an …
Beto O'Rourke Beto O’Rourke’s Fizzle: Latest Sign Is Opposition Research Requests Have ‘Died Off’The Daily Beast - Hanna Trudo In the days leading up to Beto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign, a top Republican opposition research firm was brimming with requests from political …
Play buttonPete Buttigieg Trump Gets Pennsylvania Rally Crowd to Boo Fox News: ‘Something Strange Is Going On’The Daily Beast - Justin Baragona It appears that President Trump is not going to let go of Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s Fox News town hall anytime soon. After lashing out on Twitter that …
The Daily Beast Secret Service Officers Are Being Sent to the BorderThe Daily Beast - Betsy Woodruff The U.S. Secret Service is now participating in a not-so-secret undertaking: dealing with the influx of migrants at America’s southern border. …
Pete Hegseth ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Pete Hegseth Privately Lobbied Trump to Pardon Accused War CriminalsThe Daily Beast - Asawin Suebsaeng, If the president pardons U.S. servicemen accused and convicted of war crimes, you can thank one of Donald Trump’s favorite cable-news hosts. Over the …
Don McGahn Trump DOJ Says Star Mueller Witness Don McGahn Does Not Have to Testify Before House DemsThe Daily Beast - Betsy Woodruff Don McGahn does not have testify before Congress, according to a memo released Monday from the Department of Justice. The memo, released by the …
Elizabeth Warren Pete Buttigieg Schools Elizabeth Warren on How to Take on the Enemy and WinThe Daily Beast - Matt Lewis Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s performance in the Fox News town hall on Sunday shows why he came out of nowhere to become a real force in the 2020 …
Nuclear Weapons Survey: Americans Say President Shouldn’t Launch Nuclear Strike Without Congressional War DeclarationThe Daily Beast - Center for Public Integrity This story originally appeared at Center for Public Integrity. The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, investigative newsroom in …
Technology A Shady Facebook Campaign Is Stoking the Iran-U.S. ConflictThe Daily Beast - Lachlan Markay As U.S. policymakers weigh responses to increasing Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf, a German national based in a small neighborhood of …
Trump Administration How Dems Can Rally the Country to Impeach TrumpThe Daily Beast - Michael Tomasky Yes, the House Democrats do look weak right now. But what exactly can they do? Impeach the bastard, you say. Well, OK. So they open impeachment …
Chuck Fleischmann Inside the Secret Dinners Where Congress Figures Out How to Stop a Nuclear ApocalypseThe Daily Beast - Sam Brodey On an evening two years ago, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) walked out of a closed-door dinner on Capitol Hill without a campaign check or valuable …
Play buttonMitt Romney Romney: GOP Rep’s Call to Impeach Trump a ‘Courageous Statement’The Daily Beast - Justin Baragona Reacting to Republican Congressman Justin Amash’s call for President Trump to face impeachment over the obstruction of justice findings of the …
Justin Amash GOP Congressman Justin Amash’s Impeachment Call Boosts Pressure on PelosiThe Daily Beast - Allison Quinn Republican congressman Justin Amash’s support for impeachment proceedings against President Trump ratchets up the pressure on House Speaker Nancy …
Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders Calls for Ban on For-Profit Charter Schools, $60K Minimum Salary for TeachersThe Daily Beast - Gideon Resnick Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled his education plan in a speech Saturday in South Carolina, calling for a ban on for-profit charter schools, an …
Michael Bennet Michael Bennet Might Not Win in 2020 but He Has All the Right IdeasThe Daily Beast - Michael Tomasky As frightening as this historical moment is in so many ways, it’s hopeful in one respect. We may finally be at a point when a majority of people are …
Dan Lipinski DCCC Wants to Save a Pro-Life Dem. Dems Ask: at What Cost?The Daily Beast - Sam Brodey, The day after Alabama lawmakers passed a law to ban nearly all abortions in the state, House Democrats confronted some tricky optics: a Chicago …
Donald Trump How Trump Makes Bestsellers Out of His EnemiesThe Daily Beast - Molly Jong-Fast Almost every president extolls his preferred scribes. John Adams adored Mary Wollstonecraft, Lincoln was a huge admirer of Shakespeare, and Jimmy …
Joe Biden Why Black Voters Are Gravitating to BidenThe Daily Beast - Adam Howard On January 12, 2017, a very moving and apparently unexpected tribute from President Barack Obama for Vice President Joe Biden played out live before …
Politics Department of Homeland Security Urges Cybersecurity Staff to ‘Deploy’ to Border InsteadThe Daily Beast - Betsy Woodruff, The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency—which also works to protect schools and places of worship—is urging staffers tasked with …
Chris Wallace Fox News’ Chris Wallace: Bill Barr ‘Clearly Is Protecting’ TrumpThe Daily Beast - Justin Baragona Reacting to a Fox News interview with Attorney General William Barr that included Barr essentially threatening Democrats who criticize him and …
Iran Mr. President: Help Bring an American Hostage Home From IranThe Daily Beast - Montel Williams One of the United States military’s guiding principles is that we leave no man or woman behind. In July 2018, Michael White, a Navy veteran from …
