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Latest Content from Popular RSS News Feeds Sites (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, April 26, 2024 at 11:30 AM EDT As anti-Israel protests have spread across many of the country's most prestigious college campuses this week, several Republicans in Congress have sought to burnish their pro-Israel credentials by calling for the U.S. military to respond. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton exhorted President Joe Biden to send in National Guard units, while obliquely encouraging motorists to run over protestors. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley similarly demanded a militarized federal response "to protect Jewish Americans," while Mitch McConnell and John Thune penned a letter, signed by 25 of their fellow GOP senators, calling the demonstrators "anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist mobs" and demanding that "federal law enforcement" respond. April 26, 2024 at 10:00 AM EDT The Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue saw small-dollar donations for congressional candidates in the first quarter of this year rise significantly from the amount raised during the same period of the 2020 cycle. For the first three months of 2024, Democratic grassroots donors gave a total of $151 million to House and Senate races, representing a 20% increase in giving to Senate races over 2020 and a 29% bump in total donations to House races, according to Punchbowl News. April 26, 2024 at 9:30 AM EDT After prosecutors' lead witness painted a tawdry portrait of "catch and kill" tabloid schemes, defense lawyers in Donald Trump's hush money trial are poised Friday to dig into an account of the former publisher of the National Enquirer and his efforts to protect Trump from negative stories during the 2016 election. David Pecker will return to the witness stand for the fourth day as defense attorneys try to poke holes in the testimony of the former National Enquirer publisher, who has described helping bury embarrassing stories Trump feared could hurt his campaign. April 26, 2024 at 8:30 AM EDT The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team. Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast April 25, 2024 at 8:00 PM EDT Reproductive freedom is No. 1 issue for young Democratic voters The other topics that dominate young voters' lists may surprise you. April 25, 2024 at 8:00 PM EDT Reproductive freedom is No. 1 issue for young Democratic voters The other topics that dominate young voters' lists may surprise you. April 25, 2024 at 7:59 PM EDT A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. April 25, 2024 at 7:30 PM EDT When looking at the impact of climate change on the Caribbean, it is important to pay attention to and support local efforts to mitigate it. Our news agencies tend to cover climate disasters only as they are happening""then they move on, rarely returning to see how people are faring, coping, or recovering. The Caribbean countries are no exception to this rule. That's the reality for the dual-island Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda. You may remember that Hurricane Irma virtually wiped out Barbuda (not to be confused with Barbados) in September 2017; you may not know that nearly seven years later, tiny Barbuda""comprising just 3% of the nation's 101,489 residents""and its larger sibling Antigua have been facing multiple challenges ever since. April 25, 2024 at 7:30 PM EDT When looking at the impact of climate change on the Caribbean, it is important to pay attention to and support local efforts to mitigate it. Our news agencies tend to cover climate disasters only as they are happening""then they move on, rarely returning to see how people are faring, coping, or recovering. The Caribbean countries are no exception to this rule. That's the reality for the dual-island Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda. You may remember that Hurricane Irma virtually wiped out Barbuda (not to be confused with Barbados) in September 2017; you may not know that nearly seven years later, tiny Barbuda""comprising just 3% of the nation's 101,489 residents""and its larger sibling Antigua have been facing multiple challenges ever since. April 25, 2024 at 7:00 PM EDT Eric Hovde is a deeply patriotic Republican who desperately loves the U.S., and he's running for Senate. How do we know he loves the U.S.? Because he's a Californian running in Wisconsin, which means he loves the U.S. at least twice as much you unwashed single-staters. And he regularly flies over a big chunk of America when he's not counting his money at his bank in Utah, so there's that too. He also likes to tell everyone how patriotic he is. In fact, he's outraged"" outraged! ""that anyone would dare disparage the Pledge of Allegiance, whose recitation has long been a compulsory exercise for schoolchildren who don't know what a republic is and dimly wonder why we should give two shits about an invisible one. April 25, 2024 at 7:00 PM EDT Eric Hovde is a deeply patriotic Republican who desperately loves the U.S., and he's running for Senate. How do we know he loves the U.S.? Because he's a Californian running in Wisconsin, which means he loves the U.S. at least twice as much you unwashed single-staters. And he regularly flies over a big chunk of America when he's not counting his money at his bank in Utah, so there's that too. He also likes to tell everyone how patriotic he is. In fact, he's outraged"" outraged! ""that anyone would dare disparage the Pledge of Allegiance, whose recitation has long been a compulsory exercise for schoolchildren who don't know what a republic is and dimly wonder why we should give two shits about an invisible one. |
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