September 3, 2026 at 10:04 PM EDT
Fetterman snubbed veterans and constituents to hang with Fox: report

A new report reveals that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) snubbed disabled veterans and poor people, so he could instead pander to Republicans, right-wing media and pro-Israel groups. "One morning in June, three paralyzed military veterans in wheelchairs from rural Pennsylvania arrived at the office of Sen. John Fetterman for a long-awaited meeting to discuss legislation that would improve their care," reported The Wall Street Journal's Will Hobson and Siobhan Hughes on Thursday. "Fetterman's staff greeted them with bad news: The Pennsylvania Democrat had to cancel. He'd told his staff he may have eaten something bad and wasn't feeling well, according to people familiar with the matter."

September 3, 2026 at 9:26 PM EDT
Trump's fear of smart people explains absolutely everything: biographer

In his 1513 political treatise "The Prince," Italian philosopher and statesman Niccolò Machiavelli wrote that truly great leaders surround themselves with the best and brightest advisers they can find. Indeed, he famously summed up his perspective by saying that "the first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." More than four centuries later, a Republican president named Dwight Eisenhower was rumored to have privately made a similar observation, reportedly saying that "the greatest leaders are the ones smart enough to have people smarter than them around them."

September 3, 2026 at 9:09 PM EDT
Fox fired Bartiromo for being a Trump rat: report

Status reports that it has uncovered the reason behind Fox News' firing of veteran entertainer Maria Bartiromo, the business journalist who became a source of right-wing conspiracies. The Rupert Murdoch-controlled network offered no explanation for her removal, but hours after her dismissal, Status believes it has the answer: Bartiromo, 58, had informed the White House about Fox's secret instructions to not promote President Donald Trump's election conspiracies on the air.

September 3, 2026 at 8:48 PM EDT
Former GOP gov busted over child support at job: report

Controversial former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was arrested Thursday by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office, according to two dispatchers at the Paris-Bourbon County 911, according to Louisville Public Media. "Bevin was reportedly arrested while playing an extra on the set of a Christian film production there," reports LPM. "The former governor had an active bench warrant against him in Jefferson County, where a judge found him in contempt of court for not turning over required financial documents to the court in his divorce and child support case."

September 3, 2026 at 7:44 PM EDT
Local columnist tramples GOP lawmaker's wormy reversal

President Donald Trump has retained an iron grip on the Republican Party despite the more than two dozen sexual misconduct accusations against him, as well as at least one report of sexual misconduct allegedly facilitated by the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. He was even adjudicated to have sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. Now it appears that at least one other Republican politician is hoping that if Trump could politically get away with his proved and alleged sexual misconduct, he too can be forgiven. Yet a prominent local columnist does not want him to pull this off.

September 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM EDT
Twofer: Trump begs Supreme Court to nuke mail-in voting -- again

President Donald Trump has lost more than 20 cases in lower courts in his attempt to force states to share sensitive voter data with him, which experts overwhelmingly agree he plans on using to stop Democrats from voting against him in the upcoming midterm elections. Now Trump has taken his desire to do this to the Supreme Court, arguing for a second time that he should be allowed to order the Postal Service to not deliver mail-in ballots in states that do not share this information with him.

September 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM EDT
Conservative justice just ruled against Trump on major Michigan case

President Donald Trump is trying to make it harder for Americans to vote, yet a judge he appointed -- Justice Brett Kavanaugh -- just denied an attempt by MAGA voters in a key swing state as that voter attempts to put a referendum on the ballot requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship. "Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday refused to order Michigan officials to put a measure on the November ballot over whether to require proof of citizenship to vote in the state," MS NOW's Jordan Rubin reported on Thursday. "A group behind the measure sought an emergency order from the Supreme Court ahead of a Friday deadline. Americans for Citizen Voting | Michigan's urgent application went to Kavanaugh because he is the justice assigned to field emergency requests from the Michigan region. When justices receive such applications, they can decide the matters themselves or refer them to their colleagues for a full court decision."

September 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM EDT
White House MAGA-tizes classic video games with cringe racism

Fox News reports The White House is "rolling out a new website Thursday that will feature classic arcade-style games with a MAGA twist." A promotional video for the game site obtained by Fox News Digital shows MAGA remakes of 8-bit favorites, including Flappy Bird, Snake, Duck Hunt and other classics originals, an even more classic touch of Trump.

September 3, 2026 at 4:27 PM EDT
Exposed: Trump's 'secretive' scheme to pilfer medical research funds

On Thursday, Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee revealed that the Department of Defense is attempting to divert billions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health to supplement the Pentagon budget issues caused by President Donald Trump's war with Iran. This is according to a report in which ranking member Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) revealed the effort, which has been undertaken "without notifying Congress."

September 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM EDT
The jig is up: Trump is going to take the money and run

There are amazing sentences in this Post report from this morning about the president not spending hundreds of millions intended to support Republicans in the coming midterms. They are amazing sentences, because they exist in a mainstream news outlet owned by a billionaire who profits from his patronage of the White House, but also because they never quite land on the truth in plain sight, which is that Donald Trump is stealing the money.

September 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM EDT
Top MAGA senator setting stage for epic 'intraparty clash'

In 2024, a U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia flipped to Republican when then-Gov. Jim Justice enjoyed a 41 percent victory over Democratic nominee Glenn Elliott (the seat was formerly held by centrist Joe Manchin, who left the Democratic Party and became an independent that year). But now, Justice is, according to Politico, "seriously considering launching a campaign to return to the governor's mansion." And if that happens, it could set the stage for bitter infighting among West Virginia Republicans.

September 3, 2026 at 12:07 PM EDT
Trump's 'band of clowns' prove 'their own grip on reality is loosening'

Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick gave critics of the Trump administration a lot to talk about with recent controversial remarks -- Vance talking about the "End Times" in an expression of solidarity with far-right fundamentalist evangelicals, Lutnick claiming that data centers "don't use water." And according to the i Paper, such comments from Trump's "band of clowns" do more than make his second Trump administration look bad -- they make things even worse for Republican candidates in the midterms.