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By David Badash Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, on the witness stand Wednesday testifying in a defamation suit against him, was confronted with a bombshell: his own lawyer accidentally emailed the attorney for the Sandy Hook families a digita…

By David Badash U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), a hard core conservative, is calling for Congress to entirely revamp Social Security and Medicare, subjecting their budgets to being “evaluated” by lawmakers every year. Critics are blasting the Wisconsi…

By Evelyn Nieves The family—a couple and their four children, ages 5 to 11—wanted a dog in the worst way. Not just any dog, but the type more popular today than any of the dazzling breeds at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. They wanted a labradood…

By Meaghan Ellis A political action committee has put seven figures behind a campaign to call out Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz for his rumored ties to New Jersey. According to The Hill, End Citizens United’s $2 million advertisement is s…

By Alex Henderson After the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on December 14, 2012, Infowars host Alex Jones turned his anger not on the shooter, but on the victims’ families — some of whom have sued the far-right radio host …

By Alex Henderson Although Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has been a frequent source of frustration to the liberal/progressive wing of his party — not unlike Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — many Never Trump conservatives and independents hold him i…

By Meaghan Ellis A new analysis is shedding light on former President Donald Trump’s bizarre endorsement of two Senate candidates with the first name, Eric; an endorsement he is said to have made simply because he ran out of time to make a decision. Th…

By David Badash Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott opted to attend a fundraiser for his re-election campaign rather than head over to Uvalde, Texas on May 24, after 19 children and two teachers had been slaughtered at Robb Elementary. Abbott later t…

By Alex Henderson Over the years, countless abortion rights activists have warned that overturning Roe v. Wade would create a surge in women dying from illegal and dangerous back-alley abortions, which were common before the U.S. Supreme Court handed d…

By Alex Henderson Over the years, countless abortion rights activists have warned that overturning Roe v. Wade would create a surge in women dying from illegal and dangerous back-alley abortions, which were common before the U.S. Supreme Court handed d…