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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save John Arnold is an Enron executive-turned-hedge fund billionaire-turned-philanthropist who has taken a great interest in the healthcare debate, specifically on issues related to Medicare, Medicaid, drug prices, and the role hospitals play in increasing medical…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An elderly woman who made waves online Thursday for holding a sign that some have deemed racially insensitive outside a school board meeting where Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears, who is black, was at…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In a break from its historically liberal disposition, the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Trump administration has awarded funding supporting nearly a dozen projects headed by individuals and organizations linked to the broader…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In July, the Middle East Forum released a report claiming that the Department of Homeland Security had approved $25 million between 2013 and 2023 to groups with “documented links to foreign terrorist organizations.” Within a…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced in February that he wouldn’t be seeking reelection, but has so far stopped short of endorsing a successor. That hasn’t stopped wealthy donors linked to him and other party leaders…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LGBT Life Center CEO Stacie Walls publicly fretted in January that her organization’s queer advocacy could lead to the Trump administration cutting off its public funding. Federal records show that her fears were at least…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Asad Zaman, an Islamic imam who once promoted a pro-Hitler documentary and praised Hamas following its 2023 terrorist attacks, leads an organization that held a private inauguration event for Minneapolis mayoral hopeful Omar Fateh, according…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A majority of the funds that propelled Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw to victory in the Democratic primary for Virginia’s 11th Congressional District came from his dead boss’s campaign account, not funds he raised organically,…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The District of Columbia’s Ward 8 is on track to have a homicide rate this year of roughly 71.9 per 100,000, slightly higher than the murder rate recorded in Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez, a city that…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MAGA KY, a super PAC funded by out-of-state, pro-Israel billionaires, spent $1.56 million between June 27 and Aug. 4 on TV and digital advertisements opposing the reelection of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who made waves…