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Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “America Reports” that if the Republican Party were divided, it would leave Democrats in power, which could bring the United States down a “road to socialism.” Anchor Trace Gallagher said, “The next debate, GOP primary debate is coming up in a few weeks.” He asked, “What’s the strategy going forward, senator, for you to get more speaking time, for you to get your name out there more often?” Tim Scott said, “Great question. Substance will drive my debate performance. I will provide...

Scantily-clad revellers twerked in the streets and filmed each other grinding against one another during raunchy celebrations at Notting Hill Carnival. But critics today questioned whether the displays were really 'sexual empowerment' or if they were going too far. Broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer said: 'I believe this is what young women think is called "sexual empowerment". Sigh.' Videos posted on social media showed festival-goers dancing provocatively in pairs or groups, with some bending over while others danced behind them. The suggestive videos have received mixed comments online with some hitting out at the dancing as inappropriate, especially as the event attracts...

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), now a CNN contributor, said Friday on CNN’s “The Source” that Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) halting military promotions has given Democrats an advantage as to which political party supports the military. Anchor Kaitlan Collins asked, “Did you ever think that the defense secretary would have to issue new guidance on how Pentagon leadership is going to work because of a member of your party?”

Ex-CNN boss Jeff Zucker was spotted leaving Don Lemon's ritzy Hamptons party holding hands with a married CNN anchor - despite his girlfriend being at the bash. Alisyn Camerota, 57, beamed as she walked hand-in-hand with Jeff on Saturday. Zucker's lover Allison Gollust, 50, who already cost him his executive job at the media company last year, was seen leaving on her own. The mother-of-three, who currently hosts CNN Tonight at 10pm, lives with her husband Tim Lewis, 57, a partner at a private equity firm, in Connecticut. Gripping each other's hand in the New York summer heat, Zucker wore...

A shooting at a party in El Paso, Texas wounded eight people on Friday night, according to a news report. Police in El Paso said the shooting happened on Swan Drive near the El Paso Country Club in the city’s Upper Valley area around 9:45 p.m., KVIA-TV reported. No information was immediately available about the victims but KVIA reported that police said they were transported to a hospital.

Blood is spattered across the ceiling of a laundry room, a few feet from Laurie-Ann Mills’ apartment, likely from people who break into the complex and use intravenous drugs hastily or incorrectly. A gap between her apartment door and the frame allows noise to easily travel into Mills’ apartment. Her countertops are peeling. Several electrical outlets are broken. A sink in her living room produces yellow water. Her dishwasher leaks onto the kitchen floor. One-half of her apartment occasionally loses power. Cars, packages and apartments are repeatedly broken into or stolen. And a neighbor, who has since moved, was stabbed...

Admiral Rachel Levine, the Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has declared, as Pride month is coming to an end, that it should be a “Summer of Pride.” “Happy Pride! Happy Pride Month, and actually — let’s declare it a summer of Pride. Happy Summer of Pride.” ADMIRAL LEVINE, Biden's assistant secretary for health, says it's no longer just Pride month — it's a "Summer of Pride" pic.twitter.com/Y84AuBzQo0 — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 26, 2023 The admiral, who is transgender, posted the message on the official HHS Instagram account, and posted similar...

Eleven people were shot, one fatally, at a party early Father’s Day morning in Democrat-run St. Louis, Missouri. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the party was being held on a fifth-floor loft in downtown, and police arrived on the scene to find multiple firearms and “multiple types of shell casings” spread about. The deceased individual was identified as 17-year-old Makao Moore.

Two men have been killed and three others were injured in a mass shooting at a Chicago Father's Day celebration. Gunfire broke out at a gathering in the Roseland neighborhood near West 99th Street and South Princeton Avenue just before 8pm. A 37-year-old man was shot in his head and a 33-year-old man was shot in the neck, and both men died from their injuries, according to police. Another 27-year-old man is in critical condition after he was blasted in the buttocks and shoulder, while a 19-year-old and 25-year-old were also shot but are in stable condition. It comes after...

A trove of photos from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop that were published on a new website last week includes a litany of never-before-seen images depicting the first son’s former hard-partying ways — and family life. The nearly 10,000-image catalog includes a perverse mix of family photographs and naked snapshots of himself in hotel rooms surrounded by drug paraphernalia and scantily clad women. Several pictures capture the nude 53-year-old Hunter alongside a tattooed woman in bedazzled mesh lingerie. Another shows him apparently naked behind a hotel desk with two mystery women — one who’s undressed and another lying in bed —...

Keep calm and stay away. Amsterdam has launched a new ad campaign targeting party-loving British tourists — telling them to think again. The campaign, aimed at British men aged between 18 and 35, wants to curb these “nuisance” travelers, who overindulge in the Netherlands capital where marijuana and prostitution are legal. The new ads are featured prominently whenever someone in Britain searches for terms like “stag party Amsterdam,” “cheap hotel Amsterdam” or “pub crawl Amsterdam.” The accompanying videos show the repercussions British men can face when coming to the city to get “messy.”

The Republican Party, forged from of a coalition of political forces to oppose the advance of slavery in the American west, was created in Ripon, Wisconsin, on this day in history, March 20, 1854. "The Republican Party grew out of resistance to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which overrode the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery to spread into Western territory by popular sovereignty," writes PBS American Experience in its history of political parties in the United States. "'Anti-Nebraska' men included anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats, Free Soilers, reformers, and abolitionists." Alvin Earle Bovay, an attorney and co-founder of Ripon College, was incensed...

Connecticut police arrested, charged and released two parents Thursday, nearly a year after they allegedly allowed minors to drink alcohol at a house party that led to the fatal May 2022 stabbing of 17-year-old James McGrath. The Shelton Police Department (SPD) announced the arrest of Paul Leifer, 59, and Susana Leifer, 51, with permitting minors to possess alcohol. Susana Leifer was also charged with second-degree reckless endangerment after McGrath was fatally stabbed following a party at their house last year. "Several high school students attended this party where alcohol was present. During the investigation it was revealed that Susanna had...

The borg — "blackout rage gallon" — has become the drink of choice on college campuses across the country. Made with half water, half vodka, a caffeinated flavor enhancer and a dash of powdered electrolytes, the drink has been hailed by many students on TikTok as a hangover-proof party staple. Binge drinking, which involves consuming an excessive amount of alcohol over a short period of time, remains a widespread issue that many college administrators have struggled to control. But as borgs go viral, some harm reduction advocates — who don't condone binge drinking — have said the trend may actually...

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (R-Calif.) said Wednesday, the morning after President Biden’s State of the Union address, that she believes the country needs a “strong” Republican Party but this “is not it.” “It’s not our judgment about what it should be — it’s their judgment — but it’s a missed opportunity for America,” Pelosi said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” She pointed to the 15 votes and nearly a week of negotiations that it took House Republicans to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as Speaker, calling it “inept.” Republican lawmakers repeatedly heckled the president during his speech before a joint session...

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) would not deny possibly running for president in 2024 as a Democrat or a member of another party Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Host Chuck Todd asked, “If you run for office in 2024, are you going to run as a Democrat?” Manchin replied, “Chuck, I haven’t made a decision what I’m going to do in 2024. I got two years ahead of me now to do the best I can for my state and the country.”

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will become the longest serving party leader in Senate history on Tuesday. McConnell, 80, will remain the Republican minority leader in the 118th Congress and thus eclipse the late Sen. Mike Mansfield’s time as Democrat leader from 1961 to 1977. McConnell overcame ten Republican “no” votes in November to remain minority leader. The votes against McConnell marked the first time McConnell had received a “no” vote as leader, a sign the GOP has begun to turn against his establishment agenda.

At a certain point, all decisions and election chances in politics come down to basic math. No matter how some consultants, pollsters or campaign managers may attempt to complicate the process to justify their fees or salaries paid by a candidate or company, it still comes down to this: Does the math finish on the “plus side” for him or her to run, and does it finish on the plus side for the candidate to win? My mother used to say, “If you can read, you can cook.” In the arena of political elections, if you can do basic addition...

Donald Trump — meet Kyrsten Sinema. Sen. Sinema (I-Ariz.) recently departed the Democratic Party to become an independent. If Trump follows her lead and runs for president as an independent he instantly launches the most consequential third-party candidacy in American history. Think about it. Polls now show GOP voters increasingly rejecting the disgraced ex-president as the party’s 2024 nominee. If Republicans turn on him, is there any doubt the notoriously thin-skinned Trump will soon start threatening a run as an independent to spite his former party? A third-party platform allows him to stay in the media spotlight and continue to...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Sunday sidestepped questions about whether he’d leave the Democratic Party after being asked about his comments regarding his serving in the Senate as an “independent voice.” Manchin avoided saying outright if he’d join fellow centrist Sen. Krysten Sinema (I-Ariz.), who shocked Washington earlier this month by announcing that she would become an Independent. The West Virginia Democrat instead criticized hyper-partisanship in Congress and said he would wait and see how the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act “plays out” before making a decision about his affiliation. “If people are trying to stop something...