More than 30 years after the world was first introduced to Mr. Bean‚ some fans are wondering if they know this delightful oddball at all.

Legal experts are weighing in on the chances former President Trump will go to trial before the 2024 election— and the predictions are in his favor.  Phil Holloway said that there is “no way” any legal cases that Trump faces will go to trial before he faces President Joe Biden in November. “There’s no way on God’s green earth that’s going to happen!” Holloway said‚ reacting to podcast host Benny Johnson’s question on the possibility Trump finds himself in court facing jurors anytime...

In announcing his choice for vice president‚ independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his running mate‚ Nicole Shanahan‚ made statements that were false or misleading: There’s no evidence that vaccines cause autism‚ contrary to the impression Shanahan left in questioning the safety of “one shot on top of another shot … throughout the course of childhood” just before citing an increase in the prevalence of autism. Kennedy wrongly blamed President Joe Biden for shutting...

President Joe Biden is widening a critical window for low-income Americans to join Obamacare‚ in a move aimed at reinforcing a central element of his reelection bid: That he presided over a historic expansion of health care coverage. Tens of millions of people eliminated from Medicaid would now have until Nov. 30 to sign up for new coverage under a plan to be announced Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services and first shared with POLITICO — an extension from the July 31...

Joseph Lieberman‚ four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut‚ was noteworthy for two reasons‚ one of special interest to this magazine‚ the other of interest to the nation. In 1988 WFB‚ a Connecticut resident‚ had had it with Senator Lowell Weicker who‚ besides being politically undesirable — he was a liberal Republican — was gaseous and vain. Democrats had taken control of the Senate two years earlier so keeping a nominal R no longer mattered. Bill accordingly endorsed Joe Lieberman‚ the...

Social Security has formed the bedrock of financial means for millions of Americans for generations. Paying out billions in retirement funds and welfare aid each year‚ the program has endured since the Social Security Act was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935‚ following the worst financial crisis of the 20th century. But as Donald Trump gears up for his third run for the White House in November's presidential election‚ experts have warned that his comments...

Chicago’s decision to move forward with a controversial migrant eviction proposal is underscoring ongoing gaps in immigration policy that continue to exist across the country — and the inhumane quick fixes that are being used in the meantime. Earlier this month‚ Chicago began evicting migrants from homeless shelters after Mayor Brandon Johnson instituted a policy stating that people must leave these centers after 60 days. The goal‚ Johnson has said‚ is to incentivize...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reversed his decision to cancel a top-level delegation to Washington. The reversal means the U.S. and Israel will continue their face-off over Israel's planned military invasion to remove the last four Hamas battalions from the Gazan stronghold in Rafah. After the U.S. refused to veto Monday's U.N. Security Council Gaza resolution‚ Netanyahu canceled a planned visit to Washington of two war cabinet officials. It was a way to let Hamas...