Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel announced Monday morning that she would step down from leading the GOP early next month after more than seven years at the helm. "It has been the honor and privilege of my life to serve the Republican National Committee for seven years as Chairwoman to elect Republicans and grow our Party‚" McDaniel said in a statement on Monday. "Some of my proudest accomplishments include firing Nancy Pelosi‚ winning the popular vote in 2022‚ creating...

Given the extra scrutiny and large number of doses‚ reports of possible side effects to a vaccine safety monitoring system increased with the COVID-19 vaccines. The high number of reports does not mean the vaccines are unsafe‚ contrary to suggestions made by posts sharing a clip of a Food and Drug Administration official acknowledging the surge. How do we know vaccines are safe? The COVID-19 vaccines are remarkably safe and only rarely cause serious side effects. Despite the good safety...

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Mike Johnson have virtually no relationship. The two men holding the most powerful elected positions in the country have rarely talked. They don’t know each other. They are decades apart in age and miles apart in political philosophy. Their lack of a meaningful relationship — let alone any relationship at all — has contributed to political friction and standstills over the past few months. But it’s putting an additional strain on the nation’s...

The federal government coordinates with and provides funding to non-governmental organizations that provide services such as food‚ shelter and transportation to noncitizens at the Mexican border. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact‚ a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View this fact brief on Wisconsin Watch.

The U.S. should seek trade agreements for both economic and security reasons The decline of the Soviet Union in the 1980s profoundly changed the environment for U.S. trade policy. Trade relationships that disproportionately benefited America’s partners lost a crucial geostrategic justification. Yet the U.S. did not adjust. Outdated trade policy eventually helped breed a sustained protectionist reaction. But protectionists now risk mirroring the pro-trade side’s earlier mistake....

An active duty U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire this weekend outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington‚ D.C.‚ declaring "Free Palestine" as he did so‚ has captured global attention. The video showed Aaron Bushnell‚ 25‚ walk up to the driveway of the Israeli embassy‚ set his phone down on the ground and pour an unknown liquid from a bottle over himself and ignite it while yelling "Free Palestine" repeatedly. Among the commentary that followed‚ several social media users...

From October 2023 and into early 2024‚ many online shared a video claiming to show five Israeli or Palestinian children being held hostage in chicken coop cages.  The conflict began on Oct. 7‚ 2023‚ with Hamas launching a surprise attack on Israel by air‚ sea and land. More than 1‚100 people were killed in the attack‚ including children.

A former Missouri Democratic senator-turned-MSNBC regular demanded this week that the New York Times and other media stop fact-checking President Biden‚ suggesting not enough attention has been given to former President Trump's purported "vomits [of] lies." "I move that every newspaper in America quit doing any fact checks on Joe Biden until they fact-check Donald Trump every morning on the front page‚" Claire McCaskill said‚ name-dropping the Gray Lady after it published a lengthy...

Alexei Navalny was about to be freed in a prisoner swap when he died‚ according to his ally Maria Pevchikh. She said the Russian opposition leader was going to be exchanged for Vadim Krasikov‚ a Russian hitman who is serving a life sentence for murder in Germany. Two US citizens currently held in Russia were also going to be part of the deal‚ Ms Pevchikh claimed. She added that negotiations were at their final stage on 15 February. The next day‚ Mr Navalny died in his cell in the...

On the same day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022‚ a law banning nearly all abortions in South Dakota took effect. This so-called trigger law was passed by South Dakota lawmakers in 2005 and immediately became one of the strictest bans in the nation‚ with no exceptions even for rape or incest. Now a South Dakota ballot measure to “restore Roe v. Wade” is moving forward‚ despite opposition not just from Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion advocacy groups...