Stephen Neukam

Progressive Democrats from New York heckled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) as he spoke to reporters on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday, yelling at the embattled lawmaker to resign and telling Republicans to punt him from Congress. Earlier in the day, House lawmakers pushed the question of whether Santos, who is facing federal charges,...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) weighed in Wednesday on one of the hottest political feuds in his home state, arguing “cooler heads have to prevail” in the battle between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and The Walt Disney Co. “I think we've got to figure out a way forward here to bring everybody back to the...

China has sentenced a 78-year-old U.S. citizen to life in prison on spying charges Monday after the man was detained more than two years ago. John Shing-Wan Leung, who also holds a permanent residence in Hong Kong, was detained by China’s counterintelligence agency in the eastern city of Suzhou on April 15, 2021, according to...

The Senate Democrats’ 2024 election chief said he will not intervene in Republican primaries to make sure perceived “weak” candidates win, which Democrats did in 2022 races across the country. But Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) said tumultuous GOP primaries will advance extreme candidates on their own. “The folks who win Republican primaries tend to be...

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) dinged congressional leadership in both parties on Sunday for their posturing on immigration, including Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) who Gonzales said was “demonizing” illegal immigrants. “You’ve got McCarthy on one side that is demonizing those that come over illegally,” Gonzales said on CBS’s “Face The Nation.” “You’ve got Chuck Schumer on...

GOP Sen. Todd Young (R), whose relationship with former President Trump has frayed after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, said Thursday, the day after Trump's divisive CNN town hall, that he won't be backing the former president's bid to return to White House. “I don’t intend to support him for the Republican nomination,” Young told...

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) joined a chorus of Democratic voices bashing former President Trump for his town hall on CNN on Wednesday, saying he had “a little bit of PTSD watching that last night.” “As someone who was at the Cleveland presidential debate where President Trump ran right over Chris Wallace… I had a little...

After the pandemic knocked millions of Americans back home to continue work and school, the importance of broadband access in the U.S. has come under a microscope. While the transition had sweeping effects on our mental health, the struggle was compounded in states and areas with poor broadband access. Federal and state authorities have directed...

Richard Dreyfuss, the Academy and Golden Globe Award winner, blasted new diversity rules that the Oscars have handed down on movies to be able to be considered for best picture awards, saying the new requirements “make me vomit.” “They make me vomit,” Dreyfuss said on PBS’s “Firing Line.” “This is an art form. It’s also...

Oprah Winfrey lauded the two Tennessee state lawmakers who were briefly expelled from the state’s legislature earlier this year for their protests over gun violence, saying the pair of men are “using their lives to prove the cynics wrong.” Winfrey, delivering the commencement address at Tennessee State University on Saturday, her alma mater, reflected on...