Four Supreme Court justices were absent during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night in front of both houses of Congress. A review of footage of the area where Supreme Court justices sat during the speech show that Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Samuel Alito weren’t present. Sotomayor was appointed by

President Joe Biden renewed his call for House Republicans to raise the nation’s debt ceiling with no insistence on spending cuts during his State of the Union address on Feb. 7. The president elicited jeers from Republicans when he suggested that they intended to “take the economy hostage” in negotiations over the debt ceiling and

International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva weighed in on the U.S. debt-ceiling standoff, warning in a recent interview that unless U.S. lawmakers take negotiations “very seriously,” then an “unthinkable” debt default can happen, with “very damaging” effects, including even higher interest rates and inflation. Georgieva made the remarks during an interview on CBS that aired

Former President Donald Trump responded to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in real-time, taking to his social media platform, Truth Social, to give his response. Trump announced that he would be offering commentary to the Feb. 7 speech hours before Biden took the stage, saying he would be doing a live and

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted a live-streamed roundtable discussion on Feb. 7, aiming at big media companies who, participants said, play fast and loose with the truth, leaving broken lives in their wake. They discussed the 1964 Supreme Court decision of the New York Times v. Sullivan, which made it nearly impossible for a public

In her response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Feb. 7, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders came down heavily on the administration’s tax policies burdening Americans who are already struggling with decades-high inflation. “In the radical left’s America, Washington taxes you and lights your hard-earned money on fire. But you get

The U.S. House Oversight Committee holds a hearing at 10:00 a.m. ET on Feb. 8, on “Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story.” Former Twitter employees including former Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, former Deputy General Counsel Vijaya Gadde, and former Global Head of

Texas filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Tuesday to block federal health guidance that allegedly forces pharmacies to dispense abortion-inducing drugs. The Biden administration in July 2022 released guidance requiring pharmacies to supply women with abortion-inducing drugs or risk losing Medicaid and Medicare funds, even if certain state laws prohibit the procedure. Texas argues

President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech started with a lighthearted gesture of bipartisan goodwill, but that evaporated as he repeatedly made statements that irked the Republican side of the aisle. His Feb. 7 speech marked the first time that the Democrat president, in office since 2021, faced a Republican-controlled House of Representatives as