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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is T...

The day that Hurricane Andrew touched down in Florida in 1992, J.W. Greenberg—executive vice president of the finance and insurance giant Am...

This week, we learned that Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito spoke privately with Donald Trump to recommend a former clerk for a job. Jamie...

The Senate voted to advance a bill Thursday that would allow the government to detain undocumented immigrants accused of committing nonviole...

The leader of Germany’s nativist far-right party wants us to believe that Adolf Hitler was actually a raging communist. Alternative for Germ...

The fires sweeping through Los Angeles aregoing to leave hundreds or perhaps thousands homeless. The speed at which thefires have spread h...

While one of the most devastating wildfires in American history rages on in Southern California, Republicans in Congress have decided to foc...

The right is blaming diversity, equity, and inclusion and “wokeness” for the response to massive wildfires in Southern California.Several co...

Elon has zeroed in on his next political target: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.The world’s richest man has been consulting with his right-w...

The highest court in New York has declined Donald Trump’s request that they stop his scheduled sentencing in his hush-money case on Friday....

Elon Musk is reneging on his biggest DOGE promise.In a live interview on X Wednesday evening with political strategist Mark Penn, the billio...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is Th...

With wildfires raging in Los Angeles, Donald Trump unleashed some ugly and hateful tirades on Truth Social. He attacked California Governor...

After Donald Trump said he’d like to make Canada our 51st state, Ontario Premier Doug Ford made a counteroffer: “How about if we buy Alaska?...

Officials at the Federal Reserve are worried that Trump’s policies will cause inflation to rise once again. Recent meeting notes included fo...

During the 2024 elections, the Israel lobby poured at least $45.2 million into winning candidates for Congress, the most by any organization...

Within hours of announcing Meta’s policy changes to return the company to its “roots of free expression,” the company has already begun cens...

Donald Trump’s crazy idea to annex Greenland to the United States seems to have an unlikely supporter: Democratic Senator John Fetterman. Fe...

Republicans are using the devastating California wildfires as an excuse to score cheap political points against Democrats and Governor Gavin...

Los Angeles authorities have evacuated some 30,000 people as of Wednesday, as flames tear through the Pacific Palisades, threatening more th...

Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg (wearing a $900,000 watch) announced yesterday morning that across their over-7-billion-user-strong social media...

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that he will release some of the details from special counsel Jack Smith’s final report...

Former Representative Matt Gaetz is considering running for office again, just weeks after getting chased out of the last one. Gaetz, the Fl...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is T...

Early in Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, the retired teacher Olive Kitteridge reads all of the memoirs by Lucy Barton,...