Ted Johnson

Kari Lake, the former TV news anchor and U.S. Senate candidate, used a moment of her speaking slot at the Republican National Convention to express a common theme: Bashing the media. “Welcome to everybody in this great arena tonight. We love you all. Actually, actually, wait a minute. I don’t mean that. I don’t welcome […]

Savannah Chrisley, the reality star, blasted prosecutors in her speech at the Republican National Convention, claiming that her parents were “persecuted” by the justice system “due to our public profile and conservative beliefs.” Her parents, Todd Chrisley and his wife Julie Chrisley, stars of the reality series Chrisley Knows Best, are serving sentences in prison […]

President Joe Biden canceled a speaking engagement before UnidosUS today after he tested positive for Covid.

As one of the first big name speakers on the first night of the Republican National Convention, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) delivered a speech that started off somberly in references to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but quickly went into some of the red meat rhetoric that is her specialty. “For far too […]

Conspicuously absent from the cable news lineup this AM was Morning Joe, with MSNBC pre-empting the show in favor of an NBC News and NBC News Now special report in the wake of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. The show, hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, is scheduled to return on Tuesday. CNN, […]

UPDATED: Donald Trump has selected Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his vice presidential running mate. Vance, first elected in 2022, rose to national prominence during Trump’s run for the White House in 2016, as his memoir Hillbilly Elegy became a national best-seller and he was called upon to explain the appeal of the Celebrity Apprentice […]

Shannen Doherty, who starred as the angst-filled teenager Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills 90210 and later the good witch Prue on Charmed, has died. She was 53. Her publicist, Leslie Sloane, said in a statement, “It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13, she […]

Joe Biden said that he has ordered an independent review on national security at Donald Trump‘s rally “to address exactly what happened” in the assassination attempt on the former president. Much of the focus has been on how the shooter was able to gain access to rooftop vantage point, where he was able to aim […]

Donald Trump plans to trek to Milwaukee today after surviving an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, PA. “Based on yesterday’s terrible events, I was going to delay my trip to Wisconsin, and The Republican National Convention, by two days, but have just decided that I cannot allow a “shooter,” or potential assassin, to […]

Actor-director Tim Robbins is calling out the conspiracy theories following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, including that it was a staged event akin to a plot point in his 1992 movie Bob Roberts. Robbins wrote on X/Twitter, “To anyone drawing a parallel between my film Bob Roberts and the attempted assassination of Trump, let’s […]