Theatrical brutality makes people believe they have power, even if they don’t.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang officially announced he is running for mayor of New York City.

The same lawmakers who obsessed over Benghazi are downplaying the attack on the Capitol.

A group of GOP lawmakers in the House, angered by new security rules, bypassed the magnetometers or pushed past security despite setting off the alarm.

Though famed atheist Richard Dawkins has often criticized political correctness and advocated free speech, he ultimately supported Twitter's decision to permanently ban President Trump from its platform.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told members of his GOP conference on a call Monday that the riot at the Capitol was not caused by antifa, urging lawmakers not to further spread misinformation about the pro-Trump mob that stormed the House and Senate last week.

As he faces a lonely end to his presidency, Donald Trump learned Sunday evening that, in the wake of last week's riot at the U.S. Capitol, he has lost one of the relationships he values most: his partnership with the Professional Golfers' Association. While the embattled president has been hunkered down to try and preserve his political career, the PGA of America, the proprietors of one of golf's four major championship tournaments, announced that it plans to move its 2022 PGA Championship away from Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.

Why do so many Republicans appear to be at war with both truth and democracy?

In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.

When President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law in December, so began the 180-day countdown for US intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs.

Amazon's decision came amid calls for the company to stop providing services to Parler, after people used the site to plan the deadly Capitol riots.

“I wasn't thinking that it would just disappear one day.”

John Matze and Jack Dorsey, the CEOs of Parler and Twitter were at at odds with each other, and posted on their own sites about Apple's ban of Parler.

You may have heard that Derrick Evans, a newly elected Republican delegate from West Virginia, has resigned after getting arrested and charged with federal crimes for his role in the Capitol siege. The moron incriminated himself when he was seen shouting “Move! Move!” as well as “We’re in, we’re in! Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!”… on the footage he was taking.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has branded Donald Trump ‘a failed leader’ and said he will go down as ‘the worst president ever’ in a new video. Posting to Twitter, the actor recalled his childhood growing up in Austria and the long-lasting impact of the Night of Broken Glass, ‘a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys,’ he said.

Following the permanent suspension of Donald Trump from Twitter, many are now referring to the outgoing president as “a Home Alone extra”. People are also calling for his cameo appearance in 1992 sequel Home Alone: Lost in New York to be digitally removed ahead of its televised showings later this year.

New research published in the journal Political Psychology provides evidence that political partisanship can reverse the expected effects of empathy. ...

With two weeks left in Donald Trump’s presidency, Mick Mulvaney has resigned from the administration. “I can’t do it. I can’t stay,” he told CNBC. That’s newsworthy in the most banal sense; Mulvaney is the rare Trump official to last four years in a chaotic administration.

None of his previous tweets can be seen.

Xena: Warrior Princess actress Lucy Lawless is slamming her former costar Kevin Sorbo for supporting the baseless claim that it was "leftist agitators" who broke into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.