Taylor Swift effect | Despite flailing economy, fans expected to open wallets this weekend
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Taylor Swift’s new album will be released on Friday, and even in a turbulent economy, Swifties are expected to open their wallets.
Search Results for Donald Trump
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The 20 | MAGA House seats that Virginia Democrats could flip in the 2025 cycle
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I spent a couple of hours one afternoon last week poring over the Virginia Public Access Project website to get a sense of what MAGA-incumbent House of Delegates races might be in play in the 2025 cycle.
The bag o’money | Tom Homan investigation began because of blundering buddy
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The FBI investigation, now shuttered, into White House border czar Tom Homan and the $50,000 bag o’money, began after a Homan associate reached out to undercover agents.
Pants on fire | MAGA House candidate tries to spin Spanberger ‘rage’
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Kim Taylor, a Republican state delegate who you had not heard of until a few days ago, is trying to make Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger talking about “rage” into being the reason a rando sent Taylor a threatening message.
Government shutdown | National Parks would likely close, furlough 68 percent of staff
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If National Park employees are furloughed due to a government shutdown, keeping sites open would be “reckless,” experts say.
Three dead in North Carolina bar shooting; four dead in Michigan church shooting, fire
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A Marine veteran who filed a lawsuit earlier this year alleging that LGBT supremacists and pedophiles were trying to murder him because he’s a “straight man” shot up a restaurant in North Carolina Saturday night, killing three and injuring eight.
The Ben Cline ‘town hall’ | Turns out, plenty of good seats were still available
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Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline held his “town hall” in Lexington on Thursday, in front of 33 apparently very lucky folks, in a room that one attendee said could have easily accommodated 100, and another estimated, 120.
TikTok| Buyer consortium purchases social media app to prevent U.S. ban
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A ban of TikTok in the United States has been avoided with a presidential executive order to allow a buyer consortium to purchase the app.
Analysis | Bad news: We are hurtling toward another government shutdown
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Congressional MAGA Republicans and the Trump administration want you to believe that the looming government shutdown will be the fault of Democrats, which, not true.
France, Brazil, Philippines show us how to handle criminal former presidents
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How you should treat a criminal president is what we saw in action this week in France, where a court found former French president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy.
