Donald Trump is cashing in on his convictions in the first trial of a former or current president in the nation's history. The former president's campaign announced on Friday morning that it had hauled in $34.8 million in fundraising from 6pm ET to midnight on Thursday, immediately after Trump was found guilty of all 34 felony counts in his criminal trial in New York City. The campaign highlighted in a release that they raked in "a record shattering small dollar fundraising haul" as...

Donald Trump’s pollsters argued he could weather a guilty verdict — that a conviction in a case prosecuted by a Democrat in a deep-blue state was already priced into his political brand with the American public. They’re about to find out whether they’re right. For weeks, even as the trial and its tawdry details unfolded, public polling barely budged in the presidential race. But a conviction throws Trump into entirely uncharted territory, with at least some polling suggesting...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared to make an indirect reference to former President Donald Trump’s conviction Thursday night at the 23rd annual Global Leadership Awards, hosted by the nonprofit Vital Voices Global Partnership. Clinton, who lost to Trump in the 2016 election, thanked the audience as she arrived on stage at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., before asking, “Anything going on today?” After the audience erupted...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) officially left the Democratic Party on Friday and registered as an independent. Why it matters: Manchin, who flirted with an independent presidential bid earlier this year, has said he's not running for Senate re-election. But leaving the party could give him the flexibility to change tack and run for Senate or West Virginia governor as an independent. The intrigue: June 1 is West Virginia's deadline for...

Health policy and politics are inextricably linked. Policy is about what the government can do to shift the financing, delivery, and quality of health care, so who controls the government has the power to shape those policies.  Elections, therefore, always have consequences for the direction of health policy – who is the president and in control of the executive branch, which party has the majority in the House and the Senate with the ability to steer legislation, and who has control in...

After months of turmoil and sharp criticism from some alumni and donors, Harvard University said Tuesday that it would no longer take positions on issues that are not “relevant to the core function of the university.” In doing so, the Ivy League school has not fully embraced “institutional neutrality” but is stepping away from statements that express solidarity and empathy, such as those the university issued after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Hamas’ attack on Israel, and other...

How can you follow Jesus and Donald Trump? Many are not following a man, they are shaping a movement. A better, biblical question to ask is, “What direction is the country heading?” The short answer to whether Christians can support Donald Trump is absolutely, especially after a sham trial that resembles Venezuela more than America.

After months of controversy over the Israel-Hamas war, Harvard University said Tuesday that its administration will no longer issue official statements about public matters unless they directly affect “the university’s core function.” The school made the announcement more than a month after an Institutional Voice Working Group was established to consider whether Harvard should stop taking positions on weighty social and political matters. It comes as institutions around the country...

The Texas Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Friday to uphold the state’s near-total abortion ban, denying claims that the law risks the lives of Texans with severe pregnancy complications. “Texas law permits a life-saving abortion,” the majority opinion written by Justice Jane Bland reads. “The law permits a physician to intervene to address a woman’s life-threatening condition before death or serious physical impairment are imminent.”

Harvard University has announced it will stop using its institutional voice to weigh in on “matters that do not directly affect the university’s core function.” We’d love to applaud this as a return to sanity, but the move looks purely cynical. Look: There’s no earthly reason a university should ever comment as a school on contentious social issues.  Harvard has one mission: to educate.  And between its insane DEI policies and the wider...