The former Illinois representative urges a new primary challenge for the “reckless” and “incompetent” president. Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), the conservative talk-show host and prominent “tea party” figure, on Wednesday called President Donald Trump an “unfit conman” and a “racial arsonist” and urged a primary challenge for the Republican nomination next year.  Walsh also apologized both for his...

The brand is one of more than 20 that have stopped advertising during the Fox News host’s show because of his offensive rhetoric. Fox News and host Tucker Carlson are losing more advertisers. Long John Silver’s will no longer advertise on Fox News, as confirmed to Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone. Nestlé and HelloFresh, which have advertised on...

The Trump administration, in an apparent drive to erase any vestige of President Obama’s tenure, will end a three-year-old program that allowed family members of Filipino World War II veterans to stay in the US while waiting for their green cards to be approved, a process that can take decades. On...

The law would require Trump to release his tax returns in order to appear on the state’s primary ballot next year. President Donald Trump and his campaign and the Republican National Committee filed a pair of lawsuits on Tuesday challenging a new California law that requires all presidential and gubernatorial candidates to publicly release their tax returns...

The Galveston Police Department issued an official apology for any “unnecessary embarrassment” caused by the incident. The Galveston Police Department issued an apology on Monday evening after an image was circulated on social media showing two mounted officers, both white, leading a handcuffed black man behind their horses, attached by what...

Former President Barack Obama called for stricter gun control laws in a Monday statement after two mass shootings over the weekend left more than 30 people dead in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. “We are not helpless here,” Obama said in a statement posted on Twitter. “And until all of...

Several Republican officials declined to appear on the network after 29 people were killed in less than 24 hours in Texas and Ohio. In the aftermath of two shootings in Texas and Ohio that all told killed 29 people in less than 24 hours, Republican leaders declined CNNrequests to talk on air about the mass...