Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is now openly feuding with Jennifer Lawrence

Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is feuding with Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Amy Sussman/Getty Images Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is openly feuding with actress Jennifer Lawrence. Last week, Lawrence called Vance a "rich twat" and accused him of faking his "hillbilly" persona. Vance said she "should leave […]

The Apprentice-Style, Times Reveals Its Democratic Candidate Endorsements, Warren and Klobuchar, on FX Series

RELATED STORIES “You’re endorsed!” The New York Times used its Sunday-night TV newsmagazine, The Weekly, to build up to and then reveal its endorsements for the Democratic presidential race: Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar. Explaining the split vote, the Times said in a statement, “In this perilous moment, both the radical […]

Andrew Yang Hails SNL’s Bowen Yang for Playing Presidential Candidate

RELATED STORIES Saturday Night Live earned Andrew Yang’s vote for using newcomer Bowen Yang —- the show’s first East Asian cast member, ever — to portray the Democratic presidential candidate in this weekend’s Season 45 premiere. In an “Impeachment Town Hall” sketch, Cecily Strong as CNN’s Erin Burnett moderated the “muddled 10-person debate,” starting off […]

Piers Morgan reveals ‘highly intelligent’ Tory leader candidate who has impressed him

Piers Morgan claimed Michael Gove impressed him the most as Conservative leadership candidates officially put themselves forward for the job of leader and Prime Minister on Monday. Five leadership contestants delivered speeches as they outlined what they would do if they were elected as leader of the Conservative Party. Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, host […]

Trump jokes about Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Democratic Senate candidate: I like her music ‘25% less’ now

Andrew H. Walker/Getty President Donald Trump said he likes Taylor Swift’s music “about 25% less” now that she’s endorsed two Democratic candidates running in her home state of Tennessee ahead of the November midterm elections. Swift shared her endorsement with her 112 million followers on Instagram Sunday night. It’s the first time she publicly revealed […]

Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro will face-off against leftist challenger in runoff after Brazil vote

AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo Far-right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro won nearly half the votes in Brazil’s first-round presidential election. Bolsonaro won 46.3 percent of valid ballots, far ahead of leftist Fernando Haddad’s 29 percent but short of the outright majority needed to avoid a runoff election.  The two will face-off in a second round of voting on October […]

Anti-US base candidate wins Okinawa governor elections

A staunch opponent of the planned relocation of a US military base within Okinawa Island, where the issue sparked major public protests, has beaten a government-backed competitor in the local governor elections. Read more Denny Tamaki, a former opposition lawmaker and a son of the US marine, has got a win against Atsushi Sakima, the […]

‘Racially profiled & humiliated’: Black candidate busted for dealing politics seeks apology

An African-American nominee for the Wisconsin State Assembly told RT that she felt hurt and humiliated after being racially profiled and reported to cops as she was canvassing her electorate in a predominantly white neighborhood. Ahead of the Democratic primary for a state Assembly seat in Wisconsin’s 77th District, Shelia Stubbs was knocking on doors […]

California man arrested for trying to stab Republican Congress candidate

Alameda County police have arrested a knife-wielding man who reportedly attacked congressional candidate Rudy Peters with a switchblade after making “disparaging remarks” about the GOP. The suspect in the assault on Peters, who was only referred to as “a political candidate for a local congressional seat” in the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office report, has been […]

Oklahoma zookeeper and failed presidential candidate ‘Joe Exotic’ was indicted in an alleged murder-for-hire plot

AP Oklahoma zookeeper Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known across the web as “Joe Exotic,” was indicted last week for an alleged murder-for-hire plot. Maldonado-Passage was officially charged with two counts of hiring a person to commit murder and could face up to ten years in prison per count. Although an official statement released by the US Department […]