Mitch McConnell

Photo: Tetra Images (Getty Images)You’ve probably noticed that your wi-fi slows down when more people or devices use the network. The same goes for larger systems. If you get too many people congregating in one area, the cell phone towers can’t handle the influx. With the number of connected devices growing exponentially and the coming wave of AI poised to make the problem even worse, there are major wireless traffic jams on the horizon. Now, scientists at the University of Florida have a potential solution: just make the…

The Republican leader’s decision to throw his support behind his tormentor is not surprising Donald Trump has called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a “Broken Down Crow,” a “dumb son of a bitch,” a “stone-cold loser,” a “RINO,” leveled racist insults at his wife, and accused him of having a “death wish” for supporting bills opposed by the former president.  None of this stopped McConnell from endorsing Trump’s bid to retake the White House this November.  On Wednesday, McConnell…

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump‘s bizarre moment at the southern border this week, as well as Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announcing he’ll step down as his party’s Senate leader. Trump, who toured the Texas-Mexico border Thursday alongside the increasingly militant Gov. Greg Abbott, at one point waved at migrants through a barbed wire fence and claimed, “They like Trump, can you believe it?” Co-anchor Colin Jost offered a rational response, given Trump’s Hilter-adjascent…

The longtime Republican Senate leader announced on Wednesday that he will step down from the Senate in November Mitch McConnell is stepping down from Congress. The Kentucky Republican is announcing on Wednesday that he will leave his post leading Senate Republicans in November. “One of life’s most under-appreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter,” he said in an address before the Senate. “So I stand before you today … to say that this will be my last term as…

The Senate passed a $95.3 billion aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan in a bipartisan vote early Tuesday morning — but like pretty much everything these days, it seems destined to end up in the House GOP’s legislative graveyard.  In a 70-22 vote, a rare supermajority in the upper chamber, the Senate approved $60 billion in aid for Ukraine in its ongoing war against Russia, $23 billion in security and humanitarian assistance to Israel, and $4.8 billion for partners in the Indo-Pacific region.  They…

When superstar musicians, Hollywood titans, and television power brokers make dumb decisions, the results are pretty negligible. We wind up with a free U2 album on our iPhone, an unfulfilling conclusion to the Godfather saga, or The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.  But when politicians make dumb decisions, the results are quite a bit more serious. If the political ruling class had just a little more sense, we might live in a world where Al Gore was president, Sarah Palin never became a national…

Donald Trump’s account was recently unbanned on Twitter, though he’s been restricted in posting due to an ongoing deal with his company Truth Social.Image: kovop (Shutterstock)Twitter has seen its share of political bot campaigns, but since spring 2022 there’s been a long-running, highly prolific bot campaign proliferating through Twitter to support former President Donald Trump. Even if you first thought it’s just the Russians again, a new report suggests these fake accounts were created a little closer to home.A report…

WASHINGTON—A deeply divided Congress will return to work this week, pushing ahead with partisan priorities in the Senate and House while also gearing up for a fight over how lawmakers will address raising the debt ceiling before a potential default later this year. The Senate, narrowly controlled by Democrats as it opens its new session, is expected to focus primarily on confirming President Biden’s executive and judicial nominees in the coming weeks. Immigration is emerging as one area of possible compromise after a…

Photo: CHANDAN KHANNA (Getty Images)Parents are calling on Congress to enact stricter rules monitoring kids’ data and accounts on social media, claiming the platforms played a part in causing their children’s harm or even death.In a letter to Congressional members including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), and others, 55 parents wrote they lost their children, listed as ages 10 through 21years old to “fentanyl poisoning…

Image: DC ComicsWhen people think of Stan Lee, they think of Marvel. Thanks to his cameos in many of the biggest movie blockbusters of all time, they likely always will. But there was a time when Stan the Man didn’t work for Marvel, and created his own projects hoping to replicate his success. The most shocking one was, undoubtedly, when Lee collaborated with DC Comics—Marvel’s eternal rival—to reinterpret DC’s biggest superheroes through his own lens. The result was a series called “Just Imagine,” and now DC’s bringing…