Gop Weekend Absentee

Sixers' Joel Embiid, Paul George out Saturday vs. Grizzlies, despite being full participants at practice

Embiid and Geroge have missed Philadelphia's first four games

Sports - CBS Sports - 4 days ago

Jets show life, beat Texans behind Garrett Wilson's all-time catch; NFL, college football picks this weekend

Wilson caught two touchdown passes, and Davante Adams had his first as a Jet

Sports - CBS Sports - 4 days ago

So, who’s going to win? — What we know going into the final weekend of the presidential race

The presidential election is coming down to the wire with polls showing a historically close race. Never before have so many states been so close in the polls. As of Friday evening, neither ...

Politics - The Hill - 4 days ago

Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich out indefinitely after weekend health issue

Popovich, 75, wasn't able to coach the Spurs on Saturday when they took on the Timberwolves.

Sports - Yahoo Sports - Yesterday

More tornadoes could hit Oklahoma after weekend of severe weather batters state

More severe weather is on the way for Oklahoma after a weekend of destruction caused by heavy rainfall and a string of tornadoes.

Kari Lake's fraud claims drive Arizona lawyers away from GOP's 'election integrity' operation

Republican lawyers in Arizona are keeping their distance from the party's 2024 "election integrity" efforts amid Kari Lake’s unfounded fraud

Former GOP rep says 'silent group of women' will help push Harris to win

Former Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock (R) warned of the dangers of former President Trump winning another White House but also downplayed his chances of doing so, saying there's a "silent group of ...

Politics - The Hill - October 16

GOP donors pour hundreds of millions into pro-Trump super PACs before Election Day

Republican megadonors are opening up their checkbooks to help Donald Trump and other Republicans as Kamala Harris’ fundraising breaks records.

An AI-powered bot army on X spread pro-Trump and pro-GOP propaganda, research shows

The bot network supported Republican candidates in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania and boosted North Carolina’s Republican-led voter identification law.

GOP claims widespread voting by non-citizens but officials say impact is extremely rare

Claims of voting by non-citizens are part of a national Republican effort to challenge voter applications called "Protect the Vote," but Democrats allege it's a way to sow confusion. Officials say ...

GOP-led probe disputes ex-White House aide's House Jan. 6 testimony about note

A Republican-led House panel reviewing the work of the House committee that investigated Jan. 6 has released a report that Republicans say disputes a piece of testimony.

Michigan judge rebuffs GOP bid to block some overseas, military family ballots

Judge Sima Patel ruled the effort was mounted too close to Election Day, calling it an "11th hour attempt to disenfranchise" voters.

Harris, Cheney work to sway undecided voters, GOP women in 3 battleground states

Vice President Kamala Harris held a series of moderated conversations with former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney in suburban cities in battleground states.

GOP rep gives Trump 'french fries certification pin' during stop in storm-ravaged NC town

North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards (R) gave former President Trump a "french fries certification pin" honoring the former president's appearance working the drive-thru at a McDonald's over the ...

Politics - The Hill - October 22

GOP pollster Frank Luntz: Harris momentum 'froze' when she went 'anti-Trump'

Republican pollster Frank Luntz in a recent interview said Vice President Harris could come up short in November, suggesting her momentum "froze" when she went ‘anti-Trump." Luntz said Harris’s ...

Politics - The Hill - October 23

Trump is the only GOP candidate some young voters have ever known. It's shaped their worldview.

Young voters born in the mid-to-late '90s have faced three election cycles where the stakes seem massive, the candidates don’t feel fresh and Trump has been a constant on the ballot, they said.

CNN's Jim Acosta to Georgia GOP chair: 'What you're saying is horse crap'

CNN anchor Jim Acosta and a top Georgia Republican sparred Thursday over former President Trump's false claims of a stolen election in 2020. “You’re making suggestions that that there was some kind ...

Politics - The Hill - October 24

Lee says Senate GOP leadership candidates must call out McConnell for Trump criticism

Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is calling on Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the two frontrunners to succeed Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), ...

Politics - The Hill - October 25

Former GOP Rep. Tom Rice helped impeach Trump — but won't vote for Harris

Former Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.), one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, said he will vote for neither Trump nor Vice ...