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While Twitter was the preferred social media platform for former President Donald Trump, the entire Republican party's discontent with Twitter posts was tracked in a database Twitter kept of GOP requests to remove posts, according to a new Rolling Stone report.

During a House hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) pointed out that social media accounts are actually giving conservatives an edge on their platforms because there has been such an uprising.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) just found out that Democrats support green energy, but he believes it's all really about Hunter Biden.

Model Chrissy Teigen reacted with astonishment on Wednesday after her obscenity-laced insult directed at Donald Trump was mentioned during a U.S. House hearing.

The courthouse hosting the Alex Murdaugh murder trial was evacuated on Wednesday afternoon after receiving a bomb threat.

Lynda Edwards joined Raw Story in 2022 and reports on social issues, science and religion and how these topics intersect with politics. Prior to joining Raw Story, Lynda covered numerous different beats while working for PBS television's Frontline, The Associated Press, Gannett, the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the ABA Journal — the American Bar Association's monthly magazine). She has also worked as a freelance reporter for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Washington Monthly and Vogue.

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) on Wednesday mocked House Republicans for holding a hearing in which they berated former Twitter executives for allegedly censoring conservatives on the platform.

He's one of the most famous artists in history. But Vincent van Gogh could have faded into obscurity were it not for his family -- and the vision of one woman.

More than half of Switzerland's native fish species are threatened with extinction or are already extinct within the country's waters, a new assessment showed Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) ranted extensively about colleague Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Wednesday after leaving a House Oversight hearing with former Twitter executives.

Do the observed sex differences in self-estimated intelligence among younger adults extend to older adults as well? And what are some psychological correlates of self-estimated intelligence among older adults? These are the research questions pursued by a new paper published in Brain and Behavior. “I am interested in neuropsychological assessment in older people. For many years I was wondering if there is a correlation between actual cognitive performance/intellectual abilities and self-estimated performance in cognitive tasks ... Читать дальше...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) aired her personal grievances against Twitter at a contentious House Oversight hearing on Wednesday.

The official Twitter account for the Republican Party is being trolled for a flawed tweet that was shared on Monday, February 6.

Many across the nation were likely horrified but not surprised Tuesday night when Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and several other House and Senate Republicans lashed out at President Joe Biden as he delivered the State of the Union Address, falsely branding him a "liar" for telling the truth: The GOP has consistently called to gut, sunset, or otherwise dramatically alter or dismantle the critical, life-saving social safety nets of Social Security and Medicare.

"The View" co-hosts weren't impressed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's attention-seeking antics during the State of the Union address.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday hit back at former President Donald Trump, a day after Trump promoted a social media post accusing DeSantis of "grooming" teenage girls.

A psychiatrist had sent a letter to a "lovesick" single mother in Kentucky who has been writing messages to the suspect in the slayings of four University of Idaho students, Newsweek reports.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) earned a mild rebuke from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday when he chided her and other Republicans for letting themselves get "baited" by President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address.

MidFlorida Credit Union in Lakeland is accused of having cops arrest a Black woman who was asking for assistance after a cash deposit that wasn't going through, according to a lawsuit reported by Banking Dive this week.

Failed Arizona candidate Kari Lake said it is "probably true" that a "CIA coup" took control of the United States and caused her to lose the 2022 election for governor.

Fatima Suarez says a stranger broke into her parents’ home with a hammer and then began repeatedly harassing them at their St. Louis home and sending them racist threats, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reports.

Charlie Kirk, the longtime director of the right-wing student group Turning Point USA, is facing a schism as his years-long relationship with "Students for Trump" is falling apart, reported The Washington Post on Wednesday.

The mistress of an indicted FBI agent this week spilled secrets about his use of a burner phone, mysterious contacts, envelope exchanges at upscale restaurants and a baggie full of cash.

House Republicans on Tuesday night loudly heckled President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is now sending them a public warning about the optics.

Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina attorney now on trial for the murder of his family, came from a powerful dynasty of lawyers and has an impressive résumé to his name, volunteering in a local prosecutor's office and heading up the state trial lawyers' association.