Jon Stewart knocks Cruz no vote on burn pit bill

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Manchin mum on whether Democrats should hold Congress after midterms

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Sunday sidestepped questions about whether he hopes his party retains control of Congress after this year’s midterm elections. “I think the Democrats have great candidates that are running. They're good people I've worked with. And I have a tremendous amount of respect and friendship with my Republican colleagues,” Manchin told moderator Chuck

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Manchin refuses to say whether he would support Biden in 2024

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Sunday would not answer directly when asked if he would support President Biden if he ran for reelection in 2024.   “I'm not going I'm not getting into 2022 or 2024,” Manchin told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.” “Whoever is my president, that's my president. And Joe Biden is my president right now.” The centrist senator has spent the past week

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Democrats across the country can learn from Tim Ryan’s success

As national Democrats strategize ahead of the midterms, the party would be wise to take note of the Democratic Senate candidate in Ohio, Rep. Tim Ryan. Ryan is emerging as a sleeper candidate to flip a solid red seat blue — and is arguably becoming a model for the Democratic Party going forward.  Indeed, amid a national political environment that is highly unfavorable toward Democrats, Ryan has a realistic chance of winning a reliably Republican Senate seat in a state that Donald Trump won by 8-points in both 

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NASA knocks Chinese officials for falling debris

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is calling out China for failing to share information about debris from a rocket booster falling back to Earth. “All spacefaring nations should follow established best practices, and do their part to share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk,” the former senator said in a statement on Saturday. The China Manned Space Agency re

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