Benny Johnson (columnist)

CNN's Audie Cornish and the Group Chat examine Kamala Harris' return to the campaign trail, as she keeps the door open on running again in 2028

Affordability remains a pressing political concern for the Trump administration ahead of the 2026 midterm elections

Social media is erupting over a viral video of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson showing off his dance moves, with the clip quickly spreading across X as users call the performance "embarrassing."

A newly unveiled statue of conservative podcaster and organizer Charlie Kirk was defaced outside Turning Point USA’s headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday

Vice President JD Vance headlined the second night of the Republican midterm convention, rallying GOP voters while lacing into Democrats

She told many stories about her childhood, which led into a trio of fabulous songs: My Tennessee Mountain Home, Applejack, and Dr Robert F Thomas

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed addressed questions about sex changes for minors and transgender athletes in women’s sports during a tense exchange on Fox News Monday night

The sister of Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has drawn attention for a series of past comments and legal controversies that could provide ammunition for Republican attacks in one of the country's most closely watched Senate races

In the days since Dr. El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, Republican leaders have embraced Islamophobic attacks and falsehoods like those three comments to portray him as an anti-American extremist

NBC News host Kristen Welker asked El-Sayed about his support for Medicare for All and whether Americans need to worry about paying more taxes to make it possible

In one video, Mamdani talks about and briefly demonstrates dance moves from Uganda and Nigeria

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld turned a “Five” conversation about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s authenticity into a sexist punchline about the Democratic congresswoman from New York

In an interview with Katie Couric uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, Beshear, a Democrat, did not specify which agencies allegedly called him with the news or when the calls were made

Former U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith's team reviewed text messages from ​44 Republican and Democratic members of Congress during his investigation

The proceedings were frequently bogged down by arguments over whether certain exhibits could be admitted into evidence and publicly broadcast via a camera in the courtroom

In the wake of her primary victory on Tuesday evening in Colorado’s first congressional district, conservatives and social media users expressed alarm at Melat Kiros’s stated views of the 9/11 terror attacks

Three far-left radicals backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their primary elections Tuesday night in a clean sweep by socialist and socialist-adjacent candidates

As she watched President Biden stumble through the most cringeworthy portion of his disastrous June 2024 debate, First Lady Jill Biden wondered if her husband had unknowingly ingested drugs or was having a medical episode on live television

President Donald Trump on Monday tore into ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl, accusing him of pushing a false narrative about a phone call after the latest attempt on the president's life

President Donald Trump’s praise for a hospitalized Rudy Giuliani turned into a rant about the “Radical Left Lunatics” whom he appeared to blame for the ex-Trump lawyer’s condition

In an April 15 press briefing, Fox’s Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt an unexpected question

The FCC, which regulates the broadcast industry, announced its early review on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump publicly called on ABC to fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for a joke he made about first lady Melania Trump last week

Newly minted Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro faces a First Amendment fight now that the FCC has threatened ABC’s station licenses as President Trump calls for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired

Trump administration urges Disney to fire comedian Jimmy Kimmel over Melania joke

Kash Patel found himself under intense scrutiny on Monday morning as Fox News anchors pressed for explanations regarding the security lapses at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which was attended by Donald Trump and his senior Cabinet officials

Donald Trump has lashed out at a reporter over chilling declarations and allegations written in the alleged Washington Correspondent Dinner gunman’s manifesto

A widely circulated version on X appears to have been processed using AI-based editing tools to improve its clarity and resolution

A widely circulated version on X appears to have been processed using AI-based editing tools to improve its clarity and resolution

Representative Brandon Gill, a Texas Republican, has called Somalis in the United States a “net drain” on society

Kamala Harris is criticized for her Trump impersonation at a New York event, which detracted from her points on foreign policy

Harris made her comments while speaking at a forum with the National Action Network, which was founded by the controversial civil rights activist Al Sharpton

The 'First Partner' of California — whose husband has made no secret of his presidential ambitions — told Jen Psaki about the tour of the south she took her kids on in 2023

Kid Rock is firing back at critics who took issue with a pair of Army helicopters doing a flyby at his Tennessee mansion over the weekend

Ilhan Omar after Vice President JD Vance accused her of committing immigration fraud

Johnson, who bills his show as the place for “cutting, behind-the-scenes insight into the global conflict for freedom”, wondered if Vance, who has been noticeably quiet about Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East that he is said to oppose, had yet looked at any of the files about unidentified flying objects — known these days as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) — which the president has promised to release

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday defended his criticism of newly minted Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s resume, despite receiving attacks from conservative pundits

Gavin Newsom's press office again accused conservative journalist Benny Johnson of using the gay dating app Grindr in a shocking post

Johnson then flipped to the back camera and panned around the Grand Foyer, where the Obama portrait was prominently displayed until last year, and tracked up the staircase to show off its new location — seemingly hidden away from thousands of daily White House visitors

At Sunday night's Academy Awards, Kimmel attacked Melania for her eponymous documentary, which was released by Amazon in January

Cheung duly took to X (Twitter) to berate the stand-up comic, well known for ridiculing Trump on his nightly talk show, responding: “Jimmy Kimmel (Mr. Blackface) is a classless hack who is self-projecting his depression and sadness onto others. “He lives a pathetic existence where nobody — not even his family — enjoys his miserable company. The only people giving him any attention are Hollywood Elites. BUH-BYE!”

Each was also asked by the Democratic side whether Trump should come before the committee himself, given his own known past ties to the late financier and sex trafficker

Lauren Boebert gave an absurd reason for giving a right-wing influencer a photograph of Hillary Clinton testifying Thursday during her closed door deposition, possibly breaking House Oversight Committee rules

NEW YORK — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defiantly faced lawmakers for more than six hours in a closed-door deposition Thursday, after the Republican-House Oversight Committee subpoenaed her and her husband Bill Clinton to appear in its investigation into their ties with disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

During a Monday appearance on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” Rock seemed to reveal how thick his right-wing bubble must be when asked about the Latin sensation’s live spectacle

Kid Rock appeared to be in serious denial as he weighed in on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance days after his headlining gig at a rival halftime show put on by conservative organization Turning Point USA

Industry insiders and betting markets alike are pointing to Cardi B as the most likely candidate to join Bad Bunny on stage during the halftime show of Super Bowl LX

That a Spanish-language artist will occupy one of the vanishingly few monocultural venues left in the polarized US feels inevitable yet still improbable

Nationwide public criticism is mounting over federal immigration tactics in Minneapolis, which escalated following Saturday's deadly shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti

FBI Director Kash Patel urged calm and caution as investigations into incidents involving federal agents play out in Minnesota

Several of President Donald Trump's officials drew swift pushback from gun rights groups for their stance after Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, was shot dead by federal agents on Saturday

FBI Director Kash Patel on Sunday announced the arrest of another suspect in connection with the theft of government property from an FBI vehicle vandalized in Minneapolis earlier this month

There are already a few videos on social media, depicting multiple angles of the grotesque scene

Paul Allen, the play-by-play voice for the Minnesota Vikings and a sports radio host on KFAN in the Twin Cities, apologized Monday for what he called an “insensitive” joke suggesting that protesters in the area were mercenaries

In an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, Patel promised additional arrests as part of the ongoing investigation, asserting the unrest is not “organic” but financially supported