Tom Durante

4 days ago | mediaite.com | Tom Durante

SHANNON BREAM: Well, you all have built a friendship outside of what you’re doing professionally, personally, as well. Senator McCormick, you’ve come to Senator Fetterman’s defense in a number of recent articles that have had questions about how he’s doing about how he’s doing his job. The Philadelphia Inquirer had a piece this weekend not questioning your ability, Senator Fetterman, to do the job but your desire or willingness to do it. I covered your campaign.

4 days ago | mediaite.com | Tom Durante

An Idaho woman who was among the hundreds of people busted in the January 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol in 2021 is fighting to return the pardon she received from President Donald Trump, CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports. Pamela Hemphill, the Idaho woman branded “MAGA Granny” after she was detained for her involvement in the chaos at the Capitol, says she has appealed to Sen.

4 days ago | mediaite.com | Tom Durante

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s chronicle of former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline as he sought a second White House term has soared to the top of multiple bestseller lists, despite assertions it would crater at bookshops. Amazon, The New York Times, and the U.K.’s Sunday Times all have Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again as their No. 1 seller. The book’s popularity has come as a surprise to naysayers who trashed it.

4 days ago | mediaite.com | Tom Durante

Panicked tourists have been seen fleeing in fear as Italy’s Mount Etna suddenly erupted Monday, sending a thick cloud of ash into the sky. Videos posted to social media show Etna, one of world’s most active volcanoes, spewing dark smoke in a scene that took many hikers around the mountain by complete surprise. #ITALY: New video shows Mount #Etna erupting.

1 week ago | mediaite.com | Tom Durante

Former President Joe Biden lamented how “divided” and “bitter” politics has become in his first public appearance since his shocking cancer announcement. Speaking at a Memorial Day ceremony in New Castle, Delaware, Biden gestured passionately as he complained that the business of politics has lost its way. “Our politics have become so divided and so bitter,” Biden declared. “All the years I’ve been doing this, I never thought we’d get to this point. But we are.