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In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida described the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump as “stupid” and slammed Democratic Party politicians. The House of Representatives impeached Trump last week, claiming that he incited an insurrection against the U.S. government when he told his supporters […]

In an interview with Fox News broadcast on Sunday, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida discussed Wednesday’s riots at the U.S. Capitol. Per Newsmax, Rubio said that President Donald Trump bears “some responsibility” for the violence that broke out after his rally in Washington, D.C. He added that both the commander-in-chief and the GOP have […]

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida caused a stir on Sunday when he suggested that American socialists have embraced the Democratic Party. “Not every democrat is a socialist,” Rubio wrote in a Twitter message, “but every socialist is a democrat.” Commentators, journalists and politicians were quick to mock Rubio’s claim. “So many people on the […]

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida honored Rep. John Lewis on Twitter with a message and image showing him and the respected civil rights leader together. But as many people on social media were quick to point out, the senator had actually posted an image of himself and Rep. Elijah. E. Cummings, who died last […]

On Sunday afternoon, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida posted a video on his Twitter account addressing the protests and riots that have ravaged major cities across the country for the last few days. In his video, Rubio argued that while there were some people in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other parts of the country who […]

Independent and former Republican Justin Amash took to Twitter Tuesday to criticize Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and his comments on the forthcoming Senate trial on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. According to Rubio, the evidence in the impeachment trial must match the evidence and testimony that the House relied on when passing […]

On Monday, Utah Senator Mitt Romney admitted that he had a secret profile on Twitter that he used to lurk around the social media site. Using the alias “Pierre Delecto,” Romney defended himself and took shots at some of his colleagues, including a few Republican allies. As Mediaite reported, the Utah Republican referenced his “burner” […]

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Thursday afternoon to once again lash out at former National Security Advisor John Bolton, just days after the president announced in a tweet that he had fired him. The tweet, which was sent Thursday just before 1:30 p.m., was a followup to a tweet from Florida Senator Marco […]

Marco Rubio’s Twitter Bible study didn’t quite go as he likely planned this week. The Florida senator and devout Christian frequently takes to Twitter to share Bible verses he finds relevant, but the passage from the book of Proverbs that Marco picked on Friday drew some very confused reactions from Twitter. The verse was a […]

Typically a supporter of President Donald Trump’s actions, Sen. Marco Rubio on Thursday broke ranks with the president and condemned Israel’s decision to deny entry to two Muslim American lawmakers. But his disagreement with the decision is not for the same reasons as Democrats who came to the defense of Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. […]

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio praised Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ work ethic, and said that the senator is “engaged and active” in her work on the Senate Intelligence Committee. His comments were published in an article by BuzzFeed News on Thursday, which took a closer look into Harris’ role on the Senate’s secretive committee, […]

Marco Rubio has come under fire for posting a doctored video clip of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar made to look as if she was making an attack against white people, leading a reporter to shame the Florida Senator when he refused to delete it. Rubio had shared a clip from a 2018 interview that the Minnesota […]

Russian hackers successfully compromised a Florida county’s election system in 2016, according to a New York Times report. Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, confirmed to NYT information that was included in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Specifically, the report detailed a case in […]

Senator Marco Rubio, the one-time Republican primary contender whose then-opponent Donald Trump derisively dubbed “Little Marco,” might be in a position to even the score, Florida Politics reports. Rubio shared his thoughts on possible paths forward in an interview following the announcement that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had completed his investigation into Russian meddling in […]

Florida Senator Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment that would limit the Supreme Court to its current number of nine justices. According to an op-ed that he wrote for Fox News, Rubio wants to prevent Democrats from adding new seats in order to alter the balance of the […]

As the socioeconomic and political crisis in Venezuela continues to rage on, many U.S. politicians have weighed in on the matter, with some continuing to criticize President Nicolás Maduro for his mismanagement of the country as a whole. Aside from massive shortages in food and basic medical supplies, Venezuelan citizens have had to contend with […]

Senator Marco Rubio has been a staunch critic of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but his willingness to criticize the regime has meant that sometimes he doesn’t cross-check his facts. On Saturday, the Florida senator was left in an embarrassing position after he blamed a power outage in Venezuela on the journalist who broke the news. […]

If Florida Senator Marco Rubio has his way, Americans will have more sunlight in the evening hours year-round. Rubio has introduced a bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, with an entire year of clocks moved forward one hour. As the Orlando Sentinel reported, the bill was introduced to the U.S. Senate this week, […]

As the election season preceding the 2020 presidential contest heats up, the rhetorical knives are being sharpened on both sides of the aisle in preparation for what promises to be a contentious race. And hot on the heels of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) announcing that he is officially throwing his hat in the ring – […]

The U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Thursday to avert a second government shutdown, according to Time. The bill provides partial funding for barriers along the U.S-Mexico border, but doesn’t provide anywhere near the $5.7 billion that Donald Trump demanded and ultimately shut the government down over. The Senate voted overwhelmingly, 83-16, to pass […]

The South American country of Venezuela has been plunged into an economic and political crisis of late. While President Nicolás Maduro is technically still in office, the past week has seen more than 20 countries around the world acknowledge the opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president, including the United States. Now the American government […]

Legislators from both parties have tabled bills to try and outlaw future government shutdowns as the U.S. federal government starts up again after the longest shutdown in the country’s history. Both Democratic Senator Mark Warner and Republican Senator Rob Portman have introduced bills aimed at banning future shutdowns, according to the Daily Mail. While it […]

On Wednesday night, Major League Baseball and its players’ association announced a deal with the baseball governing body of Cuba to change the way that baseball players leave that country to come to the majors. According to ESPN, under the terms of the agreement, Cuban players will be allowed to sign contracts with American teams, […]

It would be a “huge mistake” for Donald Trump to pardon former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Republican Senator Marco Rubio says. Though Rubio has frequently supported his onetime Republican primary opponent, he split sharply with the president after Trump had floated the idea of issuing a pardon for Manafort. Trump’s former campaign manager was convicted […]

George Herbert Walker Bush has died at the age of 94. The Republican was the 41st president of the United States. His death on Friday, November 30, comes just seven months after his wife, Barbara Bush, died. “Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro, and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad […]

Marco Rubio’s campaign sent an email to voters calling Democrats extreme even as authorities work to intercept bombs targeting well-known liberal politicians. The tone-deaf letter from the senator’s campaign titled “It will only get worse” denounced “Democrats’ extremism,” according to Newsweek. The Florida lawmaker’s email decried political partisanship and the destruction of the “political norms […]

Alex Jones, the controversial internet media personality, got into a spat with Senator Marco Rubio outside of a Senate Intelligence Committee meeting, NBC News reports. According to NBC, the meeting was attended by executives from Twitter and Facebook as it focused on foreign interference on U.S.-owned social media platforms. The gathering seems to have been […]

Tennessee Senator Bob Corker is voicing his “concerns” on the current relationship between the Trump administration and Russia in light of the shocking Helsinki press conference. Corker also serves as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “I understand why members would want to respond to what happened in Helsinki, and I think there’s […]

Senator Marco Rubio appeared on Face The Nation Sunday and gave his thoughts on President Trump’s new stance on the U.S. intelligence community’s findings. The president and Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, met one-on-one for a summit in Helsinki Monday. Trump initially denied the FBI’s findings on the DNC hacks committed by 12 Russian agents during […]

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell canceled the vote on President Trump’s nominee for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upon realizing that there would not be a sufficient number of votes to support his nomination. The Hill reports that a vote was expected at 1:45 p.m. Thursday. McConnell appeared on the Senate floor about […]

Marco Rubio took a brief break from politics on Friday to weigh in on the hip hop beef between Kanye West, Pusha T, and Drake. Rubio shared a video on Twitter Friday with the headline “Kanye West’s new album?” In it, the Republican senator who once campaigned to become the U.S. president in 2016 admitted […]

Republican Senator Marco Rubio is emerging as one of the loudest critics of President Donald Trump’s policies. On Friday, despite opposition from lawmakers, Trump announced a deal to save Chinese phone manufacturer ZTE. He said that he will allow the company to “reopen with high-level security guarantees, change of management and board.” As per the […]

On Sunday, the U.S. officials entered North Korea to prepare for the upcoming summit with Kim Jong-Un and President Donald Trump. South Korean president Moon Jae-In, who acted as the mediator between both parties, announced in a press conference that Kim Jong-Un is keen on meeting President Trump and that he is willing to discuss […]

After House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he will not run for re-election this year, the playing field is now wide open. When the topic was brought up to Senator Marco Rubio, he made a bold statement: anybody can become the speaker of the house, including Kanye West. Paul Ryan has confirmed that […]

Black students are far more likely to receive disciplinary action than their white counterparts, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report issued Wednesday. The issuance of the investigative report comes at a time when Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the Trump Administration are examining whether steps taken by the Obama Administration to […]

Parkland shooting survivor Sarah Chadwick almost broke Twitter early Friday morning when she wrote that the AR-15 should be renamed “Marco Rubio” because “they are so easy to buy.” At the time of writing, the tweet has already been liked more than a 100,000 times. Chadwick is one of the Parkland shooting student survivors who […]

Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, began their 2018 conference Wednesday with the promise of the usual rightwing conservative politicians speaking, such as Senator Ted Cruz, Sean Hannity, Brexit architect, Nigel Farage, and Chumlee‘s boss, Rick Harrison, from the hit History Channel show, Pawn Stars. Why is a reality star speaking at an […]

On Wednesday evening, the students, teachers, and parents from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School held a town hall to speak with politicians and make their feelings known. One week after 17 innocent lives were lost during the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, Republican Senator Marco Rubio fielded questions and spoke his mind. There were a […]

Cameron Kasky survived last week’s school shooting in Florida, and on Wednesday, the high schooler stepped on the national stage when he lit into Senator Marco Rubio for his stances on gun control. Rubio appeared at a town hall meeting broadcast on CNN, taking questions from a largely hostile audience and at times drawing loud […]

David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez are survivors. They attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida where Nikolas Cruz’s shooting rampage left 17 people dead. The two students appeared on CNN, asking for tougher gun laws to protect schools. Benjamin Kelly, an aide to Florida House Representative Shawn Harrison, acting on his own accord […]

American diplomats in Cuba are falling ill after a series of mysterious, vaguely identified, “health attacks.” Neither the U.S. nor the Cuban government has identified the cause of these attacks, which have left U.S. citizens in the diplomatic community with symptoms ranging from permanent hearing loss to brain trauma. A possible explanation for these attacks […]

Florida Senator Marco Rubio took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to announce that evacuations of South Florida had to be completed by Friday night, which, at the time of tweeting, was “60 hours from now.” Hurricane Irma has officially been classified as the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history. Meteorologists are still largely […]

Republicans across the country seem to be making moves that suggest the end of the Donald Trump era is near. The past week has been the worst one for the 45th U.S. president, and many political experts believe that Mr. Trump is temperamentally incapable of making the changes necessary to save his administration from a […]

In an unprecedented move, a long list of Republican lawmakers have come out to condemn President Donald Trump’s response to the deadly protest in Charlottesville last weekend. The coterie includes House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senators Marco Rubio, Todd Young, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Orrin Hatch, as well as Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Will Hurd, Darrell Issa, […]

Social media reacted with hilarity and derision to a photo showing an awkward encounter between Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla) and Ivanka Trump on Tuesday morning at the Capitol. The photo shows Rubio attempting, awkwardly, to give a much taller Ivanka a hug after she arrived at the Capitol for a meeting with Rubio and other […]

The idea of shooting a president, whether you like him or not, has historically been condemned. However, Snoop Dogg’s video collaboration with Lavender for “BADBADNOTGOOD” has actually earned praise from some left-leaning outlets. The Huffington Post praises the music video for offering a topical commentary on Donald Trump and police brutality. “The video takes place […]

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida told NPR on Thursday morning that while he is suspicious of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ ties to Russia, he advises caution in moving forward. He told NPR’s Steve Inskeep, “I’m not interested in being part of a witch hunt, but I also will not be part of a cover-up.” The […]

Marco Rubio was seen as the most moderate candidate that was seeking the republican nomination for president last year and he had fierce battles with Donald Trump on the debate stage. But since Marco Rubio dropped out of the GOP race last year, there has seemed to be a silent animosity between Rubio and Trump, […]

Donald Trump has noted that Rex Tillerson, a chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, is in the running for the coveted Secretary of State position. However, it seems that if President-Elect Donald Trump opts to offer the Exxon CEO the top position in his cabinet, he may run into trouble getting him confirmed despite having a […]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a statement on the passing of former Cuban Revolution leader and President Fidel Castro via his official website Saturday. “It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President,” the statement begins. “Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served […]