In the wake of former President Donald Trump's dinner with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West and Holocaust denier and antisemite Nick Fuentes, some Republican lawmakers have resorted to "whataboutism," the practice of responding to an allegation by bringing up another one.
Rep. Henry Cuellar, an anti-abortion Democrat in Texas, declared victory over progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros in the May 24 Democratic primary runoff.
President Biden on Friday put the blame squarely on Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine for surging inflation and rising gas prices, a pair of domestic crises that vexed his administration before the invasion.