Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign is drawing attention after criticizing Rep. Haley Stevens for voting in favor of a House resolution honoring Charlie Kirk following his assassination, injecting another flashpoint into an increasingly rancorous Democratic primary. The social media attack centered on Stevens’ support for a bipartisan congressional resolution condemning Kirk’s killing and […]
The Federal Reserve is facing criticism after appointing Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to a newly created advisory task force just days after Microsoft announced thousands of layoffs while continuing to hire foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. Sharma, who leads Microsoft’s Xbox division, was named Thursday to the Federal Reserve’s new “Productivity and Jobs” […]
President Donald Trump is making a political statement without stopping one of Congress’ biggest bipartisan victories. Rather than signing the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, Trump is allowing the sweeping housing package to become law automatically, using the moment to protest the Senate’s refusal to advance his preferred voter ID legislation. “I will not sign the […]
President Donald Trump said he has left instructions for the United States to launch an unprecedented bombing campaign against Iran if Tehran succeeds in assassinating him. “I’ve been on their list for a long time. That’s what we’re dealing with,” the president told the New York Post Friday. “I’ve left instructions — if anything happens, to just literally bomb […]
Billionaire hedge fund founder Ken Griffin appears to have tipped his hand in the early jockeying for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, signaling he would be inclined to support Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Vice President JD Vance should the two face off in a future GOP primary. Griffin made the remarks during an […]
California’s ban on the retail sale of Glock handguns and other similar semiautomatic pistols will remain in effect after a federal judge denied the Trump administration’s request for a temporary restraining order while a broader Second Amendment challenge proceeds. The Justice Department sought a temporary restraining order against California Penal Code Section 27595, commonly known […]
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade is urging President Donald Trump to overhaul his negotiating team for any future talks with Iran, arguing that senior advisers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have failed to produce results across multiple foreign policy fronts. Kilmeade made the comments during “The Five” after Trump declared the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement “over” […]
A decades-old marriage is suddenly becoming campaign fodder in one of America’s most competitive House races. Democratic congressional candidate JoAnna Mendoza is facing new questions after court records revealed she never publicly discussed a brief 1998 marriage to a Syrian national — a relationship that lasted just over two weeks before the couple separated. The […]
CNN anchor Dana Bash offered President Donald Trump an unusual compliment Thursday while discussing the latest renovation work underway at the White House, praising several of the administration’s restoration projects even as she poked fun at a tarp covering ongoing construction. The comments came during Inside Politics with Dana Bash after new photos and video […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says federal authorities have deported Tou Lue Vang, a Laotian national whose criminal conviction was previously pardoned by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. After Rubio intervened, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took Vang into custody and removed him from the United States. The 42-year-old pleaded guilty in 2005 to repeatedly sexually […]
The Supreme Court did something rare. It admitted a mistake that had stood for 91 years, and it corrected it. In Trump v. Slaughter, a 6-3 majority overruled Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, the 1935 decision that allowed Congress to wall off the commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission from the president who is supposed to direct […]
The Texas Two-Step: How Trump Is Dealing With Senate Obstruction
On July 9, 2026, Aaron Reitz raised his right hand in Houston and took the oath as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. “Things are about to get very bad for criminals,” he promised, and given his record as a Marine, as Ken Paxton’s deputy in the Texas Attorney General’s office, and as […]