Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.) and other lawmakers will hold a press conference Wednesday morning to press the Trump administration to indict former Cuban President Raúl Castro. The Trump administration is planning to announce criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter tells NewsNation. Acting Attorney General Todd...
South Carolina House Republicans advanced a new GOP-favored map aimed at dismantling Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn’s district and putting the GOP one step closer toward passing an aggressive redraw ahead of the midterms. The Palmetto State’s lower chamber passed new congressional lines in a 74-37 vote shortly after midnight Wednesday. Four Republicans defected, voting against the proposed map. The legislation now heads to the state Senate,...
President Trump got his wish on Tuesday, with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) sent packing by voters in his Kentucky primary. The win by Trump-backed Ed Gallrein was the last in a string of election efforts to dismiss rebels who don't bow to the president's agenda. Elsewhere on the latest primary election day, the president's influence...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) did not withhold his anger toward President Trump after his primary loss late Tuesday. “I got to watch Fox [News] for the first time in 18 months, and there was the president talking about — by the way, while gas is almost $5 and diesel’s almost $6 — they’re talking about...
President Trump’s public break with the Federalist Society, the sprawling conservative legal organization, created uncertainty over the types of nominations he’d make to the courts in his second term. Now 16 months in, Trump’s new nominees aren’t so different from the last crop of jurists he tapped for the bench. Key figures associated with the...
If Washington continues to read Iran as a stable revisionist power rather than an insecure regime increasingly focused on survival, it may misjudge the threat in ways that carry real consequences.
President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion settlement with his own Justice Department, creating a fund that can be distributed to the president’s allies, stinks to high heaven. But Democrats have little standing to complain. They wrote and for decades followed the “sue and settle” playbook with which they sluiced money nefariously to allies to shape policy […]