Speculation about a presidential run by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in 2028 is rising to its highest pitch yet — and some people are putting their money on it. AOC, as she is commonly known, now leads the field for the Democratic presidential nomination on the two best-known betting markets, Kalshi and Polymarket. Even if...
The last major midterm primary test for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is taking place Tuesday in Florida, after a loss in Wisconsin this past week dealt a blow to the far-left movement. DSA-backed Oliver Larkin is aiming to unseat Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) in the Democratic primary for the 25th Congressional District, which...
The Supreme Court’s emergency docket has flared up in the thick of the justices’ summer recess. President Trump is urging the justices to revive his mail ballot restrictions and allow White House ballroom construction to resume. It again puts the high court in the hot seat after its string of key rulings on other aspects of...
The DOJ's anti-fraud task force expansion into Pennsylvania netted 19 arrests as suspects allegedly billed Medicaid while in prison or driving rideshares.
Oldspeak Books opened in a converted chapel in the pretty Suffolk village of Long Melford in June 2025. Its founder, Joanne May, saw that her England and the wider West are beset from without and within, and she wanted to do something about it. Like George Orwell, who took his pseudonymous surname from a local […]
The federal government posted a $432.3 billion deficit in July, the biggest since March 2021, when then-President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus checks sent deficits, and then inflation, soaring. President Donald Trump does not have a global pandemic or a declared war to excuse this level of borrowing, and with our population aging, the deficit picture […]
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) commander Adm. Brad Cooper visited the USS Abraham Lincoln Saturday after the ship had been docked in the Middle East for over 260 days since November. Centcom released a statement Saturday about the visit, stating Cooper, who oversees the war with Iran, visited the ship as part of a 10-day trip...
The United States Navy is potentially redesigning incoming aircraft vessels to better align with President Trump’s preferred aesthetic. The maritime branch is considering the shift on Ford-class ships to match the president’s preference for the new aircraft carriers to resemble the World War II-era, according to a Saturday report from the Washington Post. The changes...
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) avoided questions Friday on whether he will receive President Trump’s help on the campaign trail in his bid to become Wisconsin’s governor. Appearing on Newsmax’s “Wake-Up America” host Sharla McBride asked the Republican nominee if he expected Trump to join him while campaigning like the president has done for other GOP...
A group of House Democrats sent a letter Friday to the Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao probing into conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln, a ship that has been docked in the Middle East for over 260 days. The letter – sent by Reps. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.), Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), Wesley Bell (D-Mo.),...
