Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced that the United States and India had reached a landmark trade agreement. While the precise language of the deal has not yet been released, the broad contours are unmistakably positive for both countries. Under the agreement, tariffs on Indian exports to the United States will be reduced dramatically, falling to roughly 18% from […]
“If you do with an award tonight, don’t use it as a political platform to make a political speech,” Ricky Gervais advised the audience at the Golden Globes award ceremony in 2020. “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time […]
The annual Census Bureau numbers released last week are just a snapshot of one moment, but they show blue states failing to reproduce themselves and their residents fleeing to red states, of which the strongest are growing not just because of blue-state refugees but also because they are successfully encouraging families to grow. The numbers […]
With the partial government shutdown resolved, both the House and Senate turn to negotiations on the Department of Homeland Security, and specifically debate over potential limits on immigration officers, before its funding runs out again on Feb. 13. Border czar Tom Homan will address the Trump administration's immigration efforts in Minneapolis at a Wednesday morning...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says he does not support President Trump’s proposal for Republicans to “take over” voting procedures in more than a dozen states and “nationalize” the midterm elections, declaring Trump’s call to action as blatantly unconstitutional. “That’s not what the Constitution says about elections,” Paul said in an interview Tuesday with MS NOW’s...
A federal judge in Oregon temporarily limited federal agents’ use of nonlethal munitions against protesters outside of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Ore. ICE officers deployed tear gas, shot pepper balls and rubber bullets and set off flash bang-grenades at an anti-immigration enforcement protest in the city earlier this week, The...
Ten years after the North Korea Sanctions Policy Enhancement Act was passed, Congress needs to reassert its authority on North Korea policy and demand full enforcement of the law, while also pursuing creative diplomacy to make progress towards disarming the Kim regime.
President Trump’s lawyers are back in Manhattan this morning, vying to finally convince a 92-year-old federal judge that he should take the reins on Trump’s criminal conviction and toss it. Fresh off hearing deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s not guilty plea, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein will decide if Trump’s case belongs before him or in New York state court, where a jury issued Trump’s sole conviction. Hellerstein has shown reluctance. But Trump has new ammo. He can thank the U.S. Court...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) launched a new initiative on Wednesday that aims to turn out likely Democratic voters in toss-up states and congressional districts who voted in 2020 but sat out the last presidential election. The initiative, called Local Listeners, trains volunteers to engage infrequent voters, aiming to reach more than a million of them ahead of the midterms. A quarter of that engagement will...
