President Trump took a victory lap Saturday after Israel and Hamas signaled support for his 20-point peace plan, but he pressed the Palestinian militant group to "move quickly." Hamas partially agreed to the agreement crafted by Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday. "I appreciate that Israel has temporarily stopped the bombing in...
The stalemate over how to reopen the government is being inflamed by something no policy provision can fix: A deep-seeded distrust between the leaders of the parties. The trust gap has a lengthy history and a profusion of roots. But it's resurfacing now over the thorny issue driving the budget impasse: Affordable Care Act subsidies...
Like it or not — like him or not — Donald Trump truly is a “once in a century” personality. But folded within that reality is a potentially huge problem for the Republicans come 2028.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin says Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones should "step away" from his campaign "in disgrace" over text messages.
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TRUMP’S REMARKABLE POLLING STABILITY. A new poll from the New York Times finds that President Donald Trump has a job approval rating of 43% and a disapproval rating of 54%. That was virtually identical to Trump’s 42% approval and 54% disapproval in the last Times poll, taken in late April. A lot has happened in the last […]
Israeli airstrikes killed six people in Gaza on Friday, hours after Hamas partially agreed to a peace plan and after President Trump called on Israel to stop bombing the territory. One of the airstrikes killed four people in a house in Gaza City, NBC News reported. The other airstrikes killed two people in Khan Younis,...
Democratic candidate for Virginia’s attorney general, Jay Jones, is facing a firestorm after a series of 2022 text messages calling for the then-statehouse speaker to get "two bullets to the head" were leaked this week. “Three people, two bullets,” Jones said in a text to House Delegate Carrie Coyner (R) about former House Speaker Todd...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the Portland Police Department in Oregon, days after a conservative influencer was arrested amid a federal crime crackdown in the city. Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ's assistant attorney general for civil rights, "signed, sealed [and] delivered!" a letter to Portland police about the investigation on Friday, according to a...
Zohran Mamdani appears to have a plan for leveling the playing fields in education. Faced with a huge number of students with comparably dismal scores in math, English, and science, Mamdani is going to bulldoze higher-achieving programs. It is a pledge that only Soviet central planner would relish. By eliminating gifted and talented program in...
