Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Lindsey Graham are pushing a bill that would incentivize states to cross-check voter rolls quarterly against a Department of Homeland Security non-citizen database, citing election fraud concerns and President Trump's election-integrity agenda.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday declined to condemn New Jersey Democratic congressional nominee Adam Hamawy, despite being shown trial transcripts showing Mr. Hamawy testified as a defense witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "Blind Sheikh" who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
President Trump lashed out Sunday at NBC's 'Meet the Press," calling the news talk show "crooked" and ending an interview early over questions about recent elections in California.
President Trump expressed support Sunday for the now-defunct $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who say they were targeted by the Biden administration's "weaponization" of government but stopped short of committing to revive it.
A lawsuit filed Saturday is seeking to block the Trump administration’s UFC fight scheduled to take place at the White House next week on President Trump’s birthday, June 14. Plaintiffs' attorneys argue the event is “deeply corrupt” and have accused Trump of benefitting from the event financially, citing reporting that says the president purchased up...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Sunday said the latest accusations about Maine oyster farmer and Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) were not "a surprise" to Pine Tree State voters. Khanna appeared on CBS News's "Face the Nation," where host Margaret Brennan pressed him about Platner, whom he supports. She asked about reporting from The New...
President Trump has appointed Bill Pulte, an unqualified individual with no experience in intelligence or national security, as Acting Director of National Intelligence, prioritizing his own self-interest over America's national security.
Days after Earth was impacted by several coronal mass ejections, forecasters say a recent solar flare could be directed at us, potentially sparking another chance at the northern lights.
A judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday dismissed a lawsuit that the Kennedy Center filed against a jazz musician for canceling a performance after the center’s board added President Trump’s name to the building. Associate Judge Tanya Jones Bosier wrote that the Kennedy Center failed to prove that Chuck Redd had signed a contract to...
On Sunday, former "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley told The New York Times that his former employer, CBS News, "is on fire" under its current leadership. The Times interviewed Pelley after he was fired for blasting the new "60 Minutes" executive producer, Nick Bilton. He stressed his hope that the leadership at Paramount — CBS...
President Trump abruptly ended his interview with NBC News’s Kristen Welker on Friday, after the two discussed his unfounded claim that the California gubernatorial primary was “rigged.” During a lengthy interview in Wisconsin that aired Sunday on "Meet the Press," Trump repeated his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and said “it’s...
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Sunday criticized his party for being "way too bureaucratic" as Democrats battle unpopularity in the polls. “I think the Democrats have not — you know, need to articulate a fuller strategy, not just against [President] Trump. I want the Democratic Party to be pro-growth, pro-innovation, and actually about getting stuff...
President Trump on Friday defended his administration’s short-lived nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, days after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the Justice Department was not moving ahead with it. “So, me, personally, I think the weaponization fund is a great idea, and so do many other Republicans,” Trump told host Kristen Welker during...
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Sunday said Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte is “not qualified” to permanently serve as Director of National Intelligence pointing to his lack of experience in the realm of national security. “He's not qualified for the long-term position, that's been clear on this. He has no national security...
President Trump said Friday that the U.S. will unfreeze Iranian assets only after the two sides reach a peace deal. “No,” the president said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday, when anchor Kristen Welker asked if he would unfreeze any Iranian assets or lift any sanctions as part of an...
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claims "moving the Forest Service closer to the forests we manage is an essential action that will improve our core mission of managing our forests." That is sophistry — a failed attempt to justify an ill-advised, destructive reorganization plan to remove Forest Service headquarters from Washington and radically cut its research infrastructure. Her fallacy implies that adjacent communities...
