Democratic strategist James Carville slammed Vice President Vance's reaction to a leaked Young Republicans group chat with racist and xenophobic messages "JD f‑‑‑ing Vance, the vice president of the United States, thought it was funny, and thought people were just overreacting to it," Carville told co-host Al Hunt on the Wednesday episode of his podcast...
The U.S. military is warning Hamas to stop violence in the wake of a reported video showing eight people being killed in Gaza. "We strongly urge Hamas to immediately suspend violence and shooting at innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza - in both Hamas-held parts of Gaza and those secured by the IDF behind the Yellow...
LIVE Video: Jeffries and House Democrats hold press conference on shutdown day 15 Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) raised the stakes on Capitol Hill as he scheduled a Thursday vote to advance the mammoth defense appropriations bill on Day 15 of the government shutdown. Thune is seeking to put Democrats on the record if...
President Donald Trump has been accused of weaponizing the Justice Department to punish people who investigated, prosecuted, or angered him, including the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey on false charges.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has surprised Democrats by scheduling a vote Thursday on advancing the $852 billion defense appropriations bill amid the government shutdown. The defense measure in July passed out of the Appropriations Committee with strong Democratic support — 26 to 3 — but the political calculus has changed since then because...
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Jack Keane on Tuesday slammed the Pentagon policy that restricts journalists from reporting on unauthorized material and prevents them from entering certain areas without an escort. “They want to spoon-feed information to the journalists, and that will be their story. That’s not journalism. Journalism is going out and finding the story...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted The Wall Street Journal over its coverage of U.S.-China trade relations and accused the newspaper of shilling for China. "I think this narrative ... just a terrible Wall Street Journal article today, just complete ... they're taking CCP [Chinese Communist Party] dictation," Bessent said shaking his head at a CNBC...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Wednesday that the U.S. will “impose costs” on Russia if there is “no path to peace in the short term” in Moscow's war with Ukraine. “If there is no path to peace in the short term, then the United States, along with our allies, will take the steps necessary to...
New York health officials on Tuesday confirmed the state’s first locally acquired case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus in a person who fell ill in Nassau County on Long Island. The announcement marks the first locally acquired case reported in any U.S. state or territory since 2019, and the first reported in any U.S. state...
Former White House national security spokesperson John Kirby on Tuesday pushed back on an argument from the Pentagon about press access, calling it “a little overdrawn.” "It makes very little sense to me," said Kirby, a retired Navy rear admiral and former Pentagon press secretary, of the new press rules on CNN's “Anderson Cooper 360.”...
Vice President JD Vance said the violent text messages sent by Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones are “far worse” than the newly exposed Young Republicans’ chat in which members joked about gas chambers, slavery and raping their enemies. “This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy...
The images of people snatched off the street by masked armed men in plain clothes smack of the repressive tactics of authoritarian banana republic regimes.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said this week that he's ready for a public debate with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) amid the government shutdown, now in its third week. "I look forward to that," Jeffries told a small group of reporters on Tuesday in his office in the Capitol. "We're going to try to...
