DEMOCRATIC VOTERS REJECT RESISTANCE STARS. There has been a lot of commentary on the differences between Resistance 1.0, the effort by anti-Trump activists to bring down President Donald Trump in his first term, and Resistance 2.0, the effort by anti-Trump activists to bring down Trump in his second term. There are some tactical contrasts, but the […]
President Trump used his primetime address on Thursday night to revive his claims of foreign interference in U.S. elections, making headlines as lawmakers weigh the fallout from his push to overhaul the nation’s voting system. During the address, Trump claimed that China allegedly obtained hundreds of millions of U.S. voter records while seeking to interfere...
More than 100 million Americans are under air quality alerts as smoke from wildfires in Canada and northern Minnesota blankets parts of the U.S. and releases microscopic particles into the atmosphere that can raise serious health risks. Shifting winds have pushed thick haze into major metro areas across the Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, reducing...
President Trump’s efforts to win congressional approval of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act at all costs are frustrating Republicans who see him as picking the wrong fights with his party ahead of a crucial midterm election. The frustrations were magnified by the primetime address Trump gave Thursday night that revisited his frustrations...
CNN host Michael Smerconish said major television networks acted with “condescension” by not airing President Trump’s primetime speech on election fraud on their channels, saying viewers should be trusted to evaluate the president’s remarks for themselves. Several of the nation’s biggest networks, including CNN, NBC and ABC, refused to broadcast Trump’s Thursday night address live,...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) says he is reviewing whether his administration could arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his anticipated visit to the city for the U.N. General Assembly this fall. The mayor made these comments an interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro on Saturday episode of The New York Times’ “The Interview"...
As Ukraine continues its strategic strikes against Russian infrastructure, author Andrew Chakhoyan draws parallels between the current conflict and the American Revolutionary War to argue that Western allies must provide the necessary support to ensure Kyiv's sovereignty.
Confidence in the Supreme Court’s decision-making is falling among Americans, according to a new Washington Post-Ipsos poll, with nearly of half of adults believing that the justices are guided by political ideology rather than the rule of law. The poll, conducted earlier this month, found that 46 percent of Americans think that the Supreme Court...
Democratic strategist James Carville on Friday criticized President Trump following his primetime speech this week, in which the president claimed that the U.S. election system needed urgent attention for vulnerabilities. Carville joined Republicans in opposing the decision of several major broadcasters not to take the president’s remarks live on air. NBC News, ABC News and...
A senior Iranian adviser threatened on Friday to launch a wider war in the Middle East following days of intense fighting, warning that “full-scale offensive operations” could resume if U.S. military strikes do not cease. “Iran will no longer limit itself to retaliatory, like-for-like responses…and no political border will be safe,” Major-General Mohsen Rezaei, an...
