“I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity." Those words of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came in a recent interview, wherein the justice explained how she felt liberated after becoming a member of the Supreme Court "to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues. And that’s what I try to...
President Trump on Friday said he wouldn’t object to the release of all files tied to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as requested by the House Oversight Committee. “I’m in support of them keeping it open. Innocent people shouldn’t be hurt, but I’m in support of keeping it totally open," Trump told reporters...
Lee Zeldin’s dismissal of climate change as “religion” is a smear tactic as old as the environmental movement itself. It’s also an insult to religion and religious values.
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe questioned the veracity of statements made by Ghislaine Maxwell during an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche after transcripts were released on Friday. “It‘s so suspicious. When you listen to the tapes, you get the sense that Ghislaine Maxwell went into that room knowing what information she had...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Friday pushed back on President Trump's threat to target Chicago next in the Trump administration’s crackdown on crime following a sweeping takeover in the nation’s capital. "As Donald Trump attempts to create chaos that distracts from his problems, we’ll call it out for what it is," Pritzker wrote in...
America rightly celebrates and invests in medical breakthroughs like cancer therapies and artificial intelligence diagnostics. Yet research and development in reproductive and maternal health still struggles to gain the same vital support. This funding gap directly contributes to the country's maternal mortality rate, which remains the highest among wealthy nations, and the consequences are especially severe in...
I recently attended a small Hill event on a beautiful day to remember a dark anniversary: Eleven years after the Islamic State began its genocide against Yezidis in Iraq, Yezidi speakers shared about their challenges and needs. Convened in a small room deep in the Capitol Visitors Center, Yezidis shared stories of courage and pain....
The search of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton’s home and office is raising questions about whether the White House is flexing its law enforcement muscle to go after a frequent critic. It also parallels an event that the president and his circle have highly criticized: the search for classified records at Mar-a-Lago...
President Trump is keeping his foreign policy focus on Russia and Ukraine as global outrage grows over Israel's plans to launch a major new offensive in the Gaza Strip and a declaration of famine on Friday that underscored the catastrophic suffering of Palestinians. Trump has backed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to launch a...
