President Trump departed Washington just after sunrise Friday, heading west for his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in years and one that will set the tone for the future of peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war. The meeting at an Air Force base just outside Anchorage, Alaska, came together in just over a...
Here’s a fact: No one — not Fed Chairman Jay Powell nor all the talking heads on Bloomberg and elsewhere who have blasted President Trump’s tariff regimen — has any idea how his upending of global trade terms will turn out.
On the menu: Classical on the rocks; Newsom unveils Texas revenge package; Brown in; Where do you put 653 House members?; A dumpling for a bear There are many kinds of bias in the news business, but few as durable and reliable as New Yorkism: the outsized place that news happening in America’s media capital...
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday tapped the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) chief to serve as Washington's “emergency police commissioner," a move to wrest power from the district's current police chief amid the Trump administration's law enforcement takeover. DEA Administrator Terry Cole will now assume “all of the powers and duties” of D.C. Police Chief...
Rural landowners are telling the owners of proposed solar and wind projects to take their PV panels and turbines and put them somewhere the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.
In today’s issue: ▪ Trump: Agenda with Putin ‘like chess’ ▪ AG Bondi federalizes DC police control ▪ States’ redistricting arms race escalates ▪ Trump shores up Social Security support President Trump today faces the most critical test yet of his ability to deliver on his promise to make peace in Ukraine. The president will...
President Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday could shape the future of Moscow’s more than three-year war in Ukraine — for better or worse. Trump has made ending the war a priority focus in his second term, but Putin has been a brick wall, refusing any concessions toward peace and only increasing...
President Trump on Thursday evening nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Taibleson to serve as a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, making her the sixth federal appeals court nominee of his second term. "It is my Great Honor to nominate Rebecca Taibleson to serve as a Judge on the United States Court of...
President Trump said on Thursday that he would like to see foreign journalists granted access to the Gaza Strip by Israel. "I'd like to see that happen, sure," the president told reporters at the White House. "I would be very fine with journalists going. And it's a very dangerous position to be in, as you...
A Minnesota man accused of killing State House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, Vance Boelter, was indicted on Thursday by a grand jury on eight charges, including two counts of first-degree murder. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced that Boelter, who was also accused of injuring another Democratic Party state lawmaker and his...
