DHS reports over 2.5 million illegal immigrants left the U.S. since Trump returned to office, with border crossings down 93% and major drug seizures up.
Affordability, affordability, affordability — that is the word on everyone’s minds. Democrats performed well in last week’s elections by focusing on this very theme, which encompasses housing availability and inflation and education costs and child care and health care and so many other things. When they discuss “affordability” in vague terms, Democrats are even...
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have struck a deal in Busan to prioritize a frozen conflict in Ukraine, with the U.S. reducing military pressure in the Pacific and China leaning on Russia to accept a ceasefire, in exchange for a durable ceasefire along the current front line.
House Republicans and Democrats alike slammed a provision in the shutdown-ending funding measure that would give senators the opportunity to earn significant amounts of money from litigation challenging the seizure of their phone records as part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack probe. The provision, which is retroactive to 2022, allows...
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) said he will call President Trump, who has gone after him intensely as his political star has risen, in the coming weeks. “Do you plan to call President Trump?” WNBC’s Melissa Russo asked Mamdani in an interview that aired Tuesday. “I will be reaching out to the White...
The White House defended President Trump’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein, accusing Democrats of “selectively” releasing emails from the deceased sex offender that reference the president. The comment comes after House Oversight Democrats released three email exchanges from Epstein as he corresponded with his associate Ghislaine Maxwell as well as columnist and author Michael Wolff. In the emails...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) dug in on her criticism of President Trump in a social media post on Wednesday, appearing to take aim at the president’s recent comments on H-1B visas and foreign policy. “I believe you are good, talented, creative, intelligent, hard working, and want to achieve,” Greene said in a post on...
MSNBC host Jen Psaki on Tuesday questioned "what happened" to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after a handful of Senators who caucus with Democrats bucked the party and voted to reopen the government. Seven Democrats and Independent Sen. Angus King (Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, voted with Republicans in the upper chamber Monday to...
Two men were among the thousands of U.S. soldiers killed during the Korean War, yet their names were left off the war memorial. Their families are fighting to change that.
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President Kennedy, is running to succeed retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) in the Empire State’s 12th congressional district. In a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Schlossberg said the country “is at a turning point” and in the midst of a cost of living, corruption and constitutional crisis under...
The House on Wednesday is returning to Washington after nearly two months out of session for a vote that could reopen the federal government and end the record-long shutdown. Most Democrats are firmly against the funding package, while Republicans are largely supportive. The bill appears poised to cross the finish line. Here are the key...
