LETITIA JAMES AND AN EYE FOR AN EYE. There’s no doubt Letitia James still wants to destroy Donald Trump. New York’s Democratic attorney general, who won office on a campaign pledge to pursue Trump, who filed a meritless lawsuit to destroy Trump’s business empire and with a sympathetic judge won a $454 million verdict, who cheered […]
Judges have stalled President Donald Trump's plans to deploy the National Guard in Chicago and in Portland, Oregon, but troops are now patrolling in Memphis, Tennessee, with the blessing of the state's governor.
The Rafah crossing will reopen to allow passage between Gaza and Egypt following Israel and Hamas's agreement to a peace deal and the first phase of a ceasefire. A European Union Border Assistance Missions (EUBAM) monitoring mission will resume its duties, according to a statement from Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on Friday. The crossing will reopen...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), a possible 2028 presidential candidate, said he is not inclined to engage in a partisan redistricting push in his state ahead of the 2026 midterms. In a Sunday interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Pritzker warned against more states redrawing their maps in the middle of the decade, but...
As Democratic governors have become vocal critics of President Trump, one governor's response has been more muted. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is frequently mentioned as a possible contender for the 2028 presidential contest, has kept her focus on Michigan, a pivotal swing state Trump won in 2024. Whitmer has been quiet as other potential Democratic...
Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Sunday pushed back on what she called a “misconception” of federal funding losses if her department is wound down at the federal level the way the Trump administration wants. “I think the misconception is that federal funding will go away if the Department of Education goes back more to the...
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car crash on Saturday evening in New Hampshire, according to a statement from his security team. Giuliani’s vehicle was “struck from behind at high speed,” Michael Ragusa, head of Giuliani's security, said in an official news release. Giuliani, who previously served as President Trump's...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., is “performative,” despite a recent drop in the violent crime rate. In an interview that aired Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week,” Moore acknowledged there’s more work to do in Baltimore to bring down the crime rate. He said...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday teased the potential for further federal law enforcement intervention in Chicago and other Democratic-run cities nationwide following President Trump's recent crime crackdown in Washington, D.C. Noem added that her department plans to "add more resources" to its operations in Chicago when asked about forthcoming plans for the Windy...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said in a Sunday interview that Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook should release her mortgage documents to dispel claims of fraud coming from the Trump administration, which is seeking her ouster. Pressed in an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Khanna said Cook should release the documents to prove...
President Trump's claim that 600,000 Chinese students would be admitted to the U.S. in exchange for trade deals is unrealistic, but policymakers should still weigh the risks and benefits of Chinese student enrollment for U.S. national security.
Despite the kindness of strangers, a couple in Houston faced a difficult and confusing process when trying to receive FEMA disaster assistance after their home flooded, highlighting the need for reform in the agency's bureaucracy.
The Mississippi Department of Health recently declared a public health emergency in response to rising infant deaths in an unusual move to help speed up efforts to cover gaps in care. Lowering the state’s infant mortality rate won’t be easy, health experts warn, and will potentially be made trickier by the ongoing overhaul of the...
A federal judge has temporarily halted the planned U.S. deportation of Guatemalan children amid President Trump’s intense crackdown on immigration. In a court filing Sunday, lawyers for the children said they were “ten (10) unaccompanied minors from Guatemala between the ages of 10 and 17 whom Defendants are seeking to remove from the United States...
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said the Minneapolis shooting suspect "never should have had access or been able to possess a firearm" given the shooter's apparent mental health issues. During an interview on ABC's "This Week," co-anchor Martha Raddatz asked Emmer about plans to prevent someone with mental health issues from enacting violence, to...
