Hantavirus scare Stop with the fearmongering about hantavirus (“Ship of Fools,” Betsy McCaughey, PostOpinion, May 14). The chances of getting sick from this virus are less than getting struck...
Georgia Republicans head to the polls on Tuesday to pick a candidate to challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in November, but they aren't getting direction from President Trump on who to choose.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be on Capitol Hill for budget hearings in both chambers on Tuesday morning. The testimony comes as President Trump’s snap decision to pull 5,000 U.S. troops out of Germany isn’t moving the needle in pushing European nations to enter the U.S. war in Iran or help Washington reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and...
President Trump has been treating Washington as his personal property, making radical changes to the city and renaming historic buildings after himself, while also proposing expensive and unnecessary projects, all in an attempt to rebrand the nation's capital in his honor.
Some of the biggest primary battles of the year have reaffirmed President Trump’s grip on Republicans, despite the party facing tough midterm odds — but more tests are coming. Trump’s endorsement of Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) for Senate last week, and an apparent offer to businessman Nate Morris to be an ambassador, led to Morris’s prompt withdrawal from the race —...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine will testify before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday morning on the President Trump's fiscal 2027 $1.5 trillion budget request for the Pentagon. The hearing comes as the fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire is under pressure, with both sides rejecting proposals to end the war....
President Trump on Monday urged the House to pass a sweeping housing affordability bill that has stalled in the lower chamber amid divisions over certain provisions, including a ban on large institutional investors buying single-family homes. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, aimed at lowering housing costs, overwhelmingly passed the Senate in an 89-10...
The Democratic Party's growing anti-Israel bias may make it difficult for a Jewish candidate to win the 2028 presidential nomination, despite the fact that the Jewish vote leans strongly Democratic.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to undergo training to recognize tribal IDs following reports of Native Americans being wrongly detained by immigration enforcement. New legislation from Reps. Sharice Davids (D-Kansas), Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.) and Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) would require...
President Trump on Monday encouraged South Carolina Republicans to be “bold” and "courageous" ahead of a vote on redistricting after Tennessee Republicans approved a new map that threatens to unseat the state’s lone House Democrat. “South Carolina Republicans: BE BOLD AND COURAGEOUS, just like the Republicans of the Great State of Tennessee were last week!...
President Trump on Monday floated Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a “dream team" ahead of the 2028 presidential election, polling attendees of a White House event on who they liked better and stopping short of offering an endorsement. “Who likes J.D. Vance? Who likes Marco Rubio? All right. Sounds like...
Former FBI Director James Comey said Monday that he won't stop criticizing President Trump ahead of a criminal trial against him over charges of threatening the president. “I’m not going to be quiet. I’m going to continue to speak about what I believe,” Comey told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace. " ... Donald Trump has a...
The Senate voted on Monday to advance the nomination of Kevin Warsh to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, putting him on track to be confirmed later this week to replace Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve. The Senate voted 49-44 to advance the nomination, a development that was expected after the Senate Banking...
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.), whose committee will mark up a portion of the Senate budget reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement operations, says there’s a good chance that the $1 billion in funding for the White House ballroom will be removed from the bill before it reaches the Senate floor. Paul,...
Iran’s top negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, on Monday said the U.S. must accept its newest 14-point proposal or else American taxpayers “will pay for it.” “There is no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal. Any other approach will be completely inconclusive; nothing but one...
