Oman’s strategy of calculated neutrality has run out of road. Long celebrated as a quiet diplomatic bridge between Washington and Tehran, Muscat has shattered its careful balancing act. A desperate attempt to revive a paralyzed shipping economy has transformed Oman into a central participant in a military conflict between the United States and Iran. The […]
I would love to think that Mark Zuckerberg saw the light. Meta, Zuckerberg’s massive tech company that owns Facebook and Instagram, agreed to a $17 billion settlement with 47 state attorneys general who had sued the company for deliberately addicting children to its products. In addition to the financial penalties, Meta agreed to implement features […]
Liberals have for many decades tried to replace the Constitution’s ideas of limited federal and presidential power, checks and balances, and federalism with majoritarian democracy, expanded and centralized government, and strong presidential leadership.
The Supreme Court early Saturday halted the administration’s ability to use the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport migrants to El Salvador who are being detained in portions of Texas, for now. The emergency order temporarily blocks the deportations until the high court resolves the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) emergency appeal, which was filed hours earlier over concerns...
Democrats trying to find their way back from their 2024 election losses are taking aim at former President Biden for reemerging on the national stage. Biden came back into view this week to deliver his first public postpresidency speech after largely being absent from the political discussion. But some Democrats said they’d prefer the former...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s (D-Md.) trip to El Salvador to visit a mistakenly deported constituent has thrust the mild-mannered lawmaker into a major battle with the Trump administration as it doubles down on its pledge to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia imprisoned abroad. Van Hollen embarked for the Central American nation on Wednesday after saying he...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is threatening to upend the New York governor’s race as she considers a challenge to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) next year. Stefanik has not confirmed that she's running yet, but the possibility of her jumping in is already unsettling the GOP primary in the Empire State, where Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.)...
Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) announced that she will travel to El Salvador to demand that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian national who was mistakenly deported from the U.S., be released from prison in the country. “A legal U.S. resident has had his due process rights ripped away and is now being held indefinitely in a...
President Trump argued that he was elected in November to “take bad people out of” the country, sharing a photo of what he says is proof of a mistakenly deported man's gang ties. The president posted a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's hand on Friday, showing various tattoos on his knuckles, including a marijuana leaf,...
A divided federal appeals court panel on Friday temporarily halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt proceedings against the Trump administration over its deportation flights to El Salvador last month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit indicated its order is intended to provide “sufficient opportunity” for the court to consider the government’s appeal...
Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was projected to win a special election to become the next mayor of Oakland, according to Decision Desk HQ, in what became a closer-than-expected race amid growing voter dissatisfaction over the direction of the city. Lee won the nonpartisan ranked-choice election over a field of more than a half dozen candidates, with...
President Trump weighed in on the cost of eggs around the country, claiming Friday at the White House that the prices are “getting too low." Trump praised Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for doing a “great” job and then asserted that egg prices are “down 87 percent, but nobody talks about that.” “You can have all...
A federal judge ordered that Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained late last month, be transferred from a detention center in Louisiana to Vermont no later than at the start of next month. District Judge William Sessions ruled Friday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has until May 1 to move Ozturk,...
Probationary workers who were refired this month from the Commerce Department say their health insurance is being terminated earlier than they expected. The workers had expected their health insurance to run into May. Instead, they received notices this week that the department is backdating their termination to an earlier date, meaning the health insurance ran...
