Senate Republicans have the ambitious goal of jamming through funding boosts for defense and border security — separately from the appropriations process — ahead of a mid-March deadline to prevent a government shutdown. Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said this week that he told President Trump “it would be really helpful if we...
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) slammed the Department of Justice (DOJ) for dismissing the criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, saying it’s “outright extortion.” Goldman joined MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” on Sunday, where he weighed in on the mayor’s legal developments. “It is an outright extortion,” he said. “This is way, way, way...
Vice President Vance slammed CBS News’ Margaret Brennan for a “crazy exchange” linking the Holocaust to free speech. In a post on X, Vance responded to a post that included a clip from Brennan’s Sunday morning interview on “Face the Nation” with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Brennan questioned the secretary on Vance’s recent remarks...
Actor and comedian Jerry Seinfeld responded to an activist who ambushed him about Palestine, saying he doesn’t care about the territory. In a clip posted to Subway DJ’s Instagram page, he walked up to Seinfeld, where he asked if he could get a selfie with the comedian. “Sure!” Seinfeld said. The social media influencer held...
President Trump named Jim Byron, the president and CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, to a senior archivist role at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). In a post Sunday on Truth Social, Trump said he was pleased to announce Byron would be serving as “Senior Advisor to our Acting Archivist, United States Secretary...
Fans at the United States and Canada hockey game in Montreal booed during the U.S. national anthem, and three fights exploded in the first nine seconds of the game. It’s the first time a fight has broken out at an international hockey tournament since 2004, but it also comes at a time of strained relations...
The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause. The group said it signed a $115,000 agreement with The Post to run the ad that would have covered the front and...
President Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants to stop fighting” and shot down a suggestion that Putin’s ambitions could extend beyond Ukraine’s borders. “I think he wants to stop fighting. I see that. We spoke long and hard. [Middle East envoy] Steve Witkoff was with him for a very extended period, like about three...
Fox News analyst Andy McCarthy slammed President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ), saying Attorney General Pam Bondi is going to weaponize the department. In an op-ed published Sunday in National Journal, McCarthy denounced Bondi’s “Weaponization Working Group” and said the group uses the weaponization it’s intended to weed out. “News flash: Pam Bondi now represents...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio sparred with CBS host Margaret Brennan over Vice President Vance’s speech in Munich. Rubio joined Brennan on “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where he was asked what Vance accomplished by meeting with a leader of the far-right political group Alternative for Germany (AfD) and saying the biggest threat to Europe...
American Sagui Dekel Chen is “home and safe” with his family, one day after he was released by Hamas, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Sunday. Chen was among the three men released in Khan Younis on Saturday in the latest victory for the fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Hamas also released Israeli Argentinian Iair...
Senate Democrats are split over how to push back against President Trump’s attempts to slash the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an embattled front line in the larger fight against the administration’s effort to overhaul the federal government. On one side are Democrats trying to enlist Republican allies, who have historically been staunch supporters...
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) says he thinks people need to “trust the process” in President Trump’s peace talks with Russian and Ukrainian leaders. “Right now, people are dying every single day. We do know we have the best negotiator possible in the White House,” Mullin said Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week.” “I mean, literally,...
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) said in an interview Sunday that the Trump administration has recently given a "mixed message" on Ukraine. “Well, I think it was a mixed [message] coming from the administration,” Shaheen told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.” "On the one hand, you heard Secretary Hegseth saying they were gonna...
