Thousands of Greenlanders carefully marched across snow and ice to take a stand against U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday. They held signs of protest, waved their national flag and chanted "Greenland is not for sale" in support of their own self-governance in the face of increasing threats of an American takeover.
Abigail Spanberger is officially Virginia's first female governor, setting the stage for a 180-degree turnover in a state where Democrats now will hold a political trifecta.
When President Donald Trump announced the audacious capture of Nicolas Maduro to face drug trafficking charges in the U.S., he portrayed the strongman's vice president and longtime aide as America's preferred partner to stabilize Venezuela amid a scourge of drugs, corruption and economic mayhem.
President Trump said Saturday on social media that he would impose a 10% import tax on eight European countries until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) slammed his Republican colleagues on Tuesday by referring to one of their outspoken allies as a testament to how much the GOP "messed up" their control of Congress. “Republicans have been in charge for 292 days. That’s 292 days to do something, anything, to lower costs, to bring down prices, to...
Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, hours after Democrats on the committee released emails in which the disgraced financier alleged that President Trump "knew about the girls." Earlier Wednesday, Democrats on the committee released three emails...
Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.), a rare Democrat who has defended President Trump at times, on Wednesday said new reports that the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein mentioned Trump in detail in his emails is “absolutely troubling.” “I have followed it, of course,” Fetterman told CNN’s Dana Bash when asked about Epstein’s emails mentioning Trump. “Yeah,...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said lawmakers could vote on releasing all of the files tied to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before the end of the year. “Look, we're going to get the 218th signature today. That means by early December we're going to get a full vote on the Epstein files,”...
President Trump and other administration officials reached out to key Republicans who have signed on to an effort to force a vote on releasing files about Jeffrey Epstein in the hours before the push was set to succeed on Wednesday. CNN reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel...
President Trump warned Republicans Wednesday against engaging with the latest round of documents released from the Jeffrey Epstein case, which included emails in which the sex offender referenced Trump. "The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that President Trump “remains in exceptional health” following a question about an MRI he underwent last month. “As stated in the memo provided on Oct. 10, President Trump received advanced imaging at Walter Reed Medical Center as part of his routine physical examination,” Leavitt told reporters...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is making his presence known at the United Nations climate summit, slamming the Trump administration for “doubling down on stupid” by missing talks in Belém, Brazil. Newsom, a potential Democratic nominee for president in 2028, is among the top American politicians at COP30. He had terse words for his political...
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...
