1979—Taking advantage of its (and the House’s) massive increase in the number of judgeships a year earlier, the Democrat-controlled Senate confirms on a single day 25 of…
A Texas system error left tens of thousands of voter registration applications unprocessed for months, forcing county election officials to race to process the large backlogs weeks out from the midterm elections. The Texas secretary of state’s office alerted election officials to the issue last week involving a problem with the Department of Public Safety’s...
Right-wing commentator Scott Jennings expressed ambivalence Wednesday about President Trump’s offer to give $5,000 to American adults if Republicans win this year’s midterms. “I don't know that that is the right idea here,” Jennings told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on "The Source," talking about the proposal. “What the right idea is, is growth, which we have,...
The White House television pool was in limbo Thursday as the status of the major networks’ place in the press pool remained unclear following the reinstatement of CNN’s access to White House grounds. Journalists from ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News were on hand at the White House Thursday ready to cover Chinese President Xi...
President Trump blasted CNN and MS NOW on Thursday over their coverage of his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which did not include live video coverage and came as a federal judge reinstated the outlets' White House access. "CNN and MSDNC, to show you how fake they are, today refused to cover one of...
In today's issue: ▪ Xi’s state visit kicks off ▪ Judge strikes down media ban ▪ Debate over how to tackle diesel costs ▪ Forecasters shift races toward Democrats Chinese President Xi Jinping is meeting with President Trump today for high-stakes talks that could touch on several points of tension between their countries, including artificial intelligence...
When Masoud Pezeshkian stood before the United Nations, he spoke in the name of Iran. That was the first deception. The Islamic Republic — the Shia Caliphate — is not Iran. Khomeinist ideology has been imposed upon a civilization that long predates the order established in 1979. Yet Pezeshkian carried the same exhausted script: victimhood,...
Judges’ views on climate change are being influenced by an organization bragging that its purpose is to build and enable “a network of judges and scientists advancing climate science education for the judiciary.”
Winter is soon coming, and so too is a growing dread across Europe. It is dawning on European capitals that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s only conventional path to victory in Ukraine may lie through the Baltic States. Kyiv’s fortress Donbas in eastern Ukraine remains largely impenetrable. Despite Russian claims in advance of last week’s Duma elections that...
When Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) wanted to promote his new book this week, he invited Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) — one of his potential 2028 presidential rivals — to join him onstage and help moderate the event. On Tuesday night, the two governors appeared together before a Beltway crowd, with Moore giving Beshear...
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is in the middle of a fight over a Trump health nominee, presenting a key test of her commitment to being an abortion-rights Republican. Dr. Heidi Overton, President Trump's nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will testify Thursday in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)...
China hawks on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. are seething as President Trump prepares to welcome the country’s President Xi Jinping for what is expected to be a lavish three-day state visit to Washington. Unlike with other world leaders, Trump is pulling out all the stops for his Chinese counterpart. Trump took...
President Trump’s disapproval rating hits the highest mark it has during his second White House stint amid rising energy costs and economic woes, according to a new poll. In an Emerson College poll, Trump’s disapproval rating hit 58 percent, while 39 percent of respondents approved of Trump’s handling of his job as president. The disapproval...
