When elected officials make false claims while activist groups organize crowds to provoke obstruction of the law, the line between protest and conspiracy collapses.
President Trump has informed Congress he will shut down the migrant camp in Qatar where the U.S. holds Afghan evacuees before they are allowed to reach America, a senior lawmaker said Wednesday.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin delivered his final State of the Commonwealth address on Wednesday, closing out a four-year run that steered Virginia out of the COVID-19 lockdowns and attracted substantial business investment and job growth. But his four years in office also ran into partisan gridlock and failed to translate his achievements into Republican gains at the ballot box.
President Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is slowing down a peace deal for the war in Ukraine, according to Reuters. "I think he's ready to make a deal," Trump said during a Reuters interview, talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin. "I think Ukraine is less ready to make a deal." When Reuters pressed the...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said that he has issued a "warning order" to prepare the Minnesota National Guard after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. “Donald Trump and his administration may not care much about Minnesota — that’s been pretty evident —...
President Trump on Wednesday said he “will not permit” defense companies to issue dividends or buy back their own stock until they invest more in military equipment production and address several other of his complaints. In a lengthy post to Truth Social, Trump said that “massive” shareholder dividends and buybacks were taking place “at the expense...
David Axelrod on Wednesday said the Trump administration’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was about oil and not to crack down on the transnational sale of drugs. “Now, this was about oil. and I think, you know, we’re going to continue to see this Friday. He's meeting with the oil executives. This is the...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday joked about a Venezuela-linked oil tanker seized by the U.S. flying a Russian flag, calling it a birthday present for his GOP colleague Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.). “To Senator @RandPaul, Happy Birthday!” Graham said in a post on the social platform X. "I hope today is full of family,...
President Trump on Wednesday ordered flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), who died Tuesday at the age of 65. “In honor of the late, GREAT, Congressman Doug LaMalfa, a true American Patriot and fantastic Representative of Northern California, yesterday I ordered all American Flags throughout the United...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth got into a tense exchange with a CNN reporter on Wednesday over the cost of U.S. intervention in Venezuela, accusing the outlet of being “disingenuous” in its coverage of last week’s military operation. “The question’s never asked how much does it cost when they’re in the Mediterranean or the Red Sea...
The White House on Wednesday unveiled new dietary guidelines, with officials calling it the "most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history." The new guidelines were represented with an upside-down pyramid placing vegetables, fruits, proteins, dairy and healthy fats at the top and whole grains at the bottom. "The new guidelines recognize that whole,...
ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers are getting increasingly serious about making the Peach State one of the few in the nation with no state income tax. If wholly abolished, Georgia would join states such as Florida, Texas and Tennessee. For income earned in 2025, Georgia’s flat individual income tax rate is 5.19 percent. A special state Senate...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is scheduled to address the United Kingdom Parliament later this month in honor of America’s 250th birthday. Johnson will be the first Speaker of the House to address the foreign legislative body on Jan. 20 in London. “As our nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of American Independence, I am honored and...
Grammy Award-winning banjo player Béla Fleck has pulled out of an upcoming show at The Kennedy Center, joining a growing group of artists refusing to play the venue following President Trump’s takeover of the arts and culture institution. Fleck announced in a Tuesday Instagram post that he withdrew from his performance with the National Symphony...
Days after a daring military operation to seize its leader, President Trump's gambit for Venezuela's massive oil reserves is coming into focus. That, and the future of Venezuela, are raising questions on Capitol Hill. The U.S. on Wednesday also seized two Venezuela-linked oil tankers in the North Atlantic. One vessel was flying a Russian flag....
George Conway, the pundit and Trump critic now running as a Democrat for Congress, on Wednesday criticized the new administration, saying it is being run like a “mob operation.” “You would have thought that January 6 would have been the height of his criminality, but it's worse now he is running the United States government...
