Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signals support for JD Vance for 2028 presidential race in exclusive Fox News interview, calling the vice president a "great nominee."
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) proclaimed a “new era” as he took the helm of the country’s largest city on New Year’s Day. Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist whose star rocketed last year, was publicly sworn in on the steps of City Hall, where he addressed a crowd of thousands in a sweeping inauguration speech...
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) on Friday called on President Trump to expand the administration's seizures of Venezuelan oil tankers to tankers coming from Russia. "He’s been using our military to interdict oil tankers because there is this ghost fleet that helps keep Venezuela’s regime alive," Coons told Jonathan Lemire of "Morning Joe" on MS NOW....
Kennedy Center interim President Richard Grenell dismissed reports Friday that "Wicked" composer Stephen Schwartz canceled his upcoming performances at the venue, saying he had never signed a deal to perform under the new leadership. "The Stephen Schwartz reports are totally bogus," Grenell wrote on the social platform X. "Shame on the woke high school reporters...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) vowed Wednesday that if elected governor he'd strip driver’s licenses from federal immigration officers wearing masks in California. “If the governor has the ability to issue driver’s licenses to people in California, if you’re going to wear a mask and not identify yourself, you’re not going to be eligible to drive...
Outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday slammed President Trump’s threat to intervene in Iran as it cracks down on anti-government protests. Greene said on the social platform X that Trump’s pledge, along with Israeli billionaire Shlomo Kramer telling CNBC that the federal government should “limit the First Amendment” by cracking down on speech...
Newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has revoked a series of executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams (D), including some aimed at supporting Israel. In one of Mamdani’s first moves as mayor, he issued a directive to undo orders signed by Adams since Sept. 26, 2024, the day Adams was...
China's BYD overtook Elon Musk’s Tesla as the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) seller in 2025, as Tesla faced declining sales for a second year in a row. BYD said Thursday that it sold about 2.26 million EVs in 2025, up nearly 28 percent from the year before. In a release Friday, Tesla said it delivered about 1.64 million EVs last year, down around 9 percent from 2024. Musk’s EV firm also saw a...
Many of us have spent the last two weeks largely checked out and concentrating on happier things than the intimate details of Jeffrey Epstein’s private life. Sadly, that’s all about to change. Come Monday, it’s going to be all Epstein all the time. That’s because the Department of Justice has made a complete hash of...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday selected Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine's intelligence agency, to serve as his chief of staff as negotiations continue to end Russia’s war against the eastern European country. Zelensky wrote on the social platform X that Ukraine “needs greater focus on security issues, the development of the Defense and...
The Trump administration has violated the fundamental business principle of honoring legally binding contracts, which will cost both the Treasury and the people dearly and create obstacles to future governmental deal-making.
The man accused of planting pipe bombs outside of the Democratic and Republican national committee offices on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot will remain locked up while awaiting trial, a federal magistrate judge ruled. Judge Matthew Sharbaugh wrote in an order Friday that Brian Cole Jr.’s past alleged conduct demonstrates a “startling and significant capacity for dangerousness,” but acknowledged the...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Friday criticized President Trump’s threat to intervene as Iran cracks down on anti-government protests, arguing that the move would be more about oil than free speech concerns. The president vowed on Truth Social that the U.S. will “rescue” protesters if the Iranian regime takes violent action against them as demonstrations...
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologized this week after generating and sharing a sexualized image of two young girls, calling it a “failure in safeguards.” “I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an AI image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user's prompt,” the...
