According to a lengthy release issued by Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office Tuesday, Hizzoner has discovered that Jew hatred in Gotham is dangerous and widespread.
In Sen. Eric Schmitt's effort to trip up former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith on Tuesday, the Missouri Republican seemed to mistake basketball teams playing about 650 miles apart.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended the rollout of a four-bill package on Wednesday that has come under fire from the conservative wing of the House GOP, appearing to lower expectations for Republicans given the party’s razor-thin majority. A trio of foreign aid bills will include military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and allies in the Indo-Pacific...
House Judiciary Committee Republicans subpoenaed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas shortly before the Senate dismissed articles of impeachment against him. The subpoena issued by Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asks the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to turn over a breakdown of how many “illegal aliens” have been permitted to enter the country during...
U.S. naval forces have spent nearly $1 billion in the Middle East, including on efforts to fend off drone and missile attacks from the Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said this week. Del Toro told lawmakers on the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday that Navy sailors deployed...
Senators quickly decided Wednesday not to hold a trial on the two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Senate voted to dismiss the charges by sustaining two points of order raised by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) asserting that they did not rise “to the level of a high crime or...
The Senate voted Wednesday to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, shutting down the possibility of a lengthy Senate trial, which Republicans had demanded to bring attention to the Biden administration’s record on immigration and border security. It marked the first time in 225 years the Senate voted to immediately...
The White House on Wednesday praised the Senate for dismissing two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, reiterating its stance that the effort was baseless. “Once and for all, the Senate has rightly voted down this baseless impeachment that even conservative legal scholars said was unconstitutional,” said Ian Sams, White House spokesperson...
United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Wednesday that Israel has decided to respond to the attacks Iran launched against Israel over the weekend. Cameron's remarks come as the foreign secretary traveled to Israel on Wednesday, just days after Iran launched a missile and drone attack on the U.S. ally. Cameron told reporters he traveled...
A quartet of Columbia University officials largely avoided a viral breakout moment in a Wednesday House hearing on antisemitism, but still struggled in multiple areas when they were peppered with questions from Republican lawmakers. The viral question that last year stumped the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute...
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) joined a resolution from Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) that aims to overturn a new rule on climate disclosures approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month. Manchin, the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined with 32 Republican senators to co-sponsor the resolution. The SEC finalized...
Americans' confidence in the U.S. military dipped last year, losing its top spot among the other Group of Seven (G7) countries, according to a new Gallup poll. American's confidence in the U.S. military dipped to 81 percent in 2023, down 5 points from 2022, when confidence stood at 86 percent. That's according to a new...
President Biden on Wednesday came out in support of Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) proposal for three separate bills providing U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, urging passage of the bills this week. “The House must pass the package this week and the Senate should quickly follow. I will sign this into law immediately...
