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Miranda Devine: New FBI chat logs reveal extraordinary ‘gag order’ senior leadership used to shutdown any Hunter Biden laptop discussion

The conversations, withheld by the FBI under Director Chris Wray, show that senior leadership issued an internal “gag order” on the laptop. 

Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs on Canada in bid to roll back presidential emergency powers

Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.

Why voter ID won in Wisconsin

Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win […]

Booker says he hoped floor speech would be something that ‘would unify our caucus’

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday he hoped to unify the Democratic party with his marathon floor speech this week after the caucus grew bitterly divided in debates over the continuing resolution last month. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Booker described those tense moments behind closed doors last month,...

Vance, Harris seen as top 2028 White House contenders

Vice President JD Vance and former Vice President Kamala Harris are seen as top contenders for the White House in 2028 by their respective parties, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The poll, released Wednesday, asks Democrats and Republicans whom they would consider supporting in the 2028 presidential election and asks which person would be...

Hegseth: ‘Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday doubled down on his assertion that he did not share classified plans to strike Houthi targets in a Signal group chat of Trump administration officials that was inadvertently shared with a journalist, who he claimed “has never seen a war plan.” In a combative post to the social platform X,...

Going green: University of Maryland announces Kermit the Frog as commencement speaker

Prominent political figures and lawmakers on the commencement speaker circuit are about to have some friendly, froggy competition — Kermit the Frog will deliver the address to the University of Maryland's graduates this summer. The school teased the iconic green character's participation in the May 21 commencement ceremony with a video Wednesday touting Kermit's accomplishments as an...

Castro on Signal chat not being classified: ‘Y’all know that’s a lie’

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) said Trump intelligence officials lied when they said the information included in a Signal group chat did not include classified information. “The idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified – y'all know it was a lie. That's ridiculous. I've seen things much less...

Top Intel Democrat blasts Trump officials for failing to own ‘mistake of this magnitude’

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) on Wednesday blasted Trump national security officials on everything from their use of Signal to discuss attack plans to the administration's embrace of Russia. “The two general officers sitting at the table and the people who work for all of you know that if they had set up and participated in...

EMILY’s List unveils House targets

EMILY’s List, a political action committee backing abortion rights, on Wednesday unveiled House Republicans it is looking to help unseat in the 2026 midterm elections. “In 2026, we must take back the majority in the U.S. House to create a federal check on Donald Trump and beat back GOP attacks on our rights and our...

From ally to enemy: Turkey is no friend to the US 

Thanks to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey is no longer a reliable U.S. ally. There is no future for Turkish-American relations as long as he remains in power.

Ex-Pentagon spokesperson on Hegseth’s plans in chat: ‘Absolutely floored’

Former Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s messages in a Signal group chat about the Houthi attack have left her “absolutely floored.” “Pete Hegseth put the sequencing of the entire operation & types of aircraft that would be used to conduct these strikes all before the operation took place. He...

Trump reacts to new Atlantic messages: ‘Really not a big deal’

President Trump on Wednesday shrugged off new reporting from The Atlantic highlighting messages from a Signal group in which administration officials discussed specific timing of an attack on Houthi rebels. Trump was asked about the new development during an appearance on "The Vince Show" with Vince Coglianese. “There weren’t details, and there was nothing in...

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show draws 125 FCC complaints

Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance at Super Bowl LIX drew more than 120 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with the majority objecting to the rapper’s language and some dubbing it "racist" because "not one white person" was seen onstage. In total, 125 viewers sent complaints to the FCC in the wake of Lamar's performance last...

82 percent say presidents should obey federal court rulings: Survey

A majority of Americans say presidents should obey court rulings, according to the results of a new survey. The Reuters/Ipsos poll, unveiled Tuesday, found that 82 percent of respondents believe the president should heed to rulings from federal judges. Another 14 percent said the opposite. The sentiment comes amid growing frustration aimed at the judicial...

Trump could be pushing South Africa closer to China 

On Feb. 7, Trump issued the executive order “Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa.”  

Congress continues to seek answers on UFOs

UFO whistleblower David Grusch will be advising Missouri Rep. Eric Burlison on the issue.

‘Like a forest fire’: Where large measles outbreaks will occur, according to an epidemiologist

"What is interesting about this current outbreak is the speed at which it's expanding and increasing," said Dr. William Moss, an epidemiology professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the school's International Vaccine Access Center.

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