Gov. Kathy Hochul will have to use her leverage to neutralize the mayor’s rhetoric — and to fix the upcoming $22.8 billion MTA budget for 2027, whose woes aren’t Mamdani’s fault, but hers.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Trump's $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general.
Estimates vary, but even after President Donald Trump’s deportations, somewhere between 10 and 18 million illegal immigrants still live in the United States, and as New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s announcement last week shows, thousands of them are illegally voting in our elections. The Washington Examiner has editorialized in support of the Safeguard American Voter […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has yet to win any notable converts in the Trump administration's push for tens of billions of dollars to quickly inject into the Iran war, which has rapidly exhausted U.S. stockpiles and Pentagon coffers. The effort is further complicated by Republican senators losing confidence in Hegseth’s leadership of the U.S. military as the war with...
Businesses have taken different approaches in giving back change on cash transactions. A bill that passed the House this month could improve the situation.
Former California State Board of Education member Ben Austin argues that public schools must move away from political indoctrination by both the left and right to establish high-quality education as a fundamental civil right for all students.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Sunday slammed the current U.S. conflict with Iran, saying that “it’s remarkable in many ways” that the U.S. military hasn’t faced more death in the fighting — comments that followed the death of two service members on Friday. “Well, first of all, condolences to the service members' families, and it's...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Sunday said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) should "sit down" after floating the possibility of arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his upcoming visit to the U.N. General Assembly. "Well, [he's] such a tough guy to say that kind of thing. He has no way to do...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Sunday said President Trump could "do something positive" instead of talking about the 2020 presidential election, clapping at the president's primetime speech on Thursday about election security. "I don't know why the president is dragging up all this stuff," Fetterman told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." "You're...
The path to Sunday’s World Cup final between Argentina and Spain has been dotted with political moments. President Trump, inevitably, was to the fore. Trump’s intervention to get Team USA star Folarin Balogun off the hook after the striker was sent off against Bosnia and Herzegovina sparked an international storm. Balogun’s red card would have...
Michigan Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (D) on Sunday ripped into CNN host Jake Tapper for asking him questions related to Iran and Israel, specifically about past comments the candidate has made. Tapper first asked El-Sayed about a comment New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) made to The New York Times. When asked if...
Rep. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) said Sunday that Israel is “our strongest ally in the Middle East” after being questioned about a recent vote in the House where more than 100 Democrats voted to cut off aid to Israel. “This is the time to provide that humanitarian support to ensure that the Palestinians are looking at...
President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.
Retired U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis on Sunday warned that the U.S. should watch Iran’s actions in the Suez Canal. “It’s got more traffic flowing through it than the Strait of Hormuz and the Iranians are beginning to make noises about attempting to close that, using the Houthis in the southwest corner,” Stavridis told CNN’s...
As Congress considers how to respond to AI-enabled fraud, it should also revisit a tax code that treats victims differently depending on whether they were manipulated with promises of wealth or promises of love.
