Robert Mueller is dead, but his toxic legacy lives on in the destroyed lives of the innocent victims targeted by the Russia collusion probe that bears his name.
Some journalists at Voice of America charged in a lawsuit Monday that the Trump administration - while largely shutting down the government-run outlet that provides news around the world - has turned what remains into a voice for propaganda.
The debut episode of “Saturday Night Live U.K.” opened with a dig at the relationship between British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Trump. Starmer, played by George Fouracres, is visibly nervous at calling Trump. In recent days, the president has criticized his British counterpart amid the war with Iran, including for what he called...
Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Sunday urged lawmakers to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and pay its employees, which has been in a shutdown for over a month. Johnson, who served under former President Obama, said in an appearance on the “Cats Roundtable” radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is grappling with an attendance issue as lawmakers begin to prioritize the 2026 midterms, potentially complicating the passage of key measures in the months ahead. The predicament was on full display this week: 22 Republicans did not vote for any bills on Tuesday, followed by seven on Wednesday and five on...
Student behavior in the classroom is not improving, and teachers want parents to do more. An Education Week survey released this month found 64 percent of teachers reporting classroom behavior has gotten worse in the past year. Their No. 1 solution, coming from more than 60 educators, is smaller class sizes. But teachers also said...
President Trump on Saturday threatened to "obliterate" Iran's power plants if it doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz within the next two days. Trump's warning comes one day after he hinted that the U.S. was "winding down" its military operation in Iran, claiming the U.S. was "getting very close" to achieving its objective. "If Iran...
A jury on Friday found that Elon Musk misled Twitter's shareholders by driving down Twitter's stock price ahead of his $44 billion acquisition of the company in 2022. The San Francisco jury were asked if two tweets and comments made by Musk on a podcast showed that he deliberately defrauded the shareholders and drove down...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Friday dropped his lawsuit against Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte after Swalwell was accused of mortgage fraud. Swalwell sued Pulte in November, accusing him of abusing his authority in forwarding a criminal referral regarding the lawmaker’s mortgage to the Department of Justice. Swalwell asked the courts to demand Pulte...
Comedian Bill Maher on Friday outlined his list of ways that he thinks the U.S. "f---ed up" its strategy in attacking Iran. "You know where we f---ed up? A few places," he told guests Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Democratic strategist Paul Begala on his HBO show "Real Time." "One, we're blowing up each...
Senate Democrats and Republicans appeared no closer to reaching a deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Saturday, following weeks of negotiations with the White House. President Trump's border czar Tom Homan has been meeting with centrist Democrats over the past few days to try to find a path forward on a...
The U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran stretches out for another week after President Trump said he is considering "winding down" military operations as the U.S. gets "very close" to its military objectives. Trump made the remarks on Friday, citing Iran's diminished missile capacity, destroyed defense response and "Never allowing Iran to get even close to Nuclear...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a leading Senate conservative, is proposing to colleagues the idea of splitting off Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from the rest of funding for the Department of Homeland Security to end growing chaos at airports around the country. The proposal appeared to be gaining momentum...
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) are locked into their Senate primary runoff fight as they court President Trump's coveted endorsement. Trump teased days after the rivals advanced to a runoff that he’d back one candidate and ask the other to exit the race. But Tuesday, the formal dropout date, passed without that...
