Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Wednesday slammed incoming New York mayor Zohran Mamdani for being sworn in with the Quran, the sacred scripture of Islam. “The enemy is inside the gates,” Tuberville wrote in a post on X, where he also posted a screenshot of a New York Times piece on Mamdani’s historic decision. Mamdani, who will be...
President Trump was briefed by CIA Director John Ratcliffe at the White House on Wednesday, where he was informed that there is that there is no evidence Ukraine launched an attack on Putin’s residence, NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer and Kevin Bohn have learned. The briefing happened two days after Russia accused Ukraine of trying to attack...
The U.S. military blew up two alleged drug-trafficking boats in the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) area of responsibility on Wednesday, continuing the Trump administration counternarcotics campaign in the Western Hemisphere. The forces killed five "narco-terrorists" in two boats operated by a designated terrorist organization. Three people were killed in the first boat and two were...
Hospitals, nursing homes and other medical facilities are struggling to gain ground on a drug-resistant and deadly fungus that has infected at least 7,000 people in 2025, according to tracking by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared a video Tuesday of its agents in Minnesota, amid a federal investigation into alleged fraud within the state’s social services programs. The video, which DHS shared to the social platform X, shows a pair of agents from its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) providing a person in a store,...
The Trump administration's military operations to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by targeting "narco-terrorists" have broadened to include a land attack, according to reports out Tuesday. The CIA carried out a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week, The New York Times and CNN both reported. President Trump has described the operation...
The Trump administration on Monday reached an agreement to reevaluate thousands of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant applications that were stalled or cut because of their perceived connection to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The agreement between the administration, unions and Democratic state attorneys general resolves part of a lawsuit filed against the administration for canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in research funds. A federal judge in Boston previously ruled that the terminations were unlawful...
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) will hold a private swearing-in ceremony late Wednesday night at an abandoned subway station built more than a century ago. "When Old City Hall Station first opened in 1904 — one of New York’s 28 original subway stations — it was a physical monument to a city that...
Democratic strategist David Axelrod says President Trump’s focus on lavish renovations at the White House and Kennedy Center could hurt Republicans on the ballot in the 2026 midterms. In an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront,” the former Obama administration official compared Trump to Marie Antoinette, the 18th-century French queen who became known for royal...
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration must secure funding for a consumer watchdog agency or risk violating an existing court order barring its shuttering, rejecting a novel legal argument from the government. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) must continue to request...
The CIA reportedly conducted a drone strike on a Venezuelan port facility last week, an attack that President Trump revealed during a radio interview on Dec. 26, marking the U.S.’s first known land strike inside the country amid its mounting pressure campaign on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The CIA struck a remote dock on the...
For years, there has been a debate about where the Democratic Party should go. One side is the wants the party to embrace democratic socialism; the other side supports the neoliberal framework that helped destroy America’s middle class, weakened unions and left rural America feeling abandoned. What both sides consistently don’t see is that the...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi criticized a record U.S. arms sale to Taiwan on Tuesday, as his country conducts military drills around the island. The Trump administration on Dec. 17 announced the sale of more than $11 billion in weapons to Taiwan, which was approved by the State Department. “In response to the continuous provocations...
