María Corina Machado won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless fight to restore freedom in Venezuela and defeat the authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro.
Even for a president who has long made clear he's no fan of Somalia, the latest round of White House contempt was a shock Wednesday in the country's largest Somali community.
A favorite pastime of election watchers and political operatives is to extrapolate every little detail possible from the results of an off-year or off-cycle election. This week was no different. On Tuesday night, Republican congressional candidate Matt Van Epps successfully held Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District for the GOP, while underperforming the district’s recent GOP margins. […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of covering up lethal strikes carried out on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and placing the lives of U.S. service members at risk. "You know, when the president chooses a Fox News commentator to run the most important, most complicated, most...
A dozen former leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday slammed the Trump administration over its changes to vaccine policy, calling these changes a threat to public safety. “We are deeply concerned by sweeping new FDA assertions about vaccine safety and proposals that would undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure...
At a time when the largest corporations in the U.S. are working to outmaneuver every kind of labor regulation, New Jersey has drawn a line in the sand. Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo have sued Amazon for misclassifying drivers on its Uber-like Flex delivery app as independent contractors, and for related wage-theft,...
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration cannot immediately cut funding or issues fines against the University of California (UC) system over its allegations of discrimination and antisemitism. U.S. District Court Judge Rita Lin placed a preliminary injunction against threats to funding, citing the administration's repeated vow to launch civil rights investigations...
The Trump administration, long critical of the way colleges handle campus protests, is sending a clear warning after multiple arrests were made outside of a Turning Point USA event this week. The Department of Justice (DOJ) swiftly announced an investigation after anti-fascist demonstrators gathered at the University of California, Berkeley, against the last Turning Point...
Furious Democrats are set to train their fire far beyond the eight Senate Democrats who cut a deal to end the shutdown, directing their frustration into defeating establishment-leaning candidates in primaries across the country. None of the eight Senate Democrats who helped Republicans pass the government funding bill this week are up for reelection in...
Reid Hoffman on Friday responded to President Trump’s order to launch an investigation against him and other Democrats in relation to their connection with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “The call for an investigation is an obvious ploy to avoid releasing the files. Simply release all the files, and expose the people who had both...
President Trump on Friday said he has "no idea" what was analyzed when he underwent an MRI during his physical examination last month, potentially raising more questions about some secrecy surrounding the president's health. "I have no idea what they analyzed," Trump told reporters on Air Force One while en route to his Mar-a-Lago resort....
Disney and YouTubeTV announced a carrier deal late Friday that will restore ABC, ESPN and the media conglomerate's other content to the Google-owned streaming service. The deal came after a two-week standoff between the pair of media giants that left an estimated 10 million YouTubeTV subscribers without access to top college football and NFL games...
President Trump said on Friday that he has “sort of made up” his mind when it comes to next steps on Venezuela, as he has held multiple meetings this week with senior military officials on potential military options the U.S. could take against Caracas. “I sort of made up my mind,” Trump told reporters aboard...
President Trump on Friday said he would sue the BBC for potentially billions after the news outlet misleadingly edited clips from his Jan. 6, 2021, speech ahead of the Capitol insurrection. “We'll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5 billion, probably sometime next week,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One. “I...
President Trump late Friday announced he is pulling his endorsement and support of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and would support a primary challenge against her — a major escalation of their growing beef after months of the House Republican criticizing fellow GOP members and the commander in chief himself. "I am withdrawing my support...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) said flight reductions will be lowered from 6 percent to 3 percent on Saturday as plane operations recover from the longest shutdown in the country’s history. “The decision reflects improvements in air traffic controller staffing levels and a continued decline in staffing-trigger events across the...
A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer received a 15-year prison sentence for allowing smugglers to transport vehicles filled with drugs across the southern border, according to a Thursday release from the Department of Justice (DOJ). The former officer, Diego Bonillo, was charged with conspiracy to import controlled substances and importation of controlled...
