During her 2022 campaign against GOP opponent Lee Zeldin, Hochul, in what had started as a routine public appearance, suddenly demanded that Republicans “just jump on a bus and...
A group of preschoolers in the Bronx received a visit from former President Obama and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Saturday, the first meeting between the two men coming just over a week after Mamdani marked his 100th day in office. The pair read to children at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center...
Vice President JD Vance thanked Pope Leo XIV on Saturday after the pontiff sought to downplay a days-long clash with President Trump and said he didn't want to engage in a public debate with the president. The pope said earlier on Saturday that some of the coverage of his comments throughout his papal visit to...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the Portland Police Department in Oregon, days after a conservative influencer was arrested amid a federal crime crackdown in the city. Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ's assistant attorney general for civil rights, "signed, sealed [and] delivered!" a letter to Portland police about the investigation on Friday, according to a...
Zohran Mamdani appears to have a plan for leveling the playing fields in education. Faced with a huge number of students with comparably dismal scores in math, English, and science, Mamdani is going to bulldoze higher-achieving programs. It is a pledge that only Soviet central planner would relish. By eliminating gifted and talented program in...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday blasted Russia for a "savage" drone strike on a railway station overnight that injured dozens of people. Zelensky said the strike took place in the Sumy region, just northeast of Kyiv, and emergency personnel were already on the scene. At least 30 injuries have been identified, he added. "Preliminary...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the NFL will not be “able to sleep at night” over its decision to pick Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny as the 2026 halftime performer. “Well, they suck, and we'll win, and God will bless us, and we'll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the...
President Trump’s administration was hit Friday with a federal lawsuit over its quest to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled international employees. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court Northern District of California, is led by a coalition of religious organizations, health care providers, unions, higher education professionals and...
The Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act would require federally regulated health plans to cover diagnostic and supplemental breast imaging — fully, with no out-of-pocket cost to patients.
Senate Republicans are pushing intensely to nab the five additional Democratic votes they need to unlock their bill to end the government shutdown. Republicans have shown little willingness to negotiate on the top Democratic priority — an extension of enhanced health care subsidies — as part of any funding deal, and instead are attempting to...
The anti-abortion movement's patience with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is wearing thin following the agency’s recent approval of a second generic version of mifepristone, one of two drugs taken for a medication abortion. President Trump repeatedly pledged during the campaign last year that he would leave abortion policy to the states, but...
New Jersey GOP gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli said on Friday that he never saw Democratic candidate Mikie Sherrill’s leaked military records, as his opponent has sought to attack him over its circulation. “I never saw those files, nor did I put the request in. And anybody that states otherwise is lying,” Ciattarelli told anchor Dan...
A federal judge on Friday ruled that there is "realistic likelihood" the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year, was "vindictive." "The Court holds that the totality of events creates a sufficient evidentiary basis to conclude that there is a 'realistic likelihood of vindictiveness' that entitles Abrego...
