Texas dropped a major new voting-rights issue on the Supreme Court's doorstep Friday with an emergency request asking the justices to let the state use its new GOP-friendly map in the 2026 congressional elections.
House lawmakers spent their first full week back in Washington after the 43-day government shutdown fighting not just with the opposite party but within their own ranks.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said that the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell will “plead the Fifth” against congressional investigators. “Her lawyers have replied that she’s not going to answer any questions,” Comer told Politico in an interview Friday. “She’s only going to plead the Fifth.” ...
Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed an expedited motion seeking the release of the grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case amid an aggressive push by lawmakers to release all files related to the late convicted sex offender. Bondi filed the motion in the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida, leveraging the enactment of...
President Trump has sought to distance himself from Binance founder Changpeng Zhao after facing backlash for pardoning the cryptocurrency billionaire whose company has had business dealings with the Trump family’s digital finance venture. The president’s comments have revived scrutiny of his family’s financial interest in the crypto industry and Trump’s own repeated claims that former...
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are calling on ex-Prince Andrew to testify about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The BBC cited four Democrats on the committee, which is probing the Epstein case, requesting the former prince's testimony. “I would like for him to come to our committee and tell us everything he knows about...
I hope everyone had a good Halloween. The president certainly did — he spent his weekend throwing a Great Gatsby–themed party at Mar-a-Lago. Now, “The Great Gatsby,” for those who might’ve missed the symbolism in high-school English, is a story about excess, illusion and the moral decay behind wealth. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of the rich: “They were careless people … they smashed up things and...
The president of the union representing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers on Monday urged Congress to include health care protections in a bill to reopen the government as the shutdown approaches record length. “The U.S. government must be fully funded immediately, and that has to include funding for health care," said Justin Chen, president of...
Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro ripped Tucker Carlson over an interview Carlson conducted last week with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. "Tucker Carlson decided that it was important not only to host Fuentes but to smooth over his views, water them down and make them far more palatable to a normal audience," Shapiro said on a recent...
Ryan Neuhaus, who until Friday was chief of staff to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, left the conservative think tank in the wake of an uproar over a statement from Roberts last week defending Tucker Carlson after he interviewed antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes. A Heritage spokesperson confirmed Neuhaus’s departure. "Ryan was not fired. He...
Polling is giving observers a clearer picture of what to expect on Election Day as voters cast their ballots. Key elections in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City and California could hold big implications for what to expect in next year’s midterms. Here’s what the polling tells us about Tuesday’s major races: Virginia Throughout Virginia’s...
Voters are heading to the polls Tuesday to weigh in on critical races electing governors, mayors and more as observers look for clues about the national mood heading into next year’s midterms. New Jersey and Virginia are holding high-stakes elections for governor, among other top posts. In New York City, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani is...
President Trump has yet to formally endorse Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) in the state’s gubernatorial race just one day out from Election Day. To be sure, the president still has time to endorse her and is participating in a Virginia telerally Monday evening. But over the weekend, Trump rolled out a slew of...
The Republican Party is diversifying its electorate, but must come to terms with the fact that it has a chunk of its electorate that does not want candidates who are children of immigrants, non-Christian and even non-white running for office.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) suggested he should file a complaint with the federal government over the editing of an interview President Trump gave to "60 Minutes," which aired on Sunday night. "Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump White House for editing his unhinged 60 Minutes interview," Schumer wrote in a post...
A defense attorney in Michigan is pushing back on the FBI’s allegations that his client and a group of young men arrested on Friday were planning to carry out a violent attack over the Halloween weekend. FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrests of multiple individuals on Friday that he said were plotting a “potential...
