Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s impressive performance at the Munich Security Conference gives us an alluring glimpse of the president he could be one day.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday that President Trump remains intent on acquiring Greenland. "I think the desire from the U.S. president is exactly the same. He’s very serious about this," Frederiksen said at the Munich Security Conference, according to the BBC. Throughout December and January, the president raised his view that the U.S....
In an interview that aired Sunday, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) urged his party to take a more aggressive governing posture to fight back against the Trump administration and regain popularity. “There’s something that we have to make sure that we do better and that’s actually meet people where they are and move with a...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) declined to say whether President Trump is racist in an interview released Sunday, just over a week after a video depicting the Obamas as apes posted to the president’s Truth Social account sparked bipartisan backlash. “I think that’s a question for President Trump,” Moore, shaking his head, told CBS News’s...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who has teased a run for governor in South Carolina, is leading a hypothetical 2026 GOP gubernatorial field in new polling. The survey from the nonpartisan research organization South Carolina Policy Council found Mace with 16 percent support from Republican-identifying voters — 1 point ahead of state Attorney General Alan Wilson...
The Trump administration is recommending that a compound called 7-OH be scheduled as an illicit drug, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary announced Tuesday. The compound is a by-product of the Kratom plant whose ground leaves are sold as a dietary supplement to boost energy or provide pain relief. FDA officials said 7-OH...
Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) leads Republican Jack Ciattarelli by 8 points in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race in one of the first independent polls of the general election. The Fairleigh Dickinson University poll released on Tuesday showed Sherrill leading with 45 percent support to Ciattarelli’s 37 percent, with 16 percent of survey respondents undecided. The race...
Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock (Ga.) and Dick Durbin (Ill.) are set to reintroduce the Senate version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025, which would replace the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The duo introduced a similar bill last year seeking to "strengthen our democracy by reestablishing preclearance for jurisdictions with a pattern...
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said talks with China are "going in the right direction" as negotiators in Washington and Beijing try to break an impasse on tariffs. “Obviously, we've had a lot of tensions over the years. We've had tensions now. But the fact that we are regularly meeting with them to address these...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Transporation Secretary Sean Duffy are speaking Tuesday morning about legislative efforts to ensure aviation safety, including reauthorization and modernization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Following a slew of aviation accidents this year, Duffy called for a massive update to the FAA and air traffic control system's antiquated technology and...
Russia has continued its offensive, killing at least 22 people in Ukraine by launching ballistic missiles and glide bombs into multiple cities despite President Trump’s threats to slap sanctions and shorten the timeline for Moscow to agree to a ceasefire. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 73 cities and villages came under Russia’s overnight attack,...
Maria Shriver is blasting a GOP Congress member's bill that aims to rename the Kennedy Center after President Trump, calling the move "petty" and "small-minded." "This is insane," Shriver, a women's health advocate and former President Kennedy's niece, said about a bill introduced this month by Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) that would "designate the John F. Kennedy...
Former Rep. Wiley Nickel (D-N.C.) is ending his campaign for North Carolina’s Senate seat and endorsing Roy Cooper, a day after the former governor launched his much-anticipated bid. Nickel said in a statement on X on Tuesday that working alongside Cooper while he served in the state Senate and in Congress was an “honor,” and...
The Freedom of the Press Foundation has filed an ethics complaint against Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, arguing the close of ally of President Trump has "engaged in egregious misconduct," and calling for him to be disbarred. In the organization's complaint, filed with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals' Office of Disciplinary...
