Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) almost looks like a centrist now. That would have been a strange thing to say eight years ago, when she knocked off Rep. Joe Crowley, then the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, and became the face of a new left flank that made party leaders nervous. She and the rest of […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who died unexpectedly on Saturday at age 71, was an unlikely GOP leader in the age of President Donald Trump. Graham could easily have become irrelevant once Trump became the unquestioned head of the Republican Party. The South Carolina senator was a top ally of longtime Sen. John McCain. They and […]
China has unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer, LineShine, which was able to bypass U.S. export restrictions by using a network of CPU standard microprocessors instead of GPUs.
Democratic socialists are back in the spotlight after notching two high-profile mayoral primary victories in major cities this month. In Washington, D.C., this past week, progressive Democrat Janeese Lewis George outperformed moderate Kenyan McDuffie, all but assuring she’ll succeed Mayor Muriel Bowser. The week before in Los Angeles, fellow Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Nithya...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) joked about President Trump backing both Republican runoff candidates to be her state’s governor. Mace — who made her own bid for South Carolina governor this year — on Saturday took to social media to respond to Trump's TruthSocial post backing both candidates. "LMAO," she wrote on the social platform X,...
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday said he doesn't think “that the president is always getting good advice” from his advisers. “Do you trust that the president is being given advice by people who think their loyalty is to the Constitution?” NBC News’s Garrett Haake asked Esper — who served in President Trump's first...
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) on Sunday acknowledged that there were concessions in the Iran deal as critics continue to raise concerns with the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed last week. “There are a lot of concessions, but let's keep in mind that this is a work in progress. And keep in mind that this memorandum...
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Sunday said Senate Republicans must do the "hard work" to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a voter ID bill touted by President Trump as his legislative priority. Lee told "Fox News Sunday" host Shannon Bream that the SAVE America Act makes "it easy to vote, hard...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said he asked President Trump to proceed with U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton as his pick to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) after he said he would delay his nomination. Graham told CBS News's "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday said that Tehran is receiving “all of the benefits” from the deal to end the war in Iran. “When you have Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and progressives, all coming out talking about capitulation, surrender, catastrophe, you know how bad this deal is,” Booker told NBC News’s Garrett Haake on...
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Sunday said lawmakers will "push hard" for answers behind the bombing that destroyed an Iranian girls school on the day U.S. and Israeli airstrikes first fell on the Middle Eastern country earlier this year. Crow accused the Trump administration of "slow rolling" answers about what happened at Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary...
Former national security adviser Susan Rice railed against President Trump's memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran, ripping the 14-point agreement as "flimsy." "It's egregious, Jon," Rice told ABC News's Jonathan Karl on Sunday, "because so many concessions were granted up front in this flimsy two-page memorandum of understanding that wouldn't normally and shouldn't have been...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said he thinks the tentative deal between the U.S. and Iran will fail. "If you don't have a diplomatic path through the MOU, then you have to go to war, or some other form of coercion," Graham told CBS News's "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan, referring to the...
The PLAN for School Safety Act is a bipartisan bill that provides targeted grants to establish or strengthen expert-led, state-based School Safety Centers, which will provide customized consulting services to help local schools design, improve, and execute evidence-based safety plans tailored to their community's unique environment.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is looking to use his political power to reshape New York’s congressional delegation less than six months after taking office. The popular mayor has made endorsements in multiple contests ahead of Tuesday’s House primaries in New York, including for progressive challengers to two sitting Democratic congressmen. One of these picks...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz is returning "back towards normal," a day after Iranian officials signaled they would be closing the vital waterway due to Israeli strikes in Lebanon. The Trump administration official said 67 ships went through the strait on Saturday, a slight...
