Sensible New Yorkers already were having anxiety attacks about their next mayor before a series of terrifying events in America and around the world underscored what an extraordinarily bad...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Monday that "the dam is breaking” on President Trump’s influence over the Republican Party. “I think the dam is breaking. Many Republicans may not have called him out, but last week, 13 Republicans voted with Democrats to overturn one of President Trump's executive orders, which enabled him to fire...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed briefings on recent strikes on alleged drug boats, calling them “a joke.” “Were you satisfied with the answers that — you’ve gotten so far today in these classified briefings —” journalist Pablo Manríquez asked Ocasio-Cortez in a clip posted to the social platform X Tuesday. “Oh hell no,” the New...
Republicans on the House Rules Committee on Tuesday shut the door on amendments to extend the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, effectively setting the stage for a surge in health insurance premiums as Congress leaves for winter recess later this week. A group of moderate Republicans offered the amendments during a committee debate on a...
Operation Midway Blitz intensifies as Border Patrol deploys additional agents to Chicago despite local officials' opposition to federal immigration raids.
President Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Biden-era Clean Air Act regulations for two years. Trump on Friday issued a proclamation exempting facilities known as coke ovens from a rule limiting their releases of pollutants, such as mercury, formaldehyde, soot and dioxins. Coke ovens are chambers where coal is heated to produce coke, which is a fuel...
Offer Vince Shlomi, commonly known as the “ShamWow guy" after his series of towel infomercials, is running for a House seat in Texas with a pitch to “soak up the swamp,” according to primary filing information from the Texas GOP. Shlomi — a former fixture on American infomercials where he hawked “ShamWow” towels, which he touted...
Location, location, location. That’s what matters now on X, because Elon Musk has just rolled out a hugely important new feature, and it’s confirming what some of us have suspected was the case for some time now. It turns out that many of the openly racist and anti-Semitic accounts on X that claim to be...
Donald Trump defended Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying "things happen", which was seen as a line of decency being crossed.
A federal judge on Monday dismissed the cases against two of President Trump’s political adversaries after finding that the prosecutor Trump handpicked to pursue charges against them was unlawfully appointed. U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie said Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. attorney selected by Trump to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), was never eligible...
The first person to contract H5N5 avian influenza, a rare strain of the disease known as bird flu, died in Washington state Friday. The state’s Department of Health said in a release the resident of Grays Harbor County was an “older adult with underlying health conditions” who had been hospitalized in King County since early...
A federal judge on Monday dismissed the cases against two of President Trump’s political adversaries after finding that the prosecutor Trump handpicked to pursue charges against them was unlawfully appointed. U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie said Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. attorney selected by Trump to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), was never eligible...
More than 200 state lawmakers are urging Congress to reject a potential provision in an annual defense bill that would preempt state laws regulating AI. In a letter to both the House and Senate, the bipartisan group argued Monday that states need to retain the ability to act as AI continues to develop and raise...
President Trump on Monday suggested that an end to Russia's more than three-years-long war in Ukraine is in sight after Secretary of State Marco Rubio led talks in Geneva over the weekend. “Is it really possible that big progress is being made in Peace Talks between Russia and Ukraine???” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth...
First lady Melania Trump is scheduled to welcome the official White House Christmas tree early Monday afternoon. The tree, which will be posted in the Blue Room, is a 25-foot concolor fir from Korson's Tree Farms in Michigan, according to the White House. Watch the North Lawn event, scheduled for noon EST, in the video...
