California was once a beacon of opportunity. Today, our great state maintains its natural blessings and abundance of potential, but both are being smothered by government inefficiency and fraud...
President Trump’s most significant economic initiative is now in the hands of the Supreme Court. The justices announced Tuesday they will fast track whether Trump can use emergency powers to justify his sweeping tariffs worldwide, expediting oral arguments to the first week of November. The stakes are tremendous. A loss at the high...
Former Vice President Harris suggests in her upcoming book that former President Biden’s decision to run for reelection last year amounted to “recklessness." “And of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out,” Harris said in an excerpt for "107 Days,"...
President Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" terminated electric vehicle tax credits and began phasing out subsidies for new wind and solar projects. These were important steps in ending what Trump calls the “Green New Scam” and undoing a huge piece of former President Joe Biden’s signature legislation, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. But the One Big...
The Polish Armed Forces said its airspace was “repeatedly violated’ by drone-like objects during a Russian attack on Ukraine, adding that a military operation was underway to neutralize the objects. “Attention, during today's attack by the Russian Federation carrying out strikes on targets located in the territory of Ukraine, our airspace was repeatedly violated by...
A federal judge late Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump's attempted ouster of Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb acknowledged that the firing and Cook's subsequent legal challenge raise "many serious questions" that the courts have not mulled before, but said that at this preliminary stage, Cook made a...
President Trump said the United States and India will continue negotiating the terms of their trade agreement, less than two weeks after the U.S. president slapped a new round of tariffs on India for purchasing Russian oil. In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi his “very good...
Democrats scored a win in the race to replace the late Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, narrowing the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw (D) handily defeated Republican Stewart Whitson, a former FBI agent, in the heavily Democratic-leaning district on Tuesday. The race offered some...
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani vowed on Tuesday to retaliate against Israel for its strike against Hamas’s political leadership based in Doha. “The State of Qatar is committed to act in a decisive way with anything that would target its territories and will reserve the right to retaliate and will take all...
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) and Josh Kraft, the son of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, advanced in the primary to the general election in the city’s mayoral race, Decision Desk HQ projects. The race call formally sets up the head-to-head battle between Wu, Boston’s first female mayor and first Asian American mayor, who...
Susan Monarez, the former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is set to testify before a Senate panel next Wednesday, Sept. 19, on the recent high-profile departures from the agency. On Tuesday, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced the committee would...
President Trump on Tuesday said he wasn't "thrilled" by Israel’s attack on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, but he told reporters he wasn’t caught off guard when it happened. “I’m not thrilled, I’m not thrilled about it,” he said. “I’m not thrilled about the whole situation, it’s not a good situation. “But, I will say...
President Trump ventured just outside the White House's grounds on Tuesday to dine in downtown Washington, D.C., to highlight the federal crime crackdown nearly a month after his decision to send National Guard troops to the nation's capital. The president went to Joe’s Stone Crab, which is a few blocks away from the White House,...
