LA firefighters union chief Freddy Escobar didn’t set out to become the latest casualty in Mayor Karen Bass’s endless game of political self-preservation.
In today’s issue: Democrats are feeling increasingly bullish about their prospects for the midterm elections with less than six months remaining before voters head to the polls. History is on their side, as the party out of power has typically gained seats in Congress in most midterms. But they’re starting to show signs of a chance to flip control of both...
The PGA Tour returned to President Trump’s golf resort in Doral, Fla., over the weekend, ending a decade-long absence and signaling a new era of warmer relations between the president's sprawling resort business and the world's most popular golf league. The tournament came as LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed and Trump-allied rival tour, appears on the...
Senate Republicans say the dysfunction in the House is becoming a liability for the broader GOP brand ahead of this year’s midterm elections, warning that if Congress can’t break through legislative gridlock the party’s candidates will pay a severe political price in November. Republican senators were dumbfounded by their House brethren’s refusal to pass a...
A bid by hard-line conservatives to pass a measure banning the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) fell short, but the fight is only poised to escalate as both chambers revisit another extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance powers in the weeks ahead. Conservatives have long sought...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that energy prices will go down after the Strait of Hormuz, which has been closed amid the U.S. conflict against Iran, is opened again. “Well, listen, so I'm at [the Department of Transportation (DOT)], I'm not in the energy sector. But, from all the briefings I've had, once the...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Sunday said it will investigate a United Airlines plane that struck a pole on the New Jersey Turnpike. “The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into Sunday’s incident involving United Airlines Flight 169, a Boeing 767-400 operating from Venice to Newark, which struck a light pole...
President Trump went after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) over a comment he made following a recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act. “Hakeem Jeffries, a Low IQ individual, said our Supreme Court is ‘illegitimate.’ After saying such a thing, isn’t he subject to Impeachment? I got impeached for A PERFECT PHONE...
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) has been hospitalized but is in stable condition, a spokesperson told The Hill on Sunday. "Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition. Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength,...
A preservation watchdog group asked a federal judge Sunday to block the Trump administration from going ahead with reported plans to close East Potomac Golf Links for renovations. NOTUS reported Friday that landscaping, deferred maintenance and tree-clearing work would begin on Monday at the course, located on Hains Point outside of Washington, D.C. The course...
President Trump said Sunday that the U.S. will assist in freeing ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for the oil industry, which has been closed during the conflict with Iran. “Countries from all over the World, almost all of which are not involved in the Middle Eastern dispute going on so visibly,...
President Trump arrived at his Doral golf resort on Sunday, as the PGA Tour returned to the venue for the first time since 2016. The president was caught on camera in a spectator suite during the Golf Channel broadcast of the final round of the Cadillac Championship. He was joined by his son, Eric Trump,...
Democrats see an opening ahead of the midterm elections with increasingly disappointed Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) voters. Many activists in the MAHA base are furious with the Trump administration over its backing of a controversial weed killer and pesticides more broadly. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s defense of those moves...
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that there are no “timeouts” when it comes to the 60-day War Powers Act deadline. “The language of the statutes — is, does not provide for timeouts like in a football game. From the day you begin — 60 days...
