A new statewide survey from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies suggests something remarkable — and deeply troubling — could happen this November.
ATLANTA - The two candidates running to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District faced off in a debate Sunday, offering a contrast in both tone and policy ahead of the April 7 runoff election. Democrat Shawn Harris and Republican Clay Fuller, President Trump’s endorsed candidate, used the stage to...
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf is the speaker of Iran's Parliament, and has spent decades inside the political circles of Tehran that wield power and influence in the country. On Monday, sources told multiple outlets that Ghalibaf is leading talks with President Trump on behalf of Iran as both sides contemplate their strategies and the potential for de-escalation...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that President Trump sees an opportunity for a deal with Iran as the U.S.-Israeli conflict with the Middle Eastern country rages on. “Earlier today I spoke with our friend President Trump. President Trump believes there is an opportunity to leverage the tremendous achievements we have reached alongside the...
The Trump-aligned company tasked with creating the $220 million ad featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem got a $60,000 signing bonus for making the commercial, during which time it spent $20,000 on horse rentals, lawmakers revealed Monday. The breakdown, secured as part of an investigation from Sens. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), offers new details about...
The Trump administration and French oil major TotalEnergies announced an agreement Monday under which the government would reimburse the company for oil and gas investments as the company abandons investments in wind power off the U.S. coast. The administration said in a press release that the company would invest about $1 billion in oil, gas...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Federal Aviation Administrator Bryan Bedford will address reporters on Monday afternoon after a fatal crash involving a jet and a fire truck on a runway at LaGuardia International Airport in New York. The aircraft was attempting to land when it struck the emergency vehicle, which was traveling across the runway...
Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) on Sunday defended a $200 billion funding request price tag for the U.S. conflict against Iran, calling it “America First.” “Well, it's a lot of money, but it's going right into rebuilding our stockpiles, our own munitions. It's in America's best interest that we reshore all of these defense manufacturing jobs...
President Trump told Republican lawmakers on Monday to not “worry about Easter” in order to stay in Washington to vote on a bill that ties Department of Homeland Security funding with voter identification requirements in the SAVE Act. Trump said that he’s “requesting that the Republican Senators do that immediately” and joked that lawmakers shouldn’t...
President Trump indicated on Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the first top administration official to back the U.S. military attacks against Iran. "Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up and you said let's do it because you can't let them have a nuclear weapon,” the president said at a...
A handful of journalists have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for allegedly seeking to use the Voice of America (VOA) to promote propaganda and censor news coming out of the White House. Two VOA journalists alongside two past reporters signed on to a Monday complaint in the U.S. District Court for D.C. with...
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Monday that mail-in ballots received after polls close on Election Day should be counted, posing major implications for November’s midterm elections. Mississippi defended its statute that allows a five-day grace period for ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward. More than a dozen states have similar laws. "We don't...
President Trump has placed a statue of the explorer Christopher Columbus, an increasingly controversial figure, near the White House. In a Sunday press release, the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations (COPOMIAO) said that the statue, a replica of one that originally stood in Baltimore, “now stands on the White House grounds in...
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R ), a GOP candidate for California’s governorship, seized more than a half million ballots from a November special election to approve redrawing congressional districts in a way that favored Democrats. Bianco said his probe was sparked by a local elections group that claims the results were off by 45,800 votes....
