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Miranda Devine: New FBI chat logs reveal extraordinary ‘gag order’ senior leadership used to shutdown any Hunter Biden laptop discussion

The conversations, withheld by the FBI under Director Chris Wray, show that senior leadership issued an internal “gag order” on the laptop. 

Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs on Canada in bid to roll back presidential emergency powers

Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.

Why voter ID won in Wisconsin

Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win […]

Booker says he hoped floor speech would be something that ‘would unify our caucus’

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday he hoped to unify the Democratic party with his marathon floor speech this week after the caucus grew bitterly divided in debates over the continuing resolution last month. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Booker described those tense moments behind closed doors last month,...

Vance, Harris seen as top 2028 White House contenders

Vice President JD Vance and former Vice President Kamala Harris are seen as top contenders for the White House in 2028 by their respective parties, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The poll, released Wednesday, asks Democrats and Republicans whom they would consider supporting in the 2028 presidential election and asks which person would be...

Small business optimism falls at fastest pace in 5 years: NFIB

Small business optimism is faltering as stock markets are dropping and a range of macroeconomic and policy uncertainties are weighing on the business outlook. The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) optimism index, which measures sentiment among small business owners, fell by 2.1 points in February. The group’s uncertainty index also registered its second-highest reading...

GOP senator knocks ‘false’ Tucker Carlson allegation he’s fighting against JFK assassination files release

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is denying an accusation from conservative pundit Tucker Carlson that he worked to block the release of sensitive government information related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. Carlson, during a conversation with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, alleged Cotton tried to stand in the way of a one of...

Trump must tread lightly with Arab leaders in peace talks 

If the primary goal of the Trump administration is to quickly address issues in the Middle East and prevent further wars and instability, placing additional pressure on Arab countries might actually backfire.  

Misguided anti-racism campaign cancels college Sondheim production

Theater is a potent medium for showing us the truth of what people do to one another.

Bernie Sanders: Musk calling Mark Kelly a ‘traitor’ is ‘beyond the pale’

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the country is getting “sick and tired” of tech billionaire Elon Musk and slammed Musk’s accusation that Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is a traitor for visiting Ukraine as “beyond the pale.” “It’s disgusting,” Sanders said of Musk's criticism of Kelly, a decorated former naval aviator. “Kelly is a military guy...

A minerals agreement with Ukraine would be a bad deal for America 

Giving Americans an “economic upside in the future of Ukraine” will never be worth the security downsides.

Trump says he’s buying ‘brand new’ Tesla to support Musk

President Trump said he would be buying a “brand new” Tesla to support his senior adviser Elon Musk, as the stock market shows shares of the electric car company tumbling. “To Republicans, Conservatives, and all great Americans, Elon Musk is ‘putting it on the line’ in order to help our Nation, and he is doing...

‘Very scary’: Scholars in US and abroad stuck amid State Department funding freeze

The funding freeze has sparked panic among thousands of scholars who area stranded outside their home countries without clarity on the future of their programs or the money needed to support themselves.

Project 2025: You can’t say Trump didn’t warn us

Project 2025, a 922-page blueprint for a second Trump administration prepared by the Heritage Foundation, has been implemented by Trump's administration, including firing 30,000 federal employees, shutting down the Department of Education, gutting the Environmental Protection Agency, and imposing tariffs on major trading partners.

US-Canada products are 99 percent tariff-free: Canadian ambassador to US

Canada's ambassador to the United States said 99% of products traded between the two nations are tariff-free.

Comparing Putin’s military aggressions with Hitler’s 

Russian President Vladimir Putin's desire to reclaim the territory of the former USSR and his aggressive military buildup and propaganda efforts are similar to those of Hitler. The push for a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia is seen by some as a way to allow Putin to regain control of the territory he has invaded

Morning Report — Trump stirs economic uncertainty

In today’s issue: President Trump marked 50 days in office Monday confronting a grim report card that raised new doubts about his tariff policy and his theory that chaos improves leadership leverage. Financial markets, reflecting investors’ fears, sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down nearly 900 points Monday while the Nasdaq composite suffered its worst...

Trump’s approval dips amid concerns over economy: Poll

President Trump’s approval rating has dropped a few points since he first took office, with voters increasingly expressing concerns over the state of the economy, according to a new poll.  The Emerson College Polling survey released Tuesday, just after the 50-day mark of Trump’s second term in office, found 47 percent of voters approve of...

House Rules Committee advances GOP’s stopgap ahead of shutdown deadline

The House Rules Committee voted Monday night to advance the GOP's bill to avert a government shutdown, dispatching the measure to the full chamber for consideration ahead of Friday's deadline. The panel voted 9-3 to adopt the rule, which governs debate on the legislation. The successful vote sends the measure to the House floor for...

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