The Senate majority leader race is on. Or is it? Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is answering the calls of his Democratic colleagues who want new leadership when they take back control of Congress next year and is offering himself as an alternative to Charles E. Schumer.
At about 10:04 p.m. on Nov. 3, the Associated Press called the Texas Senate race for James Talarico. Roughly 16 minutes later, Ken Paxton conceded. The Republican attorney general had spent the better part of a year, in one of the most expensive Senate contests in American history, trying to hold a seat in a […]
Voters across the country rebuked President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, producing a powerful blue wave in the first major electoral test since his sweeping victory in 2024. The results were expected in battleground states, but not in Texas, a longtime bastion of conservatism that has maintained a […]
“We have a bunch of gangsters, thugs, punks, thieves, and drug smugglers running the country.” These words were spoken to me 36 years ago by Richard Morse, owner of the Hotel Oloffson, as we looked down from a balcony at Port-au-Prince, the fetid capital of Haiti. The Oloffson, built in the 19th century as a […]
Only in the United States can a company founded just six years ago become central to the efforts to maintain superiority over China or any other country in the broad spectrum of artificial intelligence. Moreover, only in the U.S. do the deep pools of risk capital exist that enable a new company to reach a […]
Renee Good, the 37-year-old mother killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis earlier this month, was shot three times and grazed by a fourth bullet, according to results from a private autopsy. The law firm representing Good’s family members released the autopsy results on Wednesday. A representative from Romanucci & Blandin...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Tuesday detained a 5-year-old boy and his father in Minnesota after the boy came home from preschool, according to several media reports. Columbia Heights Public School District Superintendent Zena Stenvik told Minnesota Public Radio that Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were approached by masked federal agents in...
The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) newest immigration crackdown, “Operation Catch of the Day,” is underway in Maine. “We have launched Operation Catch of the Day to target the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in the state,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a Wednesday statement. “On the first day of operations,...
A Cuban immigrant's death in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Texas has been ruled a homicide, according to The Associated Press. ICE said in a press release earlier this month that on Jan. 3, a Cuban migrant named Geraldo Lunas Campos had died while in custody. The agency said Lunas Campos,...
President Trump departed Davos, Switzerland, where he met with world leaders and unveiled his new Board of Peace in Gaza at the annual World Economic Forum. Earlier Thursday, the president participated in a signing ceremony for his peace board initiative alongside a handful of world leaders. No major European allies attended the Thursday signing ceremony,...
Challenges to President Trump’s tariff regime could soon be at the center of business in the House, as Democrats and tariff-skeptical GOP members will have the opportunity to call snap votes that set up a loyalty test for Republicans. House Republican leadership this week declined to extend past Jan. 31 a prohibition on calling snap...
Vice President Vance is in Ohio on Thursday morning to sell President Trump’s economic agenda, as the 2026 midterm elections inch closer. In his visit to Toledo, Ohio, Vance is expected to tour an industrial shipping facility and deliver remarks on how the Trump administration's policies impact the Midwest. Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy...
President Trump and his administration rolled out the Board of Peace initiative for Gaza in Davos on Thursday featuring leaders of over 20 countries that notably did not include major European Union allies. Countries that have agreed to join the board include Argentina, Belarus, Morocco, Vietnam, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kosovo, Hungary, Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan,...
Millions of Americans from New Mexico to the Carolinas are bracing for a potentially catastrophic ice storm that could crush trees and power lines and knock out power for days, while many northern states all the way to New England could see enough snow to make travel nearly impossible, forecasters say.
President Trump said the Republican Party has “a good bench” of potential candidates to run for the White House in 2028, but he declined to name an early favorite to run as his successor. In an interview that aired Wednesday evening on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” Trump was asked whether he thinks there’s a likely GOP candidate who could carry on his...
