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The Ukraine ‘peace plan’ distracts from the real issue: why Russia’s desperate to keep fighting

Say what you will about President Trump’s methods, but his wish to end Russia’s war is genuine. The problem is Moscow doesn’t want peace in Ukraine, it wants Ukraine...

Hamas’ refusal to give up leaves peace plan dicey — and Gaza a tinderbox

With Hamas reportedly threatening to pull out of the Gaza cease-fire, it's anyone's guess...

Hamas is failing Trump’s cease-fire plan — and ‘the future’ of the Middle East is paying the price

EZZAT al-Reshq, a spokesman for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, denied reports Saturday that...

Texas National Guard troops ordered to return home sometime this week

Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that Texas National Guard troops who were deployed to Illinois in October have been ordered to return back to the Lone Star State before Thanksgiving.

How politicians have reacted to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation news

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's shocking announcement that she is leaving Congress in January is still reverberating in Washington and beyond. The news, delivered Friday in a lengthy statement, appears to have caught some people off guard — including President Trump, whose feud with the Georgia Republican and the beef's rippling effects played a role in...

Shutdowns, sanctions and saving Argentina: What could possibly go wrong?

Trump's optimism is commendable — his sense of realism may not be.

DoorDash offers emergency response to SNAP crisis

With food assistance benefits set to run out starting Saturday, DoorDash has launched what it calls an “emergency food response” to help people in need. In a Sunday release, the food delivery service said it would waive merchant fees for food banks, food pantries and community organizations with whom it partners, impacting an estimated 1...

Democrats are entirely to blame for the coming food stamp cuts

Democrats are blocking the reopening of the federal government, which would fully fund food stamps, in order to get their own demands met, putting millions of vulnerable Americans at risk.

Trump’s new citizenship test could let MAGA in and keep others out

If the test accomplishes anything, it likely will subtly favor Trump-friendly immigrants, and disfavor MAGA skeptics. 

Woman gets max sentence for murder of 3-year-old in Ohio store parking lot

A judge handed down a maximum sentence Monday morning to Bionca Ellis, the woman accused of killing a 3-year-old boy in an unprovoked attack in the parking lot of a local Giant Eagle last summer.

Israel matters more now than ever 

Israel matters because it stands as the lone democracy in an undemocratic region. Warts and all, it is worth defending.

The ‘No Kings’ protests are working. Keep it up.

Trump claimed that the events had been “very small” — while every person with a smart phone or television could see that he was lying. 

CNN boss told staff to scale back White House demolition coverage: Report

CNN is denying a recent report that its head Mark Thompson recently met with officials in President Trump's administration and afterward urged staff at the network to ease up on its coverage of the White House renovation project, which has torn down the East Wing. The report, published in the media-news outlet Status, cited people...

Largest government union calls for clean CR to end shutdown

The largest union representing federal workers is calling for an end to the government shutdown, as it hits Day 27. In a Monday release, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National President Everett Kelley said “it’s time” for Congress to immediately pass a clean continuing resolution (CR) to reopen the government.  “No half measures, and...

China claims bombers flew near Taiwan ahead of Trump-Xi meeting

A group of Chinese bombers conducting “confrontation drills” recently flew near Taiwan, Beijing’s state media claimed Sunday, just days ahead of a meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. Without giving a date or specific location for the war games, the Weibo account for Chinese state television’s military channel said “several J-10...

Ken Burns says ‘American Revolution’ doc could help US ‘with the divisions of today’

Ken Burns says his latest epic documentary shows America has been deeply divided since its earliest days, but that the story of the revolution, and the war itself, could "put the 'us' back in the U.S." “We were divided, really divided back then,” Burns told ITK of the time leading up to the Revolutionary War...

Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders take aim at Trump during Mamdani rally

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) directed their ire at President Trump on Sunday evening as they rallied in support of their progressive ally in New York City, Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. The high-profile figures addressed a large crowd of Mamdani supporters at a rally in Queens, where they both directly...

Indiana governor calls special session to redraw maps

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun (R) called a special session Monday to redraw the Hoosier State’s congressional maps, capping off months of intense lobbying from the White House to do mid-decade redistricting as Republicans look to hold onto their narrow majority in the House. “I am calling a special legislative session to protect Hoosiers from efforts...

If Democrats want to win, they need to start driving in the middle lane

To win national elections, Democrats should sound more like Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).  

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