Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A 43-year-old community organizer with little management experience challenges the incumbent establishment Democratic mayor of a deep blue city. If you think this story is about socialist Katie Wilson defeating Mayor Bruce Harrell in Seattle last week, you are wrong. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who has […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into the U.S. Tennis Association Texas League over possible transgender participation in women's matches.
A federal judge ruled that Texas' law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
The House voted Tuesday night to reject a GOP-led effort to censure Del. Stacey Plaskett for "inappropriate coordination with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing" in 2019.
Some Democrats skeptical about their leadership’s hard-line stance against reopening the federal government privately acknowledge that they fear getting “hammered” by their liberal base if they vote for a Republican funding bill. Grassroots Democrats frustrated with the Trump administration have been demanding a fight, and on Saturday millions showed up at “No Kings” demonstrations across...
President Trump on Sunday called this weekend’s “No Kings” demonstrations against him a “joke” and rejected suggestions that he is acting like a monarch. “I'm not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That's all it is. I'm not a king at all,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One...
Ford has issued a recall notice for more than 291,000 vehicles over a potential issue with the rearview camera causing the image to be displayed improperly in certain lighting conditions. The recall notice said the issue with the 360-degree view camera system may reduce the driver’s view behind the car, increasing the risk of a...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Sunday that his state is targeting professors pushing "leftist ideologies" as he shared news of the latest college educator allegedly fired over their beliefs. In a post on social media, Abbott shared an Axios article about a University of Texas professor, Art Markman, who said the school’s leadership dismissed...
Actor Jon Cryer said on Sunday he was proud to be part of the “resistance cringe” after he was featured in the background of a news photograph from the “No Kings” protests this weekend. In a post on the social platform Bluesky, the “Two and a Half Men” actor highlighted the image, which was featured...
Airlines for America CEO Chris Sununu, a Republican and former governor of New Hampshire, said Sunday that air travelers should “pack your patience” as the government shutdown drags on. “People should still plan on having their flights. But we always say, pack your patience, give yourself a little more time,” Sununu told Chris Stirewalt on...
The Gaza ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel faced its first major test on Sunday, after the two sides exchanged fire and accused each other of violating the deal. Israel said it struck “dozens of Hamas terror targets” in response to the militant group’s “blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement this morning,” according to a...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said the “No Kings” protests against President Trump this weekend were a “stunt” created by Democrats because they needed “cover” amid the ongoing government shutdown. In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” Johnson suggested there was no need for Trump’s critics to join No Kings demonstrations this weekend,...
President Trump is racing to respond to a major escalation of the U.S.-China trade war, with the American supply of critical technology hanging in the balance. Trump administration officials announced plans this week to take a more active role in ensuring access to “rare earths” — minerals that are key components in several important technologies...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday accused President Trump and congressional Republicans of going “radio silent” during the government shutdown. Jeffries told host Jonathan Karl on ABC’s "This Week" that “we haven't heard anything from Donald Trump or the Republicans over the last few weeks. They have gone radio silent since” a Sept. 29...
Democrats criticized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for purchasing, during the government shutdown, two high-end private jets for the secretary and other top officials to use for their official travel. The U.S. Coast Guard entered into a contract with Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation on Friday to procure two G700 jets for more than $170 million,...
Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) said on Sunday that “everything is on” Republicans as the government shutdown drags on. “On the one hand, Democrats want credit for shutting the government down in order to get health insurance subsidies that you talk about that are obviously important and consequential, but on the other hand, they say it's...
The FBI is investigating a hunting stand that was found in the sight line of Air Force One on Friday. FBI Director Kash Patel told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister company, that the Secret Service “discovered what appeared to be an elevated hunting stand within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone” prior to...
