That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, which uses my ongoing (but nearly finished) vacation in France as the occasion to explore how judicial appointments to France’s...
Former U.S. ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker warned European nations against criticizing President Trump’s military operations against Iran. “You might think that this is a huge folly and going to have terrible consequences, but you don't have to say it,” Volker said on the Friday episode of Politico’s "EU Confidential" podcast. “By saying it, you...
The U.S. military killed two “narco-terrorists” in a strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific on Friday, according to U.S. Southern Command (Southcom). The military unit announced the strike by posting a video of the boat exploding on the social platform X on Friday evening. Southcom commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan...
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) announced on Friday that he will call a special session to consider new voting maps after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a landmark redistricting case. Reeves said state legislators will return to Jackson, Miss., 21 days to redraw electoral maps after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Louisiana v....
A GOP-led redistricting push in Utah failed to make the ballot after opposition groups campaigned for voters to remove their signatures from a petition required to ensure the measure was included in the general election later this year. The Beehive State requires support for legislation with 141,000 signatures from 8 percent of registered voters in...
President Trump announced Thursday that he is extending the Pentagon’s pause on striking Iranian energy infrastructure to April at the request of the Iranian government. “As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026,...
House Reps. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), co-sponsors of the Alzheimer's Screening and Prevention (ASAP) Act, said Thursday that proactively addressing Alzheimer's disease is "too expensive" of an issue for Congress to ignore. Appearing at The Hill's "Getting a Diagnosis ASAP: Progress in Early Alzheimer’s Detection" event on Thursday, the two congressmen discussed...
Concerns about energy costs are slightly up amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict against Iran, according to a new poll. In the Gallup poll released Thursday, 32 percent of respondents said various issues surrounding the economy are “the most important problem facing this country today,” with 15 percent labeling the “economy in general” as the most important...
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is poised to unveil legislation that combines funding for the Homeland Security Department (DHS) with tougher rules for federal immigration enforcement officers. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), the leaders of the Problem Solvers Caucus, are putting the final touches on a proposal that would reopen DHS,...
There's a real problem on X right now: foreign accounts that portray themselves as American, with names like Pro Western Civilization or Proud Heritage American or White MAGA Patriot.
A federal judge Thursday ordered the Trump administration to preserve all records after the Justice Department said it made a “factual error” in a case challenging the ability to arrest migrants as they appeared for immigration court hearings. Justice Department attorneys on Wednesday informed U.S. District Court Judge Kevin Castel that they had been given...
White House border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers will continue wearing masks despite Democrats' push to see face coverings removed during immigration operations. “You want us to give up masks, well, you know what? No we’re not,” Homan said during a Wednesday conversation on the “Cats & Cosby”...
President Trump held his 11th Cabinet meeting of his second term Thursday, with the war in Iran dominating most of the discussion. Unlike past Cabinet meetings, Thursday’s lasted just more than an hour and a half, with only a few secretaries taking time to speak instead of every official in the room. The meeting was...
Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated an amendment sponsored by Sen. Jon Husted (R), Ohio’s former secretary of state, to require voters to show photo ID when casting ballots in person or voting by mail, despite previous statements by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) that Democrats support photo ID requirements for elections. The Senate voted...
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said Wednesday that President Trump has heavily pushed China to help with the Strait of Hormuz reopening amid the U.S. conflict against Iran. “Apparently, now, their primary goal is reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which, let’s be clear, was open before Trump started this war of choice. So, the reality is,...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday dismissed the idea that he and longtime ally former Vice President Kamala Harris do not like each other, calling it "preposterous." Newsom praised Harris in an interview with Axios's Alex Thompson, who asked the governor, "Why don't you guys like each other?" "A preposterous premise of a question,"...
Sen. Bernie Sanders recently conducted a policy interview with Claude, an AI assistant developed by Anthropic, which demonstrated the potential of AI to improve the quality of questions asked and the difficulty of evading them in congressional hearings.
