There are not two sides equally responsible for the Charlie Kirk assassination. The single truth is that we are witnessing the inevitable result of a decade of Trump Derangement...
President Trump’s Vatican envoy delivered a special birthday gift to Pope Leo XIV ahead of the pontiff’s 70th celebration on Sunday. Brian Burch brought a cake from Portillo’s, a popular Chicago food chain, to commemorate the U.S.-born pope’s first birthday as head of the Catholic Church, according to Reuters. Burch told the pope, "Portillo's sent...
New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman on Friday said President Trump and his surrounding staff are “struggling” after the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “So many people around President Trump are very close to Charlie Kirk. President Trump was very close to Charlie Kirk. And President Trump faced two assassination attempts, one...
President Trump, in a Saturday interview, said he hopes the nation heals after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but blamed the “radical left” for being an obstacle in that healing. “I’d like to see it [the nation] heal,” the president said in a brief telephone interview with NBC News. “But we’re dealing with a...
A federal appeals court panel declined Louisiana’s invitation to gut a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) that has required the state to draw additional majority-minority districts, ruling Thursday that the argument is foreclosed by binding precedent. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision upholds a judge’s ruling that blocked Louisiana’s state...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday said he is not looking to privatize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or its air traffic controllers, an idea floated by President Trump during his first term. “I could spend my time the next three and a half years fighting over privatization. I'm not going to do that,” Duffy...
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday the Washington, D.C., man accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer was employed by the Department of Justice (DOJ). “I just learned that this defendant worked at the Department of Justice — NO LONGER. Not only is he FIRED, he has been charged with a...
A new bill in New York State legislature targets tax-exempt nonprofits that participate in political campaigns, creating a new state process to enforce the federal Johnson Amendment and allowing for lobbying for or against new laws so long as it doesn't impede a campaign.
President Trump has selected a Democrat to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) – a surprising move that passes over the panel’s one Republican member. Trump selected David Rosner, who was nominated to the commission by President Biden as its leader. Rosner is a former aide to then-Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.), who led the...
President Trump is preparing for his Friday summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin as more details emerge about the historic meeting. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday morning that more sanctions were among the "tools at his disposal” after the president threatened Russia with “consequences” if the peace process doesn’t...
79 percent of Americans now say immigration is a good thing for the country — a growing majority clearly believes U.S. policy should address immigration’s benefits, as well as its risks.
WhatsApp, the highly popular messaging service owned by Meta, accused the Russian government Wednesday of trying to block its service. “WhatsApp is private, end-to-end encrypted, and defies government attempts to violate people’s right to secure communication, which is why Russia is trying to block it from over 100 million Russian people,” the company said in...
The settlement it accepts now will not only define this chapter of its history, but it will also set the terms for how — and whether — higher education in America can resist political retaliation in the decades to come.
President Trump said Thursday he felt Russian President Vladimir Putin was prepared to make a deal to end the fighting in Ukraine on the eve of a summit between the two leaders, but he acknowledged there was a chance the meeting would not be successful. “I believe now he's convinced that he's going to make...
Instead of building resilience and coherence into our educational infrastructure, we’re increasingly allowing national support to be swayed by partisan distrust.
