A federal judge shot down FBI Director Kash Patel's attempt to move his bureau's headquarters down the street to the Ronald Reagan Building, saying he broke laws governing site selection.
A poll released earlier this month claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had a wide lead over Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman in the city's mayoral race was bogus, according to the company that released it. Median Strategies on Monday said in its announcement about the mayoral race poll that it has stopped...
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday quipped that she "can't remember the last time" she saw someone wear President Trump's trademark MAGA hat. The former lawmaker shared a post on the social platform X showing a billboard that read "Trump Superstore," with an adjacent sign saying that it was "going out of business."...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday urged the Trump administration to tell Israel to protect Palestinians being attacked by "lawbreaking settlers" in the West Bank. "The ongoing siege of Palestinian homes in the West Bank by violent, lawbreaking settlers is unacceptable. Enough," Jeffries wrote on the social platform X. "The Trump administration must...
Priscilla's Law, a City Council proposal, would require e-mobility devices to be registered and carry a license plate, holding riders accountable for breaking traffic...
After the Turkish military fired on US-backed forces in Syria, Washington better do something about Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan — before any Americans get...
In less than a week, the odds that Pete Hegseth would be confirmed as secretary of defense dropped to the point that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was expected to replace him, and then rebounded to the point that his most outspoken skeptic, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), gave him a statement of confidence. The abrupt change […]
Republican senators have been far too quick to embrace the nomination of Pam Bondi, former attorney general of Florida, to be the U.S. attorney general. Bondi’s record is problematic. And that’s putting it mildly. In suggesting that Bondi may not merit confirmation (repeat: “may not,” not yet “does not”), the usual caveat applies. Namely, that […]
Fresh off of one of the biggest attempted injustices in recent American criminal history, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg cannot be trusted to lead the prosecution of the man who allegedly shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi Mangione has been arrested and charged with the murder of Thompson. Mangione was captured while in possession of […]
MATT GAETZ’S NEXT MOVE. Not all that long ago, on Oct. 3, 2023, then-Rep. Matt Gaetz succeeded in his audacious plan to lead a tiny group of Republicans, eight in all, working in an alliance with 208 Democrats, to topple Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Today, one year and two months later, Gaetz is […]
Russia launched its largest drone attack to date into Ukraine in late November. The week before that, President Vladimir Putin welcomed 10,000 North Korean troops into Russia and launched his largest missile attack in months. It’s clear this conflict is escalating as we near 1,000 days of war, and Washington is particularly eager to reverse […]
In Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, the courtesan Violetta sacrifices her own happiness for the sake of her beloved’s family, immortalizing her love through virtuous surrender. Sean Baker’s new film, Anora, attempts a contemporary riff on this old archetype, once again placing a young woman enmeshed in transactional romance at the heart of a doomed liaison. Yet where […]
