President Trump threatened Sunday to hit Iran with the kind of force it "has never seen before" as Iran retaliated against joint, U.S.-Israel military strikes that killed its supreme leader.
A heated U.S. Senate race in Texas entered its final stretch on Sunday with candidates on both sides of the aisle making final pitches to voters ahead of Tuesday's primary, the nation's first big contest of the 2026 midterm elections.
Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is standing firm in his support for President Trump's decision to approve a military operation against Iran, but said his support is "not limitless."
BRADDOCK, Pennsylvania — Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who once served as mayor of the Mon Valley city home to Andrew Carnegie’s first steel plant, has been clear from the start of the government shutdown that he opposes it entirely. He hasn’t just talked about opposing the shutdown — he has acted. Over the shutdown’s 40 days, he […]
President Donald Trump held an apparently successful meeting with President Ahmed al Sharaa of Syria at the White House on Monday. Sharaa’s former status as a dedicated jihadist makes him a highly unlikely American partner. Still, Trump has a fragile but nevertheless substantial opportunity to help shape Sharaa in favor of all Syrians and Middle […]
WHY DID DEMOCRATS FIGHT SO LONG — BEFORE CAVING? The government shutdown lasted 40 days before Senate Democrats abandoned the filibuster that closed offices, left workers without paychecks, threatened supplemental food benefits for millions, began a gradual shutdown of the commercial aviation system, and much more. The question is: Why did those Democrats hold out for […]
If you are so unfortunate as to be on social media, you might have noticed that the alt-right is furious with women in the aftermath of the 2025 elections. The X algorithm’s favorite cesspools are riddled with anonymous accounts calling for “repealing the 19th Amendment” (women’s suffrage) and uttering 280-character imprecations against the “longhouse” (its […]
The World Health Organization is trying to keep President Donald Trump from withdrawing U.S. support, in the process proving that it has learned nothing from the COVID-19 pandemic, which it allowed to rage throughout the world in 2020. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently gave an interview that served as his sales pitch to the […]
Don’t expect 1st Deputy Mayor-designate Dean Fuleihan to rein in an ounce of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani worst urges: He imposed no such restraint he when...
