President Trump is attempting to block the BBC's efforts to subpoena his family members for the channel's defense in his ongoing $10 million defamation lawsuit. In Saturday court filings, Trump's lawyers wrote that the British broadcaster's attempts to subpoena the president's children — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner — were “cynical” and a...
Negotiations between the United States and Canada fell through this weekend, causing the Trump administration to impose a 50 percent tariff on its northern neighbor. But Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney swiftly responded with his own retaliatory tariff on the U.S. The prime minister said during a Saturday press conference that Canada will “match Washington’s...
PITTSBURGH — The rise of the Democratic left in Pittsburgh did not happen overnight. It was built over years through patient organizing, disciplined recruiting, and a clear-eyed focus on the races that mattered most: low-turnout primaries where entrenched power was vulnerable. Mik Pappas’s 2017 race for Pennsylvania’s 31st Magisterial District judge offered an early hint […]
By nearly every metric, California is the worst-governed state in the country, as California Democrats continue to smother its residents with burdensome regulations and offer them nothing but incompetent governance. The 2026 state ratings from US News & World Report put California at a mediocre 35th overall ranking, highlighted by the Golden State ranking dead last in “opportunity,” which is meant […]
The emergence of the Democratic Socialists of America and their political victories, from New York City across the fruited plains of Michigan and Wisconsin, all the way to Colorado, strikes many as a new thing in U.S. politics. Previous movements have, in fact, increased, sometimes significantly, the size and scope of government. But it has […]
I called Dr. Anthony Fauci “the nation’s most dangerous sociopath” in March 2020. I’ve been known to get a few things wrong from time to time, but I was Chris Kyle-accurate when discussing the man who would become one of the great villains of modern America. Fauci was a test, and it is important to […]
There’s nothing inherently wrong with invoking the Fifth Amendment. The perception that anyone who pleads the Fifth to protect themselves from self-incrimination is only hiding guilt is wrong. Innocent people are often intimidated or tricked by those in power into implicating themselves. Others might get nervous under oath and worry about misspeaking under pressure. Former […]
Shortly before mourners filled Washington National Cathedral for the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday, President Donald Trump received Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. Graham, who died suddenly days after returning from his latest visit to Kyiv, had spent his final week negotiating a Russia sanctions package with the White House. By […]
