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Kentucky governor calls on McConnell to prove he is fit to serve or resign: ‘Address the people’

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear demanded that Sen. Mitch McConnell prove his fitness to serve or resign after the 84-year-old's lengthy hospital stay.

Collins says State Department will reinstate funding for global humanitarian vaccine alliance

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Tuesday that the State Department is set to reinstate funding for a global humanitarian vaccine program after the Trump administration previously paused the program. “It is welcome news that following our recent outreach, the State Department has committed to contributing the full $600 million for GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance,” Collins...

Ex-Trump health official shocked by Fauci’s ‘unabashed narcissism’ from diaries

A former Trump health official on Tuesday slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci over his recently-released journal entries. “I'd like to see honesty and transparency and I'd like Tony to come clean with all the things that he's really been caught in contradictions,” Dr. Brett Giroir, a former assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health...

South Dakota governor fends off challenger in primary runoff 

Gov. Larry Rhoden (R) is projected to defeat businessman Toby Doeden in Tuesday's GOP primary runoff for South Dakota governor, according to Decision Desk HQ. Rhoden will now take on Democrat Dan Ahlers, a former state senator, in November. He is expected to hang on to the seat given the state’s reliably Republican leanings. Rhoden and...

‘Good luck George, have a great life!’ Trump commutes George Santos’ prison sentence

President Trump said Friday he was commuting the sentence of disgraced former Rep. George Santos of New York, who was serving more than seven years in federal prison for wire fraud and identity theft.

With no takers yet, White House sets meeting with colleges still weighing an agreement with Trump

The five universities that were still weighing President Donald Trump's higher-education compact were asked to join a White House call Friday to discuss the proposed deal, according to two people familiar with the matter. By late Friday afternoon, one of the schools - the University of Virginia - had already declined to sign the agreement.

President Donald Trump drops the F-bomb before the cameras. It wasn’t the first time

President Donald Trump talks plainly, bluntly, often even coarsely. But it's rare he drops an actual F-bomb as cameras are rolling.

From bills to berets: Notable moments from NYC’s contentious mayoral debate

New York City's mayoral candidates duked it out in their first general election debate Thursday night, with contenders Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa sparring over everything from the Israel-Hamas war to the city's education system.

News stories show that reporters may have left the Pentagon, but they haven’t stopped working

Two days after dozens of journalists left their desks at the Pentagon behind rather than agree to government-imposed rules on how they report about the U.S. military, it's apparent they haven't stopped working.

President Donald Trump commutes former New York GOP Rep. George Santos’ prison sentence

President Donald Trump announced Friday he had signed the commutation of disgraced former Rep. George Santos after he was sentenced to 87 months in prison.

Why Zohran Mamdani’s Anti-Israel Politics Matters

His message and governing attitudes, as the man in charge of the nation’s largest police force, have real consequences for the safety of Jewish...

The Trump Paradox in Action

Would a more couth, predictable, statesmanlike actor have secured the Mideast deal?

The Times Gives Mamdani the Obama Treatment

A reader of Emma Fitzsimmons’s article could be forgiven for assuming that her sources for this piece were drawn exclusively from the Mamdani campaign.

A Pointless Debate

‘I think the debate was interesting, but I . . . think it was meaningless.’

ICE director hits back at ‘political rhetoric,’ media ‘spin’ for imperiling officers and Americans

Anti-ICE protests and sanctuary jurisdictions are taking their toll, forcing the agency to divert its personnel and hindering its ability to reach higher arrest and deportation numbers, acting Director Todd Lyons told The Washington Times, putting the blame on political rhetoric.

Administration stops $11 billion in Army Corps of Engineers’ projects due to shutdown

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought announced Friday that $11 billion in Army Corps of Engineers' projects will be paused and potentially canceled because of the government shutdown.

Zelenskyy returns to White House, this time with a proposition

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday proposed the swap of Ukrainian drones for American Tomahawk missiles, yet President Trump signaled he's not ready to commit to providing Kyiv with the long-range weapons it says it needs.

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