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Bus-fare evasion is just the start of Kathy Hochul’s looming MTA cash woes

Gov. Kathy Hochul will have to use her leverage to neutralize the mayor’s rhetoric — and to fix the upcoming $22.8 billion MTA budget for 2027, whose woes aren’t Mamdani’s fault, but hers.  

We’re about to find out how powerful progressives really are

Michigan is ground zero for the Democratic Party’s ideological war. Its marquee Senate race...

Blanche rescinds fund for Trump allies after senators threaten to block his attorney general bid

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Trump's $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general.

It is too late for the SAVE Act to save this year

Estimates vary, but even after President Donald Trump’s deportations, somewhere between 10 and 18 million illegal immigrants still live in the United States, and as New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s announcement last week shows, thousands of them are illegally voting in our elections. The Washington Examiner has editorialized in support of the Safeguard American Voter […]

Hegseth struggles to sell Senate on Iran war funding

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has yet to win any notable converts in the Trump administration's push for tens of billions of dollars to quickly inject into the Iran war, which has rapidly exhausted U.S. stockpiles and Pentagon coffers. The effort is further complicated by Republican senators losing confidence in Hegseth’s leadership of the U.S. military as the war with...

Sen Darline Graham drops campaign video on heels of brother’s funeral services amid tight primary timeline

Sen. Darline Graham, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, dropped a campaign video in her run for U.S. Senate with President Donald Trump's endorsement.

‘Worst of the Worst’ judges are sabotaging Trump’s immigration agenda, top DHS official says

DHS General Counsel James Percival names federal judges he says are engaging in judicial activism to block Trump's immigration and deportation agenda.

Mandela Barnes drops out of Wisconsin governor race

Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes dropped out of the crowded Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor on Thursday, as progressive state lawmaker Francesca Hong surges...

The Dam Begins to Crack on Interest Rates

At the next Federal Reserve meeting, it may break.

The DSA Envisions a ‘World Without Prisons,’ but Not One Without Camps

The unconstitutionality of their policy preferences doesn’t seem to bother them much. And why should it?

‘How Doggone Stupid Do You Think I Am?’

That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post

Trump moves to replace foreign truck drivers with military veterans, calls them ‘Freedom Haulers’

President Trump on Thursday launched the Freedom Hauler initiative for recruiting military veterans to become commercial truck drivers, a follow-up move to the administration's crackdown on illegal immigrant and non-English-speaking truckers.

Federal infectious disease surveillance is hampered by split oversight: Report

The government is poorly equipped to detect emerging infectious diseases across human and animal populations because federal surveillance efforts remain fragmented, according to a new report.

About a third of Democrats identify as democratic socialists: Poll

POLL: About a third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning Americans now describe themselves as democratic socialists.

Canadian citizen in Florida charged with illegally voting in 7 U.S. elections

A Canadian citizen managed to register to vote and cast ballots in seven U.S. elections, Florida prosecutors charged Thursday.

Seen, Heard & Whispered: Tuberville dumps GOP script, Presler’s voter hunt, KBJ’s love story

Tommy Tuberville had enough of his party's spin, tossing the GOP's election-bill talking points straight in the trash. Meanwhile, Scott Presler's volunteers are combing Pennsylvania's voter rolls for noncitizens, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tells Michelle Obama about the first date with her husband that she nearly walked out on.

Trump floats pulling Blanche’s nomination as Cornyn, Tillis hold out

President Trump said Wednesday he could withdraw his nomination of Todd Blanche to be attorney general and wait until next year to try again, after some Republican holdouts have departed the Senate.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins describes what it’s like reporting on Trump’s presidency

CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins told Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" that President Trump has little tolerance for reporters who challenge him directly.

Trump mobilizes terrorist court to try to deport Afghan mother tied to Election Day plot

The Trump administration has brought the first case in the U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court, seeking to oust an Afghan woman who prosecutors say supported her son's ISIS-inspired plot to kill people on Election Day in 2024.

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