When Bill de Blasio defended Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s labeling of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "war criminal," he pointed to one metric above all: the number of...
President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator, Gabriel Perez, is out of a job after he reportedly made six figures betting on the contents of Trump’s speeches, which, of course, Perez could read before almost anyone else. When the news broke, Trump put Perez on unpaid leave immediately, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called his […]
It is extraordinary how few countries can build nuclear weapons. Eighty-one years have passed, almost to the day, since the bombing of Hiroshima. Yet, of the 195 states recognized by the United Nations, 186 are technologically unable to make warheads. Beyond the original five nuclear states — that is, the five countries that sit on […]
Who would have guessed that an Italian film made in 1957, starring one icon of that nation’s cinema (Marcello Mastroianni) and directed by another (Luchino Visconti), and based, of all things, on a short story by a long-dead Russian master (Fyodor Dostoevsky), would speak more urgently to contemporary audiences’ needs, fears, and hopes than any […]
Pro-Israel Democrat Sen. John Fetterman calls out pro-Palestine protesters for failing to press for Hamas to accept the peace deal President Donald Trump is working on
CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson Jr., once a rising Democratic star who saw his congressional career unravel in scandal, is returning to the political stage....
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut blocks President Donald Trump's plan to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, ruling the action unconstitutional.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called President Donald Trump's plan to deploy Texas National Guard troops to his state 'Trump's Invasion' in a social media post.
President Trump said the government shutdown will not hinder the pay raises he is seeking for every member of the U.S. military. Celebrating the Navy's 250th anniversary, Mr. Trump blamed the shutdown on Democrats, while assuring the crowd he plans to "get our service members every last penny" of their federal funding, including the pay raises he has promised to be budgeted next year.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Sunday that his administration will sue President Trump over the deployment of California National Guard troops to Oregon.
