That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, which uses my ongoing (but nearly finished) vacation in France as the occasion to explore how judicial appointments to France’s...
Former U.S. ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker warned European nations against criticizing President Trump’s military operations against Iran. “You might think that this is a huge folly and going to have terrible consequences, but you don't have to say it,” Volker said on the Friday episode of Politico’s "EU Confidential" podcast. “By saying it, you...
The U.S. military killed two “narco-terrorists” in a strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific on Friday, according to U.S. Southern Command (Southcom). The military unit announced the strike by posting a video of the boat exploding on the social platform X on Friday evening. Southcom commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan...
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) announced on Friday that he will call a special session to consider new voting maps after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a landmark redistricting case. Reeves said state legislators will return to Jackson, Miss., 21 days to redraw electoral maps after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Louisiana v....
For Washington, much of the allure of the White House Correspondents' Dinner is all the action outside the ballroom -- and fittingly for "Nerd Prom," that means deep policy sessions timed to coincide with the big event.
A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration went too far in trying to create its own deportation rules to speed up the process, ditching core protections Congress put in place to ensure people weren't sent to countries where they faced danger of persecution.
FBI Director Kash Patel hinted at evidence that backs up President Trump's claims of fraud in the 2020 election -- but quickly backed off revealing what he knows.
Iowa, a deep-red state for decades that voted for President Trump in three consecutive elections, may be on the verge of choosing a Democratic governor, flipping a Republican Senate seat and capturing two GOP House seats.
The Justice Department is dropping its criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, a move that opens the way for President Trump's nominee, Kevin Warsh, to head the central bank.
President Trump is authorizing a 90-day extension of his waiver to the Jones Act -- a longstanding shipping law -- to ease economic concerns around the war with Iran.
The Justice Department has accused the SPLC of infiltrating extremist groups with paid informants, adding to years of leadership upheaval at the nonprofit.
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are quickly becoming an economic and political force, accruing multi-billion dollar valuations and drawing support from key officials...
The Department of Justice on Friday directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand death penalty protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads as part of broader actions to strengthen the federal death penalty.
"Today, the Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals," the DOJ memo obtained by Fox News read.
"Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases," the memo read.
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