When asked if President Trump offered him the role of press secretary, a job that lies vacant, podcaster and sports commentator Stephen A. Smith responded, "No way in hell."

The Supreme Court said Friday it will take up a case involving President Trump's effective ban on asylum claims at the border -- perhaps the most critical tool in his unprecedented success in shutting off most illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico boundary.

Fifty-one newly elected House Democrats are calling on their leadership to include a stock trading ban in the chamber's rules package for next Congress.

New York was on firm legal footing when it issued commercial driver's licenses to migrants with iffy legal status even though they were valid beyond the period of time the federal government had authorized them to work, an appeals court ruled.

It seems that the best way to stop Israel from bombing hospitals in Gaza would be for Palestinian terrorists to stop using those hospitals as military facilities. And the people whining most about Israel’s strikes are the ones who should know that best. Israel earlier this week launched a targeted airstrike on a building at […]

The American Kickboxing Academy sits in San Jose, California, an hour south of my home in San Francisco. Khabib Nurmagomedov’s team has trained there for years. San Jose is also home to the largest Georgian community in the Bay Area. Remember that geography. It matters more than the Nurmagomedovs seem to think. If this feud […]

The danger for Washington is not merely what Mohsen Rezaei threatens, but the possibility that he mistakes the threats themselves for a strategy — and deterrence for a license to escalate. To examine that danger, one must trace the relationship between Rezaei’s ideological formation, his rhetoric of confrontation, and the risk of strategic miscalculation.” Rezaei […]

The midterm election results gave the minority party plenty of confidence heading into the new year. It wasn’t a trickle or a wave. It was a tsunami. It was a repudiation of the majority-party leadership in Washington and throughout the country. While Republicans lick their collective wounds, Democrats are celebrating. And one thing on everyone’s […]