Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) should quickly hold a full Senate confirmation vote for Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump‘s nominee to serve as United States ambassador to the United Nations. Waltz is a former Army special forces officer (Green Beret), congressman from Florida, and Trump’s former national security adviser. He left that latter position […]
Washington, D.C., is such a hyperpoliticized city that it is nearly impossible to govern. A Washington Post/Schar School poll found that 79% of the district’s residents oppose President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the city. The share of people who said they feel “very safe” in the city has risen from 26% in May to 39% now, with 78% of the […]
President Trump said he plans to patrol with the Metropolitan Police Department and National Guard troops around Washington, D.C., on Thursday night amid a federal crackdown on crime. “I’m going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police and with the military, of course,” Trump told conservative radio host Todd Starnes on his...
President Trump has been using the bully pulpit of his presidency to go after the Federal Reserve with a vengeance, and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) chief William Pulte has acted as his megaphone-in-chief throughout his pressure campaign. Pulte has lambasted Fed chair Powell in social media posts and television interviews, called for lower short-term...
A State Department official was fired for being on the wrong side of a debate over the Trump administration's policies toward relocating Palestinians in Gaza and Israel’s claims to the West Bank. Shahed Ghoreishi, who served as press officer for Israeli and Palestinian affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, says he was fired...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) redistricting effort raised $6.2 million since it started receiving donations a week ago, according to the governor’s team. The haul, which was first reported by The New York Times, included 200,000 donations as of Thursday afternoon. Newsom has become a leader in the Democratic Party’s fight against Republican redistricting efforts...
LIVE Video: Trump patrols DC streets with police and military President Trump left the White House to patrol alongside the National Guard and other law enforcement officials amid his efforts to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. He arrived at the U.S. Park Police station in Anacostia after driving through Navy Yard. Earlier in...
President Trump’s administration selected Joe Francescon, a former intelligence analyst and counterterrorism aide, as the next deputy director of the National Security Agency (NSA). "Joe has served our country with distinction at the highest levels of national security, from the Intelligence Community to the Pentagon and overseas,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Defense...
A federal judge on Thursday ruled Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to President Trump, has been unlawfully serving as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor. U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann explained that the Trump administration made Habba the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey through a "novel series of legal and personnel moves,"...
Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic has rolled out a tool to detect talk about nuclear weapons, the company said in a Thursday blog post. “Nuclear technology is inherently dual-use: the same physics principles that power nuclear reactors can be misused for weapons development. As AI models become more capable, we need to keep a close...