Zohran Mamdani claimed victory in New York City by taking to the stage to herald a new era for NYC: “a shining city for all.” His speech led with invoking Eugene Debs, the most prominent American socialist politician of the last century, before anyone knew of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). […]
President Trump doubled down on his claim that a group of Democratic lawmakers with backgrounds in military or intelligence service have committed sedition by encouraging servicemembers to defy unlawful orders. In a pair of posts on his Truth Social platform late Saturday, the president said those lawmakers should be in jail, rather than defending themselves...
Once celebrated as “the world’s most deliberative body,” the U.S. Senate has sunk to new lows. Buried in the 394-page bill to end the federal government shutdown, one provision serves as an example of what Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has called “self-serving, self-dealing kind of stuff.” Easy to miss in the 24/7 news cycle preoccupied...
President Trump said Jack Nicklaus, the retired professional golfer, will oversee an overhaul of the golf courses at Joint Base Andrews. Trump told reporters he was tapping Nicklaus as the architect of the project on Saturday before boarding Marine One to head to Andrews, where he later took an aerial tour of the landscape. “We’re...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Sunday said he is pessimistic about the bipartisan push for a congressional stock trading ban becoming a reality, describing the issue as the "fox guarding the henhouse." "We're not going to pass anything," Burchett said during an appearance on John Catsimatidis’s radio show, “Cats Roundtable,” on WABC 770 AM. "Or...
“A major error in judgment”: That’s how disgraced Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers just described his “association” with the late sex fiend Jeffrey Epstein,...
The September jobs report, released a month and a half late thanks to the government shutdown, contained some positive news that the Trump administration has reason to brag about. But it also revealed weakness in the economy, further reflected in fresh polling that the White House should take as a warning. Defying economic predictions, employers […]
There is a very thin line between irresponsible rhetoric and mutiny, and six sitting members of Congress came perilously close to crossing it earlier this week. A mutiny doesn’t need to resemble the dramatic Mutiny on the Bounty; it can just as easily take the form of a video urging U.S. military personnel to defy […]
A new strain of the flu called subclade K could make for a particularly nasty flu season across the country, according to public health experts. The strain already caused Japan to declare an influenza epidemic. The United Kingdom's flu season started a month earlier than usual, a trend also playing out across the Atlantic. U.S....