Republicans are warning the White House that a critical surveillance authority is likely to lapse this week amid bipartisan backlash over President Donald Trump's pick to lead the nation's intelligence community.
A House Republican investigation concluded Monday that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison ignored years of warnings about as much as $9.3 billion in social services fraud, retaliated against whistleblowers and repeatedly misled the public about what they knew and when.
The New York Knicks are a lovable and amazing basketball team. They won Game 1 of the NBA Finals by coming back a 14-point deficit, and scoring the last 11 points of the game. They won Game 2 by a single point. It’s great viewing. It’s too bad the games go so late. The Knicks’ […]
Obituaries for the late Oregon Republican Sen. Bob Packwood this week all note that the liberal, pro-choice Republican resigned amid an ethics investigation that revealed years of sexually harassing women on Capitol Hill. It’s fitting that Packwood’s licentious and unfaithful behavior should hang over his reputation, because it was an abuse of power — he […]
If you want people to have faith in elections, you must conduct them in a transparent and timely fashion. It is the opposite of what California does, which is why the conspiracy theories about California’s elections cannot simply be dismissed as wild and unfounded. The Los Angeles mayoral race will be decided in a runoff […]
As global soccer fans prepare for the quadrennial World Cup tournament, hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada and starting on Thursday, FIFA President Gianni Infantino is riding high. Sadly, one major reason Infantino is riding high is that he has made this World Cup a triumph of FIFA greed. With staggered ticket sales […]
Officials in California have been warning the public for days that counting the state’s primary election votes, and thus determining which candidates have qualified for general election runoffs, is a process that could drag on for weeks. This isn’t terribly new or unusual in the Golden State; in 2024, for instance, one congressional race wasn’t […]
Susie Wiles, President Trump’s chief of staff, denied that she will soon leave the White House in response to the Daily Mail reporting on Friday that she is departing after the midterms. “After an accomplishment filled week by President Trump, I have the pleasure of reading a piece of Friday fiction, courtesy of the Daily...