Around 8 people, including 4 children, were shot in Brooklyn's Coney Island during the Fourth of July festivities late Saturday night, according to media reports. PIX11, a Nexstar affiliate, reported that the New York Police Department (NYPD) responded to the shooting on 2929 West 31st Street at around 10:37 p.m. EDT, citing a statement from...
President Trump on Saturday said in his Fourth of July speech on the National Mall that he "wasn't treated that well" in a reference to his legal battles and felony conviction as it relates to the American right to equal justice under the law. The remarks came while the president talked about the Constitution, "the...
Former independent Sen. Joe Manchin (W.V.) blamed the Democratic Party’s “void in leadership” on internal splits over the rise of democratic socialist candidates in a new radio interview on Sunday morning. In a conversation with radio host John Catsimatidis on his show “Cats Roundtable,” Manchin cited democratic socialist candidates’ recent wins in states like New...
The growing wave of primary victories by democratic socialists is poised to pose a major challenge for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) if Democrats retake the House in the midterms. He will likely need to contend with an increasingly restive and energized left flank as he mounts a bid for the Speakership and attempts...
The Supreme Court split along its 6-3 ideological lines in nearly a quarter of the argued cases this term. The battles were big and small, from President Trump’s agenda to thorny disputes over the meaning of securities statutes. All but two came down in June, the final month of opinion season. Meanwhile, nearly half the cases...
It is no accident that the Supreme Court made a rare and possibly unprecedented decision to post Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook online at the same time on Monday. The first decision held that the president has the power to fire agency heads. The second created an exception for the Federal Reserve. Usually, […]