BRADDOCK, Pennsylvania — Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who once served as mayor of the Mon Valley city home to Andrew Carnegie’s first steel plant, has been clear from the start of the government shutdown that he opposes it entirely. He hasn’t just talked about opposing the shutdown — he has acted. Over the shutdown’s 40 days, he […]
WHY DID DEMOCRATS FIGHT SO LONG — BEFORE CAVING? The government shutdown lasted 40 days before Senate Democrats abandoned the filibuster that closed offices, left workers without paychecks, threatened supplemental food benefits for millions, began a gradual shutdown of the commercial aviation system, and much more. The question is: Why did those Democrats hold out for […]
The World Health Organization is trying to keep President Donald Trump from withdrawing U.S. support, in the process proving that it has learned nothing from the COVID-19 pandemic, which it allowed to rage throughout the world in 2020. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently gave an interview that served as his sales pitch to the […]
If you are so unfortunate as to be on social media, you might have noticed that the alt-right is furious with women in the aftermath of the 2025 elections. The X algorithm’s favorite cesspools are riddled with anonymous accounts calling for “repealing the 19th Amendment” (women’s suffrage) and uttering 280-character imprecations against the “longhouse” (its […]
A mobile lounge hit a dock at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) Monday afternoon, sending 18 people to the hospital. Crystal Nosal, part of the Metro Washington Airports Authority’s (MWAA) media relations office, told The Hill that at roughly 4:30 p.m., the lounge, while taking passengers to Concourse D, struck a dock at an angle...
President Trump criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y. ) handling of the government shutdown in an interview on Monday, saying Republicans bested him in the process. "I think he made a mistake in going too far,” Trump told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham. “He thought he could break the Republicans and the Republicans broke him."...
Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.), who nearly a decade ago served as Hillary Clinton’s running mate when she lost the presidency to Donald Trump, was the eighth Democratic senator to back a centrist deal the Senate is set to approve Monday that is likely to soon end the longest shutdown in American history. Kaine’s top priority was to...
President Trump on Monday kept a historic meeting with Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa behind closed doors, an unusual move for a president who frequently opens up the Oval Office to cameras and reporters when meeting with foreign leaders. It was the first visit by a Syrian leader to the White House, but al-Sharaa did not...
Thanksgiving dinner in the Shaheen household might be a little awkward. Stefany Shaheen, a Democratic candidate for Congress from New Hampshire, said she “cannot support” a deal to end the government shutdown on which the Senate is voting Monday evening. Complicating things is the fact that her mother, Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), supports the...