The Supreme Court is meeting in private Friday with a key issue on its agenda - President Donald Trump 's birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
For weeks, a Tennessee special election was flying under the radar in a heavily Republican congressional district. But now funding from President Donald Trump's allies and an appearance by former Vice President Kamala Harris have turned the Dec. 2 contest into a marquee political battle with potential consequences for next year's midterms.
The House voted to adopt a resolution denouncing socialism on Friday, the day New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, is meeting with President Trump at the White House.
President Donald Trump has called New York City's Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani a "100% Communist Lunatic" and a "total nut job." Mamdani has called Trump's administration "authoritarian" and described himself as "Donald Trump's worst nightmare."
Hundreds of air traffic controllers and technicians who had perfect attendance during the government shutdown will be awarded $10,000 for their "patriotic work to ensure the safety of the skies," the Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday.
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President Donald Trump has intensified U.S. military activity around Venezuela in recent months, from counter-narcotics operations to a broader campaign of coercive pressure against dictator Nicolás Maduro’s government. Since early September, U.S. forces have conducted strikes on roughly 20 alleged drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s most […]
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) was nearly elected to be the country’s next vice president. Lost in that is that his state has become the fraud capital of the United States. Minnesota’s Department of Health and Human Services is moving to scrap the “Housing Stabilization Services” program, which is funded by Medicaid and the state’s taxpayers, due to widespread […]
Scott Jennings has a gift. Actually, he has many. But none is more apparent to the general public than the one he displays in his role as CNN‘s senior political commentator. There, he unfailingly articulates President Donald Trump‘s appeal to an audience that is prone to believe there is none. This ability comes from a […]