A House task force's investigative findings revealed new information about the shooter who tried to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and unearthed new mysteries about the July 13 attack.

If last month's election wasn't painful enough for Florida Democrats, they're losing another state House seat after Rep. Susan Valdes announced that she's switching parties.

The mystery drones detected flying over New Jersey in recent weeks are "concerning" and the FBI does not know who is operating them, a senior bureau official told Congress on Tuesday.

Despite years of internal turmoil and changes, Open Society Foundations wants those in the human rights sector to know their movements will still receive support from the organization, its president Binaifer Nowrojee said Tuesday.

Republican senators have been far too quick to embrace the nomination of Pam Bondi, former attorney general of Florida, to be the U.S. attorney general. Bondi’s record is problematic. And that’s putting it mildly. In suggesting that Bondi may not merit confirmation (repeat: “may not,” not yet “does not”), the usual caveat applies. Namely, that […]

In less than a week, the odds that Pete Hegseth would be confirmed as secretary of defense dropped to the point that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was expected to replace him, and then rebounded to the point that his most outspoken skeptic, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), gave him a statement of confidence. The abrupt change […]

MATT GAETZ’S NEXT MOVE. Not all that long ago, on Oct. 3, 2023, then-Rep. Matt Gaetz succeeded in his audacious plan to lead a tiny group of Republicans, eight in all, working in an alliance with 208 Democrats, to topple Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Today, one year and two months later, Gaetz is […]

Fresh off of one of the biggest attempted injustices in recent American criminal history, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg cannot be trusted to lead the prosecution of the man who allegedly shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi Mangione has been arrested and charged with the murder of Thompson. Mangione was captured while in possession of […]

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), President-elect Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, met Tuesday with senators on Capitol Hill as she faces concerns from Republicans over her controversial positions sympathetic to U.S. adversaries like Russian President Vladimir Putin and now-deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Senator-elect Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), said he expected Gabbard’s nomination “to...

Almost half of Ukrainians now support President-elect Trump as he is set to take the Oval Office next month, according to a poll released on Tuesday.  The new national survey, commissioned by New Europe Center NGO, found that 44.6 percent of Ukrainians trust Trump, a far higher show of backing than in France, 16 percent,...