President Trump jumped into the impending collision between the House and Senate in their quest to pass his agenda, officially backing the lower chamber's plan in the process.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Wednesday with the leader of the United Arab Emirates, wrapping up an overseas trip that saw the highest-level outreach between the United States and Russia since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump's administration as the White House and its Department of Government Efficiency fire both new and career workers, tell agency leaders to plan for "large-scale reductions in force" and freeze trillions of dollars in federal grant funds.
The mess playing out in New York between Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams is entirely the work of corrupt and incompetent Democrats. At some point, this reality should be embarrassing for voters in New York who have chosen to empower the New York Democratic Party. In one corner is Adams, […]
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made public what has been known privately for a while now: The United Kingdom will deploy troops as part of a non-NATO peacekeeping force designed to preserve any U.S.-negotiated end to the war in Ukraine. His announcement is welcome but carries numerous complications. First, there is glaring opposition from […]
If you follow these things closely, you may have seen a clip of the chairman of the Munich Security Conference breaking down in tears, unable to speak any further while reflecting on Vice President JD Vance’s speech there. This breakdown is remarkable because the chairman, Christoph Heusgen, is not a minor apparatchik but a sophisticated […]
It was a good year for Argentina and its president, Javier Milei. In 2024, Argentina saw impressive economic progress as Milei slashed bureaucracy, eliminated regulations, closed superfluous departments, reduced the federal workforce, and instituted various monetary reforms. The results of the policies were impressive: monthly inflation, which peaked after Milei assumed office, fell from 25.5% to […]
Rotten Big Apple? Prosecutorial pile-on? Politics as blood sport? To legal observers in New York City, those were the questions haunting the pending criminal trial of Mayor Eric Adams. The Trump Justice Department ended speculation last week with a bombshell memo to the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the fabled and […]
President Trump on Wednesday declared New York “saved” after his administration announced it would rescind the Biden-era approval of a congestion pricing plan, “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED.” Trump posted to his Truth Social. "LONG LIVE THE KING!" The move pulls back a toll charging $9 for drivers...