Iranians went to the polls Friday to elect a new president, just over two months after President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash. Four candidates remained serious contenders heading into election day: Iran’s Parliament Speaker and former military commander Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Former top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, former justice minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi and...
The Biden administration is expanding a humanitarian program to allow an estimated 309,000 Haitians in the United States to stay and legally work. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday announced he is renewing and redesignating Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Under TPS, foreign nationals from a designated country are protected from deportation and...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced the death of Rhonda Massie, his wife of over 35 years, on Friday morning. “Yesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went...
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan offered a scathing dissent Friday as her conservative colleagues transferred the power of federal agencies to the courts in a major decision overturning the Chevron deference. In overruling that doctrine, Kagan argued that the “the majority turns itself into the country’s administrative czar.” Joined by fellow liberals Sonia Sotomayor and...
Former President Trump won Thursday night's debate over President Biden by a 2-1 margin, according to a newly released survey. Forty-three percent of respondents in a YouGov poll conducted Friday morning said they thought Trump the debate, compared to 22 percent who said they thought Biden won. Another 35 percent were unsure. The poll echoed...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized the recent debate between President Biden and former President Trump, stating that the two political parties produced two men who bickered over irrelevant issues and that the first presidential debate could be a momentum-building opportunity for his third-party bid.
Reading the cold transcript, we get a very different picture of Biden. Substantively, he ably and forcefully made the case that that Trump should not be allowed back in the Oval Office.
The House on Friday approved a trio of government funding bills that the White House has already threatened to veto if they land on President Biden’s desk, setting the stage for a bitter spending fight later this year. The three measures — funding foreign operations and the departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security — have virtually no...
Television news pundit Geraldo Rivera said he felt bad for President Biden after watching him debate former President Trump on Thursday night. "It was so dramatic, it was jaw dropping and I felt so badly for our president. I wanted to hug him," Rivera said during NewsNation's coverage of Thursday night's debate. "Why didn't someone...