Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says if he's confirmed as secretary of Health and Human Services, he's committed to making "Americans once again the healthiest people on Earth."

SCHUMER TO REPUBLICANS: PLEASE DON’T DO TO US WHAT WE WERE GOING TO DO TO YOU. When the Democratic convention took place in August, with new nominee Kamala Harris rising in the polls, Democrats were giddy with a sense of impending victory. In Chicago for the convention, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) visited with party […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s win last week in Pennsylvania was always right in front of you if you were objectively listening to the concerns of the people and the data showing the most important, misread trend of all: The Republican Party had now become the party of work. In interview after interview, waitresses, welders, rank-and-file union […]

Like a modern von Hindenburg, President Joe Biden, bright white chompers beaming through a big smile, welcomed President-elect Donald Trump to the White House this week. Sure, the White House will tell you the president was merely respecting the traditions of a peaceful and smooth transition. Only a few weeks earlier, though, White House press […]

Illegal immigration is and always has been the central issue for Donald Trump‘s political career. Railing against illegal immigration was how Trump distinguished himself, for better and worse, in the 2016 Republican primaries. A central factor in Trump’s 2024 win was the massive inflow of migrants across the border caused by the Biden administration’s boneheaded […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is too left-wing to be a part of a Republican administration, even if that Republican is President-elect Donald Trump. Trump chose Kennedy to be the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. This has already earned plenty of backlash as Kennedy is, as David Harsanyi wrote last month, […]

President-elect Donald Trump does everything dramatically, often shockingly. So it is with his rapid-fire nominations for senior positions in his administration two months before he takes office. Several have been excellent, involving people who will bring in fresh thinking and greatly needed energy. Others, picked for vitally important posts, have been highly questionable at best, […]

American Airlines flight pilots were told to make an “expedited climb” to avoid crashing into Hawaii mountains on Wednesday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).  An air traffic controller instructed Flight 298, heading toward Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, to “perform an expedited climb after the crew did not make the assigned turn...

Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), two of the Senate’s most aggressive advocates for action on climate change, said Friday that the second Trump presidency will be a major setback for that action but expressed confidence there would still be opportunities for progress. Speaking on a press call from the COP29 climate summit...

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki is blaming Vice President Harris's loss to President-elect Trump in part on disinformation. “One of the things that’s changed even since I got involved in politics is just the rise of the percentage of people who get their information off of platforms that have no fact checking mechanism...