The Senate passed a defense bill Wednesday that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China's growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895 billion while also stripping coverage of transgender medical treatments for children of military members.
A panel of five judges in France is delivering verdicts on Thursday for more than four dozen men charged with aggravated rape and sexual assault on Gisele Pelicot in a historic case that has profoundly shaken the country over the past several months.
Lawmakers have a hugely consequential fiscal decision in the next couple of days: what to do about the plan to eliminate the $1.7 trillion PAYGO bill that just got snuck into the continuing resolution. Never heard of it? You are not alone. Theoretically, we should be hitting a huge sequester early next year that results […]
Former President Barack Obama refuses to go away. Unlike most of his predecessors, he has taken up residence in Washington and clings to power the way he once mocked Americans for clinging to their guns and Bibles. And he really clings to the cultural Marxist conflict theory that relies on race and sex, and not […]
President-elect Donald Trump is several weeks away from taking the oath of office, but his influence on the world stage is already making life difficult for embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The longtime premier of Canada has become a favorite punching bag for Trump, who has mocked Trudeau as the “governor” of the “great […]
President-elect Trump on Thursday celebrated the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) from the election interference case against him, arguing it should be the end of the prosecution over his efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. "The case has to be thrown out because it was started corruptly by an incompetent...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) dismissed President-elect Trump’s demand to increase the debt ceiling, saying he was a “hard pass” on the idea. “GOP extremists want House Democrats to raise the debt ceiling so that House Republicans can lower the amount of your Social Security check,” Jeffries posted to Bluesky. “Hard pass.” On Wednesday,...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday supported President-elect Trump’s pressure on lawmakers to eliminate the debt ceiling. “I agree with President-elect Trump that Congress should terminate the debt limit and never again govern by hostage taking,” Warren said in a post on social platform X. Trump said Thursday that he would back getting rid of...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday over his handling of a continuing resolution to keep the government open. Johnson's bill was faulted by a number of House Republicans as well as key figures in President-elect Trump's orbit for including too many provisions backed by Democrats. Johnson needed Democrats...