Senate Democrats have reportedly ended negotiations with Senate Republicans over border security because the Republicans, according to Democrats, are asking for policies that are too extreme.

President Joe Biden boldly tried to sell people on his economic plan as the core of his reelection campaign even though people hate the state of the economy under Biden. As you might have expected, that has backfired to the point that Democrats, including Biden, are sprinting away from the term.

THE ANTI-TRUMP ALARM GOES OFF. Around this time in 2015, some in the political commentary class had a collective realization: Donald Trump could win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. A freakout of sorts ensued, although many remained confident that Hillary Clinton would defeat Trump in the 2016 general election. An even larger freakout occurred on the night of Nov. 8, 2016.

Bureaucrats in Washington state are banning gas furnaces in new homes and businesses. They won’t cart off the one you already have, but they are making it illegal to install them in new homes.

A former U.S. diplomat is accused of conducting a more than 40-year secretive campaign to spy on behalf of the Cuban government. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday it was charging Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of working as a covert agent with Cuba's General Directorate of Intelligence since at least 1981 — the year he...

Former President Trump attacked the Drudge Report in a post on Sunday, suggesting the conservative news aggregator was on the decline because its coverage of Trump had soured.   “Something happened, but when Drudge went anti-Trump, the site fell apart, very much like Ron DeSanctus,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “It happened instantly,...

Florida man versus Florida man in a football showdown? Former President Trump is blaming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his bitter rival in the battle for the GOP presidential nomination, for the College Football Playoff committee’s decision to exclude Florida State's football team from the playoffs despite its undefeated season. "Florida State was treated very badly...

At this year’s United Nations climate conference (COP28), the summit’s president Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber — who also leads the United Arab Emirates’s national oil company — sparked controversy over the weekend by attacking the science on climate change. “There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s...

Supreme Court justices appeared divided over Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy deal Monday, questioning whether it can immunize the Sackler family from civil lawsuits for their role in the opioid crisis.  Described by experts as among the most important corporate bankruptcy cases in decades, the dispute will dictate the fate of the years-in-the-making settlement and more broadly...

HBO is reportedly set to produce a movie about Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who was just expelled from Congress after a damning ethics report. Deadline reported on Monday that the network has optioned the rights to author Mark Chiusano’s new book on the disgraced politician. Chiusano’s book, "The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and...