Alina Habba, an attorney for former President Trump, went after the judge of a New York defamation case that ruled against the former president last month, arguing he was politically biased and leading the jury against her client. “It was like being in an epic ‘Twilight Zone’ where no rules were allowed, but for the...
Why do these candidates so frequently postpone their reckoning with reality for so long? While each has his or her own psychology, from my experience there are some understandable reasons.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) took a dig at former President Trump in a House floor speech on Tuesday, denying the former president’s claim that any executive could unilaterally close the southern border. Trump’s comments in a social media post Tuesday came after House Republicans shut down a bipartisan Senate border security bill, claiming that President...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will testify before the House Armed Services Committee at the end of the month over his decision to hide his recent cancer diagnosis and subsequent hospitalization from the country’s top officials. Austin has agreed to testify on Feb. 29, a House aide confirmed to The Hill late Tuesday. House Armed Services...
Former President Trump went after Nikki Haley after she lost the Nevada primary to “none of these candidates” Tuesday, making fun of the poor performance in a state where Haley did not campaign. Haley faced no opposition in the primary, sharing the ballot only with “none of these candidates” and a number of candidates who...
The Biden administration is tightening air pollution restrictions — a move that it says will save thousands of lives but is meeting pushback from industry which argues that it will harm the economy. The decision to tighten the restrictions on pollution from small particles, commonly referred to as soot, comes as a reversal of the...
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) argued a vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas would have “opened Pandora’s box" in a recent op-ed. Gallagher was one of three Republicans to vote against the bill, which ultimately caused it to fail. “[Mayorkas’s] performance has been a disgrace,” Gallagher wrote Tuesday in a Wall Street Journal op-ed,...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) plans to strip the bipartisan border security deal from the emergency defense spending bill, and bring a package funding the war in Ukraine, Israel, the Indo-Pacific region and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and Gaza to the Senate floor Wednesday. Senators expect the legislation to pass without the border security...
AG Patrick Morrisey, ex-state delegate Moore Capito, car dealer Chris Miller, and Secretary of State Mac Warner are running for the Republican nomination for governor of WV.