Since he became the single biggest force in Republican politics nearly a decade ago, Donald Trump has figured prominently in U.S. Senate races, using his massive public platform and loyal base of support to shape which GOP incumbents run for reelection and which contenders get nominated.
The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it is distributing another $5.8 billion for water infrastructure projects around the country, paid for by one of its key legislative victories.
“Americans no longer have faith in their leaders,” John Burtka writes in his new book, Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill. And to help address this problem, Burtka has assembled excerpts from 20 works that he believes can revive the “mirrors for princes” literary tradition that once guided Western leaders for generations. In […]
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, said Tuesday it will update spam filters after it mistakenly suspended a new account created by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. “Our platform's defense mechanism against manipulation and spam mistakenly flagged @yulia_navalnaya as violating our rules,” X’s Safety account wrote in a post...
The legal team for advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is keeping an eye on former President Trump talking about their client after his apparent reference to her in a rally speech last weekend, Carroll's lawyer said Monday. "Everything he said about her [Carroll] over the last five years has been a lie and has been...
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), a surrogate for former President Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, called on to drop out of the race and join him in backing Trump. Asked by Fox News's Kayleigh McEnany, who once served as Trump's White House press secretary, why Haley was pledging to continue to Michigan following the South Carolina primary...
Russian defector Maksim Kuzminov, who flew a military helicopter to Ukraine and detailed his escape, has been found dead, Ukraine’s intelligence service said. Kuzminov’s body was found at the entrance to a residential complex in Villajoyosa, a town in Spain, Ukrainian spokesperson Andriy Yusov confirmed to The Washington Post. His body was found with multiple...
The White House announced that a major sanctions package against Russia will come on Friday after the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The package will aim to “hold Russia accountable for what happened to Mr. Navalny,” White House national security communications adviser John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday. Kirby said that the new sanctions...