Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s pick for intelligence chief, cleared a critical committee vote on Tuesday as Republicans banded together to send his nomination to the Senate floor. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters that Clayton advanced through his panel in a 9-8 vote, a margin that likely […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said on Tuesday that Republicans would welcome Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) into their caucus if the maverick lawmaker opted to leave the Democratic Party. “We would welcome him,” Thune said when asked if he’d talked to Fetterman about jumping ship. “I haven’t talked to him recently. I have had […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ambitions to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are unlikely to materialize, despite his claims. Mamdani is known as a harsh critic of Israel and has alleged that the Middle Eastern democracy is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, where Netanyahu is leading a war against Hamas terrorists embedded […]
A State Department report says American leftists are serving Cuba‘s goals for “urban guerilla warfare and terrorism” through a regime-linked activist group. The Venceremos Brigade spent decades building relations with elected Democrats, labor leaders, and activists by giving supporters propagandistic field trips to Cuba and weapons training, the State Department said Monday in a 100-page […]
The United States and China will reportedly hold talks over artificial intelligence in September to discuss the risks posed by their increasingly powerful frontier models and the tensions that have arisen as they compete for dominance in the AI race. The dates have not yet been finalized, but the meeting is expected sometime before Chinese […]
The White House Correspondents’ Association will give an award to the Secret Service officer who helped put a stop to the gunman who attempted to rush its annual dinner in April. Victor Gonzales, the Secret Service officer who stopped alleged gunman Cole Allen from barging into the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton […]
The View co-host Joy Behar argued that concerns about widespread voter fraud did not become a major issue in American politics until President Donald Trump began raising them after his loss in the 2020 presidential election. Behar dismissed the notion, noting that historical evidence does not support such claims. “For the 10,000 years that I’ve […]
Israel and the Lebanese government carried out their first experiment in the “pilot zone” Hezbollah disarmament program, one the United States hopes will ultimately accomplish its plan of disarming the designated terrorist group using the Lebanese government. The pilot zone program, laid out through several rounds of negotiations between Israel and the Lebanese government and […]
A federal appeals court will examine whether a federal law barring felons from possessing firearms exceeds the federal government’s authority under the commerce clause of the Constitution, taking up the case a month after Justice Clarence Thomas asked lower courts to explore the issue. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will […]
EXCLUSIVE — A watchdog group is urging acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte to review and potentially revoke the security clearances of former members of special counsel Jack Smith’s team over alleged lapses in handling classified information. The Center to Advance Security in America, or CASA, made the request in a letter sent Tuesday […]
