Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) warded off speculation about whether he pressured California Attorney General Rob Bonta to settle with Paramount Skydance over the company’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. “I didn’t pressure anybody,” Newsom told reporters on Wednesday. After Bonta, who has been openly against the merger for months, made the surprising move to meet […]
Washington Examiner executive editor Bob Cusack said he expects to see more Republicans breaking with President Donald Trump as midterm elections put more pressure on candidates. “I don’t think the White House appreciates it, and I do think that those type of statements are starting to come from members of Congress now,” Cusack said on […]
The Trump administration notified Congress on Tuesday it plans to accept thousands more of South African refugees into the United States than expected over the next 12 months. In a roughly $500 million effort, the U.S. will admit 17,500 mostly Afrikaner refugees throughout fiscal 2027, which starts on Oct. 1. The development boosts the previous […]
Shareholders of the New York Times are suing the newspaper’s parent company, alleging its board failed to properly oversee editorial standards and allowed biased coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. The State Board of Administration of Florida and the National Center for Public Policy Research filed the lawsuit in New York County Supreme Court on Wednesday. […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio raised concerns with his Russian counterpart that the war in Ukraine could easily spill over into other regions through hybrid attacks or even genuine misunderstandings. Speaking at a press conference at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, Rubio said that the threat of a broadening conflict is increasingly serious amid […]
Federal authorities in New York have opened an investigation into two longtime associates of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, according to a source familiar with the matter, bringing new scrutiny to the men who manage the late sex offender’s estate. Darren Indyke, Epstein’s longtime lawyer, and Richard Kahn, his longtime accountant, are under investigation, […]
Former Hollywood giant Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting his former assistant, Miriam Haley, more than six years after the disgraced producer was first convicted. Weinstein, 74, was sentenced Wednesday in New York for forcibly performing oral sex on Haley at his apartment in 2006. A jury convicted Weinstein […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Miami, Florida, in December. If Putin attends, it would be the first G20 Leaders’ Summit in person since he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and began the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. “We’ve invited […]
Washington Examiner White House reporter Christian Datoc said President Donald Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York was “rather subdued.” “Iran was the bulk of his speech,” Datoc said on C-Span’s Washington Journal. “He talked about the big decision he has coming up: should he annihilate the country or broker some type […]
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is trailing Councilwoman Nithya Raman by a significant margin with just weeks to go until the November election, according to a poll released Wednesday. The incumbent mayor of California’s largest city is trailing Raman, who is running to the left of Bass, by 11%, according to the poll by the UC […]
