Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday began what he hopes will be a sustained Democratic offensive on housing costs, trying to put President Donald Trump on the defensive over one of voters’ top economic concerns. Speaking at the Center for American Progress, Schumer framed housing as the starting point of a broader Democratic […]
Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she gifted the Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump during a closed-door lunch the two leaders held on Thursday. “I presented the president of the United States the medal — the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado told reporters Thursday afternoon. “And I told him this, listen to this: […]
Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha said the U.S. military has “objectively” achieved what other countries couldn’t do “on their own” in the past year, crediting President Donald Trump. Concha made his remark in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed that declared the United States as “the sole superpower again,” with China following at […]
Iranian ethnic minorities exiled abroad are warning that efforts to overthrow the country’s theocratic Islamic regime will falter without swift international support, particularly from the United States. “We need help. The uprising and our people’s resistance cannot continue without comprehensive and sustained support,” Khalil Kani Sanani, the spokesman for the Kurdistan Freedom Party, or PAK, […]
The administration of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani sued food delivery app Motoclick on Thursday for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from its workers’ paychecks. The lawsuit, filed by New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, alleges Motoclick is engaging in deceptive business practices by charging employees a $10 fee for canceled orders […]
The previous right-hand woman to former New York Republican Gov. George Pataki announced on Thursday she is running for Connecticut governor. In announcing her campaign against Gov. Ned Lamont (D-CT), former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey slammed “Lefty Lamont’s” housing, taxation, and energy policies. “Today, I’m officially announcing my run for Governor of Connecticut. […]
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has thrown his weight behind a bill that would delay the implementation of hemp-banning language in an agriculture funding law set to go into effect in November. As part of the agriculture funding bill passed in November 2025 to end the government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed into law a provision […]
The United States and Taiwan on Thursday announced a comprehensive trade and investment agreement designed to trigger a revival of the U.S. semiconductor sector in the homeland. The deal, announced in a release by the Department of Commerce, establishes an economic partnership between the countries to strengthen domestic semiconductor supply chains through $500 billion in […]
President Donald Trump is keeping all options open in his deliberations on the future of Iran, but violent intervention to protect protesters could sour relations with allies in the Middle East and beyond. The president on Thursday walked back his promise that “help is on the way” for protesters, citing the regime’s decision not to […]
The Senate has now passed half of its annual spending bills after a Thursday afternoon vote to fund the Justice Department and several other federal agencies. The overwhelming majority of senators supported a three-bill package that also keeps the Interior, Commerce, and Energy departments operating past a Jan. 30 government funding deadline. Senators left town […]
