President Donald Trump has pushed the boundaries of presidential power and influence throughout his second administration, but his pressure campaigns on Republican-led states represent his latest break from conservative orthodoxy. With Texas delivering a political win for Trump this week regarding his desire for Republican-led states to redistrict their congressional maps mid-decade to provide the […]
President Donald Trump called for former pitcher Roger Clemens to be inducted into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Trump made the remarks on his Truth Social account on Sunday, a day after he said he played golf with the MLB legend. “I played Golf yesterday with the Great Roger Clemens and his son, Kacy,” […]
Vice President JD Vance said Russian President Vladimir Putin will not install a “puppet regime” in Ukraine after the war between Russia and Ukraine has concluded. The vice president made the remarks in an interview on Sunday with Kristen Welker on NBC News’s Meet the Press while discussing the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s meeting […]
President Donald Trump hinted at an investigation into former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over the 2013 “Bridgegate” scandal. Trump tuned into Christie’s Sunday show appearance on ABC, after which he raged against his noted critic and resurfaced the decade-old scandal that saw Christie’s chief of staff and a Port Authority official close off lanes […]
President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to end the “blue slip” tradition in the upper chamber in order to get the rest of his judicial nominations and attorneys confirmed. Trump trashed the “blue slip,” which is a practice that allows lawmakers from the minority party to veto nominees for U.S. attorney […]
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed on Sunday that mortgage fraud is President Donald Trump‘s “new weapon,” as a Department of Justice investigation into the California senator is already well underway. Since early August, Trump’s special attorney Ed Martin has been leading the investigation into Schiff over allegations that he listed more than one property as […]
An online petition is seeking “fair sentencing” for an illegal immigrant accused of causing a fatal highway crash in Florida, saying the charges against him don’t align with “the circumstances of the incident.” On Aug. 12, Harjinder Singh, a truck driver, made an illegal U-turn in a semi-truck on Florida’s Turnpike, killing three people in […]
There is no evidence of an active shooter at the University of South Carolina, after multiple alerts about a shooter in the school’s main library were sent out earlier Sunday evening. “We received an unconfirmed report of an active shooter at the Thomas Cooper library,” a university spokesperson told a CNN affiliate. “At this point, […]
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed on Sunday that anyone critical of President Donald Trump can expect to face the “full weight” of the federal government, citing the FBI’s recent raid on his former national security adviser, John Bolton. FBI agents conducted an operation at Bolton’s Maryland residence on Friday morning as part of a high-profile […]
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Sunday following the Salvadoran national’s release from criminal custody, his office announced. On Friday, Abrego Garcia, who is awaiting trial on human smuggling charges in Tennessee, was granted a release from custody by U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes. He has since returned to Maryland, where […]
