A Wisconsin jury found Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan guilty on a federal charge of obstructing a proceeding before a U.S. department or agency on Thursday. Dugan was accused of helping an illegal immigrant, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in April 2025, while he was in her courthouse for battery charges. She […]
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and President Donald Trump do not agree on much. In fact, they hate each other. But Pelosi, 85, and Trump, 79, do share one professional characteristic. They each regained jobs at the pinnacles of government power after spells in the political wilderness. Trump is nearly a year into his […]
The U.S. announced two more strikes on vessels suspected of transporting drugs on Thursday. It marks the 27th and 28th boats targeted by the military, which were believed to have been transporting illegal narcotics in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Southern Command announced the strikes in a post on X on Thursday night. Five more suspected […]
Republicans have good reason to worry about their prospects in the 2026 midterm elections after a string of recent defeats. GOP losses in the recent New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, Miami’s mayoral election, and the contest for a previously Republican-held Georgia state House seat that went Democratic made for tough election nights as 2025 […]
After 15 years of Republican railing against the Affordable Care Act, GOP lawmakers have it on the ropes. But four House Republicans are trying to help prop it up. The Republican quartet joined Democrats Dec. 17 to force a House vote on a straight three-year extension of the enhanced Obamacare tax credits, which will expire […]
There’s a small and unremarkable park in a suburb just south of Dublin‘s city center, surrounded by modest semidetached homes and featuring a basketball court and a soccer pitch. A proposal to rename Chaim Herzog Park in Rathgar has become the nexus of a long-standing spat between Ireland and Israel, and a headache for the […]
The new psychological thriller starring Sydney Sweeney, The Housemaid, is one of those movies that is more interesting to talk around than about. In the film, Millie (Sweeney) is hired on as a live-in housemaid for a wealthy Long Island family, boarding in their #cottagecore aesthetic attic. The danger of being so young and blonde […]
Nearly 100 more nominees were confirmed by the Senate late Thursday, enabling President Donald Trump to close out his first calendar year back in the White House with more confirmations compared to the same time for his predecessor. A change in Senate rules earlier this year by Republicans paved the way to bypass Democratic roadblocks […]
A mystery that haunted the Republican Party during the 2022 midterm elections, under President Joe Biden, was why the party failed to achieve the congressional surge its members craved. Then, last month, when Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) won their respective states’ gubernatorial races, the pattern continued, and the same question remained. […]
The elusive original cut of Quentin Tarantino’s fourth and fifth films, known together as Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, had hitherto existed only on one print, personally owned by Tarantino. It screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and a handful of times since. Now, after decades of anticipation, it has hit cinemas […]
