New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch will be staying in her post after Mayor Eric Adams leaves office soon, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday morning. Mamdani will succeed Adams on Jan. 1, 2026, nearly two months after his election victory against Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa. Adams dropped his reelection bid weeks before the […]
White House border czar Tom Homan said Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to increase its immigration operations in New York City. Homan railed against sanctuary city policies in an interview with Fox News‘s Bill Hemmer on Tuesday, saying if sanctuary city leaders don’t assist federal immigration officers, they’re “going to flood the zone.” “So we’re […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) urged Congress to have more robust conversations about the future of artificial intelligence, predicting the rapidly advancing technology will continue to carry sweeping implications for the United States and the world. “I see growing awareness, but I don’t think Congress is moving anywhere near fast enough,” the Vermont senator said during […]
The House’s decisive vote Tuesday to require the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, after President Donald Trump unexpectedly urged Republicans to support it, has thrust the controversy into the center of the 2026 political stage. Trump had spent weeks dismissing the push for disclosure as a Democratic distraction. But on Sunday night, he abruptly […]
A federal court’s surprise decision to block Texas Republicans from using their newly-drawn congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections has turned what began as an aggressive mid-decade redistricting offensive into a far murkier fight over who controls the House next year. The ruling, handed down Tuesday by a three-judge panel in El Paso, orders […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister said Wednesday that he will order the closure of the last Russian consulate still operating in the country after authorities said two Ukrainian citizens working for Moscow are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland. Radek Sikorski said he had repeatedly warned Russia that its diplomatic and consular […]
The House is set to vote soon on several bills related to the governance of Washington, D.C., including two bills hitting the House floor on Wednesday focused on criminal justice reform in the district. The lower chamber will consider the District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act and the CLEAN D.C. Act on Wednesday evening, […]
President Donald Trump’s 2024 coalition is in disarray, and the president embarked on a last-ditch effort this week to convince voters ahead of a contested midterm cycle that all is right at the White House. Most notably, the president pulled a complete 180 Sunday night, pressing House Republicans to vote yes on Tuesday’s bill to […]
The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up efforts to combat fake news stories, viral artificially generated videos, and misinformation online that claim Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are abusing and kidnapping illegal immigrants as well as Americans. Asked on Tuesday if the federal department should contact Facebook and social media companies to […]
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) blasted members of Congress on Tuesday night for failing to censure Democratic Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett. Plaskett was accused of being coached by disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein through text messages to question former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen during a 2019 House Oversight Committee meeting. Luna […]
