Barack Obama will headline an August fundraiser in Martha’s Vineyard that will highlight the Democratic redistricting effort as the former president faces calls for prosecution from the Trump administration. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred Obama to the Department of Justice for prosecution on Wednesday, alleging the former president ignored an intelligence community assessment […]
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley will run for Senate in North Carolina. Whatley will be in a highly competitive and likely expensive race to replace Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who announced his retirement earlier this year. He will likely have President Donald Trump’s backing after his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, who served as Whatley’s co-chair […]
DOD IG: ‘SECRET/NOFORN’ INFO IN SIGNAL CHAT: Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the Washington Post is reporting that the Pentagon’s acting inspector general found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s description of planned airstrikes on Yemen in March — shared on an unsecure group chat on Signal — included details derived from a classified email […]
President Donald Trump‘s polling is down six months into his second administration, but that does not mean Democrats have an advantage before next year’s midterm elections. Trump’s approval rating is averaging less than a percentage point better than it was post-Liberation Day at 45.5%, but the president’s disapproval rating is at its worst of his […]
Senate Democrats are reluctantly offering Republicans vital votes to advance government funding measures despite a lack of GOP assurances that partisan methods won’t later be used to slash bipartisan spending deals. However, some Democrats suggest it could backfire to so freely extend bipartisanship at a time GOP lawmakers preview more cuts using only Republican votes, […]
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admitted to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday night that he has “lawyered up.” Clapper’s decision to do so comes after recent revelations and accusations by the Trump administration that intelligence agencies falsified information to claim Russia engaged in election interference in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald […]
Dozens of members of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, which the State Department says was established to “monitor Chinese students and mobilize them against views that dissent from the [Chinese Communist Party],” have found their way into high-level positions at American technology firms, pharmaceutical corporations, academia, and national labs — sparking industrial espionage concerns. […]
The White House is losing GOP support for the nomination of Paul Ingrassia to a key watchdog post, with at least one Senate Republican vowing to oppose him due to his sympathy for Jan. 6 Capitol rioters. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told the Washington Examiner he will vote “no” on Ingrassia, tapped to lead the […]
President Donald Trump’s administration has dropped a bombshell in his second term that threatens to blow up the narrative surrounding the investigation, which cast a long shadow over his first. Newly declassified documents cast doubt on whether Russian interference in the 2016 election was fully intended to help Trump win, implicating the president’s political opponents […]
Four Russian warplanes were intercepted by U.S. Air Force fighter jets off the coast of Alaska on Tuesday. Two of the planes flying off the Alaskan coast were Russia’s Tu-95 Bear Bomber, an aircraft one hailed as the Soviet Union’s preeminent nuclear bomber. The other planes were two Su-35 Flanker fighter jets, reported Air & […]
