Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook accused the Trump administration on Monday of “cherry-picking” evidence alleging she committed mortgage fraud. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Cook’s legal team expressed concern that the two criminal referrals Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte sent to the Justice Department, alleging fraud, lack a proper basis. “Director Pulte’s referrals […]
House Democrats were unable to block a motion from Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) reprimanding her fellow Democrat, Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D-IL), for the methods he used to announce and then recant plans for reelection, setting up for a final vote Tuesday. The House voted against tabling Perez’s motion, which would have essentially removed […]
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called this weekend’s explosion on a Polish rail line near the Ukrainian border an “unprecedented act of sabotage.” An explosive device damaged track sections of a rail line connecting Warsaw to Lublin, causing a passenger train to come to an emergency stop on Sunday. Tusk said the rail line is […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) believes the tent of the Democratic Party is so large that it should include the newly Trump-rebuffed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Raskin made the remark at the 2025 Blue Bash Brunch Democratic fundraiser in Miami. “We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this […]
The Democratic Party‘s biggest problem may be itself and the policies it embraces, rather than its leadership, said the Washington Examiner’s Joe Concha. Many Democratic lawmakers are focusing their criticism on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in the wake of the government shutdown, which ended shortly after eight senators joined most Republicans to vote […]
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Monday weighed in on President Donald Trump’s move to support a House vote seeking the release of more information surrounding the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Over the weekend, Trump backed legislation spearheaded by Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) that the House is set to vote on this […]
X owner Elon Musk joked about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s newest venture in artificial intelligence, two years after Musk launched his own AI chatbot. Bezos is jumping into the crowded AI industry by becoming co-CEO of Project Prometheus, according to the New York Times. Besides Musk’s xAI company, Bezos will be competing against Google, Meta, […]
EXCLUSIVE — A group of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) is pressing the federal judiciary to sideline Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia while the House of Representatives considers whether to impeach him. The Republicans argue in a new letter that his handling of […]
A Heritage Foundation board member resigned after the organization’s president defended Tucker Carlson‘s interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Robert P. George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, joins an exodus of foundation staffers who have fled as a result of Kevin Roberts’s defense of Carlson. Roberts has since apologized for backing Carlson in […]
President Donald Trump said Monday that his notably raspy voice was the result of losing his cool over trade negotiations earlier in the day. “I feel great. I was shouting at people because they were stupid about something having to do with trade, and a country, and I straightened it out, but I blew my […]
