Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, a consistent opponent of President Donald Trump on foreign policy since the beginning of his second administration, made an explicit call for the United Nations to intervene against U.S. military operations in the region. Trump’s saber-rattling against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has exasperated political divisions in South America, with some leaders […]
A federal appeals court on Wednesday put on hold a lower court ruling that would have forced President Donald Trump to withdraw National Guard troops from Washington, D.C., concluding that the administration is likely to prevail in defending the deployment as lawful. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals […]
Maryland‘s state legislature blocked Gov. Wes Moore‘s (D-MD) veto on Tuesday of the creation of a state reparations commission. The state’s Senate and Assembly both exceeded the three-fifths majority required to override the veto. Moore, who is black, slapped the legislation down in May because he believed the state had already properly studied the impact […]
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) on Tuesday heralded the results of a special election in Kentucky as evidence that the Democratic Party is “overperforming.” Gary Clemons’s landslide victory over Republican Calvin Leach in the Kentucky Senate’s 37th District “continues the trend of Democrats outperforming previous elections by wide margins all over the country,” Beshear said in […]
The release of the trailer for the documentary Melania on Wednesday was met with excitement from friends of the Trump family. First lady Melania Trump shared the trailer on X, and it received over 1.6 million views in the first three hours. The documentary captures roughly the last three weeks before President Donald Trump’s second […]
Chase Strangio, the American Civil Liberties Union‘s go-to transgender lawyer for litigating its top LGBT cases before the Supreme Court, came out as binary-conforming after years of identifying as “nonbinary,” a term for someone who identifies as neither exclusively male nor female. Strangio’s switch-up has raised eyebrows among opponents of gender ideology, especially as Strangio […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said recent gun violence across the world raises serious concerns for more attacks, citing recent acts of antisemitism in the United States. The last few days have seen a terrorist shooting at Bondi Beach, Australia, another shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and an attack on […]
Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy warned of right-wing influencer Nick Fuentes’s growing influence on the Republican Party on Wednesday, urging a united front to combat his “Groyper” movement. In an op-ed for the New York Times, Ramaswamy drew direct parallels with the rise of the identitarian Groyper movement on the right and the rise of […]
Four centrist Republicans have handed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) a huge win by joining a Democratic-backed move to force a vote on the extension of Obamacare enhanced subsidies. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) was the first to sign a Jeffries-led discharge petition, swiftly followed by Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Rob Bresnahan (R-PA), and Ryan […]
Two more Heritage Foundation board members resigned on Tuesday in the wake of the fallout from Heritage President Kevin Roberts’s defense of Tucker Carlson. Carlson’s October interview with Nick Fuentes stirred controversy in conservative circles, and the organization revolted when Roberts condemned the “venomous coalition” attacking Carlson. Trustees Shane McCullar and Abby Spencer Moffat become the second […]
