House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is eyeing the drama around the government shutdown as a chance to amplify his name in national politics. Jeffries, the least powerful of the four Congressional leaders, suffers from a lack of visibility — a recent Pew poll found that 45% of voters don’t know who he is, compared […]
FBI Director Kash Patel announced that he will end the bureau’s partnership with the Anti-Defamation League in a move to further distance the FBI from its former director, James Comey, who established the tie between the two organizations. “James Comey wrote ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them – a group […]
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr will testify before the Senate Commerce Committee, a committee spokesperson confirmed. Carr has drawn bipartisan criticism over his role in the Trump administration’s pressure on ABC and its affiliates to cancel comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s show. An exact date for the hearing has yet to be released. Semafor reported the […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York predicted that the Democratic Party will lose the shutdown fight because it clung to “conditions to keeping the government running.” “If you look at shutdowns in the past, there were always two sides, which were one side that says, ‘This policy issue of ours is so important that […]
Vice President JD Vance took a shot at the media on Thursday for repeating “Democrat talking points” about illegal immigrants being unable to access Medicaid benefits during the government shutdown. While Republicans accuse the opposing party of demanding free healthcare for illegal immigrants, Democrats insist they’re not trying to give healthcare benefits to noncitizens. Vance […]
EXCLUSIVE — Republican Mike Minogue, an Army veteran and businessman running for governor of Massachusetts, is spending six figures to introduce himself to voters with a primetime ad that will air during Sunday Night Football. The Minogue campaign will run a commercial detailing his career in the military and, later, as the CEO of a […]
President Donald Trump announced that he will meet with his budget director on Thursday to hash out which federal programs to cut as the government shutdown continues. Trump said he will confer with White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought about whether the cuts will be temporary or permanent. Trump’s announcement comes […]
Two people were killed and three were injured by a man wielding a knife outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. The attack was categorized by authorities as a “marauding terror attack” and came as emotions run high surrounding the Israel-Hamas war. The suspect was shot and is believed […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is holding a press conference with Republican leaders on the second day of the government shutdown. The briefing is set to start at 10 a.m. POLITICAL VIOLENCE ON THE RISE IN THE US: A TIMELINE OF KEY INCIDENTS House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), and GOP Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-MI) […]
Two people were reportedly killed and three others injured as a man attacked a synagogue in Manchester, England, on Thursday. A car drove into a crowd of people, and a security guard was stabbed outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. Greater Manchester Police arrived on the scene after a witness reported “a car being driven […]
