As speculation grows over whether President Donald Trump will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, the award’s history includes several recipients whose selections have drawn controversy. The Nobel committee recognizes figures in the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, economics, and medicine, as well as diplomats who help secure peace. Trump, who is under consideration […]
Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) duplicated a viral video mocking Republicans amid the government shutdown. Menendez posted a video Tuesday following a similar style to the New Berlin Public Library in Wisconsin. In their original video, one of their employees leaned back for a trust fall, with another employee stepping aside to let the first one […]
President Donald Trump informed reporters Thursday that he now plans to begin “peace” talks with Iran, just hours after his administration successfully brokered the first phase of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Trump held a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday, more than a week into the government shutdown paralyzing Capitol Hill. […]
A North Carolina House Democrat was arrested on Wednesday and charged with multiple sex crimes. The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office charged Cecil Brockman, who represents the state’s 60th House district near Greensboro, with two counts of indecent liberties with a child and two counts of statutory rape of someone between the ages of 13 and […]
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) became the first leading Democratic lawmaker to publicly question voting for Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones, breaking with his party’s reluctance to address the campaign. The Virginia race blew up earlier this month when violent text messages from Jones resurfaced, in which he suggested former state Republican House Speaker Todd […]
Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha slammed the Democratic Party for refusing to demand that Jay Jones drop out of this year’s Virginia attorney general race. “No Democrat has said that Jay Jones should drop out of the race,” Concha said on Fox Business’s Kudlow on Wednesday. “He wished death on his opponent — Republican […]
The immigrant population in America has dropped in record fashion since President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office. Driven by his promise to close the border left wide open by former President Joe Biden, a historic plunge in illegal immigrants entering the country helped push their population down 2.2 million, according to a new […]
The Internal Revenue Service will furlough nearly half its staff this week as the government shutdown drags on with no end in sight. The IRS is already operating at a reduced workforce, which fell from about 100,000 employees at the end of 2024 to roughly 75,000 when the shutdown started, the Associated Press reported. Its […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) appeared on C-SPAN‘s Washington Journal on Thursday morning to take calls from viewers, the first speaker of the House to do so in over 20 years. Johnson answered calls from Democrats, Republicans, and independents, and there was a special line open for federal workers. Most of the calls were respectful, and […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that Ukraine will nominate President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he provides long-range Tomahawk missiles and helps secure a ceasefire with Russia. “During our most recent meeting, I didn’t hear a ‘no.’ What I did hear was that work will continue at the technical level […]
