President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will now allow U.S. airliners to conduct direct flights to Lebanon, more than four decades after the Federal Aviation Administration prohibited those routes. Trump hinted at the announcement during a bilateral meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House on Tuesday morning, telling reporters he could […]
The White House is having an “I told you so” moment after New Jersey‘s Democratic governor announced she was removing 6,600 noncitizens from her state’s voter roll following 400 of them casting ballots in past federal elections. “Democrats and their media allies have repeatedly said it is impossible for noncitizens to register to vote, let […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega a dictator after the Central American leader vowed to abolish elections. “Daniel Ortega’s declaration that under his family’s dictatorship Nicaragua will never again hold elections lays bare their true authoritarian nature,” a State Department statement released Tuesday said. “Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have abandoned […]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin publicly rebuked Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) in a social media video Tuesday, accusing the Republican senator of failing to stand up to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and doing too little to dismantle Alaska‘s ranked-choice voting system as he seeks reelection under the same rules this year. “Dan, I appointed you […]
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) challenged the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on Tuesday over an exhibit linking Mickey Mouse’s origins to blackface minstrelsy, accusing the museum of injecting politics into American history. Gill asked museum director Anthea Hartig whether Mickey Mouse was racist, citing an exhibit that describes the character as […]
A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a lower court’s ruling ordering the Trump administration to release Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi from immigration detention, finding the lower court lacked jurisdiction to decide his case. The three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Mahdawi’s claims should first have been resolved […]
EXCLUSIVE — Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited the White House and State Department during a trip to Washington, D.C., last week, as his successor works to undo his 16 years in power. The previously unknown visit, revealed to the Washington Examiner by a source familiar with the matter, appears to be his first […]
Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s pick for intelligence chief, cleared a critical committee vote on Tuesday as Republicans banded together to send his nomination to the Senate floor. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters that Clayton advanced through his panel in a 9-8 vote, a margin that likely […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said on Tuesday that Republicans would welcome Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) into their caucus if the maverick lawmaker opted to leave the Democratic Party. “We would welcome him,” Thune said when asked if he’d talked to Fetterman about jumping ship. “I haven’t talked to him recently. I have had […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ambitions to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are unlikely to materialize, despite his claims. Mamdani is known as a harsh critic of Israel and has alleged that the Middle Eastern democracy is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, where Netanyahu is leading a war against Hamas terrorists embedded […]
