Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) offered his amendments for Virginia’s state budget, including key provisions to safeguard the Old Dominion from significant changes coming to the federal government. As President Donald Trump and his administration adjust the federal workforce and bureaucracy, Virginia, which holds a large population of federal workers, has been one of the most […]
Anti-Hamas protests took over the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as demonstrators demanded an end to Hamas’s rule of the region and the release of the remaining Israeli hostages. One protest took place in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, where protesters carried white flags and denounced the ruling Hamas. Another occurred in the western […]
Vice President JD Vance will visit Greenland on Friday. He will join second lady Usha Vance and several other United States officials who were already in the European nation amid tensions with the United States as President Donald Trump seeks to take over the island. “You know, there was so much excitement around Usha’s visit […]
The German parliament is off to a rocky start as Alternative for Germany, or AfD, lawmakers took their seats among rival politicians devoted to keeping the growing party out of the mainstream. Parliamentarians convened the first meeting of the new Bundestag with a speech from The Left party member Gregor Gysi, who as the longest-serving […]
Former Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown launched a nonpartisan organization focused on workers, months after his exit from the Senate. The new think tank, the Dignity of Work Institute, will function as a nonpartisan organization conducting research about workers in the country. The pro-worker organization aims to shine a light on the challenges workers face […]
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) rebuked a couple of Code Pink protesters interrupting a meeting by the Senate Intelligence Committee, pointing out that the group is “funded by Communist China.” Cotton made his remark shortly after he attempted to ask FBI Director Kash Patel, one of several U.S. security officials testifying before the committee on Tuesday, […]
President Donald Trump has ordered the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which consumed much of his first term, to be declassified and made available to the public. “This was total weaponization. It’s a disgrace, should never happen in this country,” Trump said before signing a presidential memorandum declassifying the information. “But now you’ll [the media] be able […]
President Donald Trump voiced renewed support for his national security adviser Mike Waltz on Tuesday, adding that Waltz does not need to “apologize” for his role in accidentally adding the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat with Cabinet officials planning airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Goldberg’s report, published Monday, ignited immediate calls […]
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Social Security Administration vowed that he would not seek to privatize the program during his confirmation hearing before a key Senate panel on Tuesday. Frank Bisignano, chief executive of financial technology company Fiserv, said he’d “never thought about privatizing” in an exchange with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). “It’s […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said he expects Florida state Sen. Randy Fine, the Republican candidate running in the April 1 special election for national security adviser Mike Waltz‘s congressional seat, to underperform. The Florida governor said it is “almost impossible” for a Republican to lose the district Fine is running for, but said the state […]
