The former chief Democratic rival of President Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, said she would nominate the president for the Nobel Peace Prize if he were able to end the Ukraine war. Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday. Expectations vary for the summit, but Trump is expected […]
Leading authorities in Washington, D.C, on Thursday rebuffed attempts by the Trump administration to further federalize the district’s law enforcement by appointing an “emergency police commissioner.” Amid President Donald Trump’s push to reduce crime in the district by sidelining its prized home rule status, Attorney General Pam Bondi stripped power from the city’s Metropolitan Police Department, tapping Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator […]
WHAT DID PUTIN TELL HIM?: President Donald Trump is displaying extreme enthusiasm — some might say “irrational exuberance” — ahead today’s historic meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite the fact that Putin has made no concessions or public statements indicating he’s willing to agree to a ceasefire in the Ukraine war after three-and-a-half years of […]
The national average price for a gallon of regular gas on Friday is $3.153, a steady price overall for the market but representative of the slight fluctuations this week. Friday’s fuel cost was slightly lower than Thursday’s, when it was $3.16 per gallon. Yet Thursday’s pricing was more expensive than Tuesday, when a gallon of […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is mounting one of his most aggressive recruitment drives in years, landing marquee candidates in tough states as Democrats sense a shift in the political environment. Former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper are both launching bids that would give Democrats well-known contenders in states […]
There’s a running joke that every time a job in the Trump administration opens up, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will fill it. In addition to his State Department role, he has served as national security adviser, national archivist, and head of what used to be USAID. Now comes the question of Rubio’s next job. Is […]
The mid-decade redistricting effort in Texas has been yet another pressure point for the GOP. It has split the party, with more states looking to follow in the Lone Star State’s footsteps. Many Republicans have backed this aggressive redistricting effort, standing with President Donald Trump, while some party members have begun expressing their concerns on […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – President Donald Trump was criticized for siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the U.S. intelligence community in its assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election during Trump and Putin’s first and last stand-alone bilateral summit in Helsinki in 2018. But while there are similarities between Helsinki and Friday’s highly anticipated […]
President Donald Trump‘s threat to defund universities and colleges that do not take concrete measures to fight antisemitism has already had the desired effect. In recent weeks, Columbia University, Barnard College, and Brown University have agreed to settle cases related to Title VI violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, with additional settlements said to […]
President Donald Trump‘s massive agenda law makes some new tax breaks available. That is, beyond making permanent a series of lowered rates from Trump’s signature domestic achievement from his first, nonconsecutive term, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. One new provision in the Trump agenda bill, which he signed into law on July 4 […]
