EXCLUSIVE — A New York lawmaker is calling on the state to repeal the HALT Act, a controversial law at the center of the recent prison guard strike, which ended this week after Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) fired 2,000 correctional officers and banned them from holding state jobs. Hochul deployed the National Guard as she […]
President Donald Trump‘s second term has just started, but Democrats are already fired up at the prospect of the 2028 presidential contest, and some are quietly making moves to position themselves for a run. The Democratic Party has struggled to coalesce around a unifying message to fight against Trump’s second-term agenda, but the contest, which […]
Former President Donald Trump is leaning into the recent shake-ups at the Department of Justice by making a rare appearance at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi to deliver a speech late Friday afternoon. A month into Bondi’s tenure, Trump’s visit signals he is firmly united with the attorney general, a […]
EXCLUSIVE — The Department of Education has opened investigations into 45 colleges, including some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions, over their alleged refusal to end racial preferences in PhD programming. According to federal education officials, the schools may be violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by partnering with “The PhD Project,” an […]
LEESBURG, Virginia — House Democrats are in a messaging rut. They are ridiculed for social media posts, blasted as a party in “disarray,” and are having a difficult time unifying behind a message to connect with working-class voters. But some Democrats think they may be shooting themselves in the foot with “theatrics” as others brush […]
Consumers have benefited from falling gas prices in the country recently. After several tumultuous weeks in February, when a rise in gas prices coincided with talks of President Donald Trump issuing tariffs on the nation’s North American neighbors, fuel costs have continued to trend downward for most of March. On Friday, the national average price […]
“Rick Perry’s Strange Sex Story” was the New York Times headline. The columnist, Gail Collins, said Perry further proved he was “an absolutely terrible secretary of energy” by arguing “that fossil fuels would protect women from sexual assault.” Perry, a conservative Republican from Texas, was an official in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet during his first […]
President Donald Trump has made no secret of his ambition to annex Greenland while leading an administration that’s only the latest in a long list that wanted to do just that. To wit, in 1868, then-Secretary of State William Seward proposed acquiring the world’s largest island, by far, from Denmark to help “command the commerce […]
It’s election night 2008, and President-elect Barack Obama is speaking before a celebrating crowd. In a flag-waving throng at Chicago‘s Grant Park, with the happy Democrats holding up the winner’s iconic “Hope” poster, some progressive devotees openly weep while others gaze up at the podium in elysian rapture. Jump ahead to July 13, 2024, in […]
President Donald Trump has had enough of federal district court judges issuing sweeping blockades against his second-term agenda. Legal battles over the Trump administration‘s executive actions have repeatedly played out in strategically chosen courts, where judges have issued nationwide injunctions against several of his key policies. The Trump Department of Justice took precise aim against nationwide injunctions on […]
