Sen. Thom Tillis’s (R-NC) surprise retirement, announced just hours after he broke with President Donald Trump over his sweeping tax and spending cut plan, has upended North Carolina’s 2026 Senate race, turning it into a top Democratic pickup opportunity and reshaping the battle for Senate control. The announcement came one day after Tillis was one […]
President Donald Trump faces a major obstacle in keeping the southern border secure through his second term and into the next decade. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency responsible for guarding the country’s borders, faces a possible staffing shortage in the lead-up to Trump’s departure from office in 2029, one that could affect […]
New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani doesn’t believe that society should have billionaires. The current New York State Assemblyman made the admission when answering a question from Kristen Welker on Sunday during an interview on NBC News’s Meet the Press. “You are a self-described democratic socialist,” Welker said. “Do you think that billionaires […]
The Supreme Court‘s ruling on universal injunctions Friday is expected to have effects beyond the legal challenges to President Donald Trump‘s birthright citizenship order. It is poised to change the landscape of various legal fights over Trump’s actions. While the Supreme Court ruling has thwarted one massive tool used to block the president’s agenda set […]
A man and a woman were shot in New York City shortly after 10 p.m. on Sunday night in Greenwich Village after the annual Pride Month parade. The shooting occurred near the Stonewall Inn, a bar made famous by the 1969 Stonewall riots. A woman was shot in the leg, and a man was shot […]
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope rolling out a new campaign to urge ordinary Catholics to help bail out the deficit-ridden Holy See. Leo celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s […]
An Israeli court announced that hearings for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s corruption trial have been canceled for this week, a delay granted based on pressing national security matters following the country’s military operation in Iran and the renewed campaign in Gaza. “Following the explanations given … we partially accept the request and cancel at this […]
MIAMI — President Donald Trump plans to visit “Alligator Alcatraz,” the newest illegal immigrant detention center in Florida’s Everglades on Tuesday, the same day that the government had planned to move its first detainees into the site, the Washington Examiner learned Sunday evening. Trump will travel to a remote, alligator-filled part of South Florida, roughly […]
Two people are dead and others injured after a shooting in a mountainous area of Idaho on Sunday afternoon local time. Local police said at least one gunman with a high-powered rifle shot at firefighters who were responding to a brush fire in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris left open the question […]
President Donald Trump cautioned fiscal hawks in the Senate GOP not to go “too crazy” on any reductions to the spending in his “big, beautiful bill,” as a 20-hour debate on the bill has begun. Trump, deeming himself a “cost cutting Republican” as well, even as his massive tax bill is projected to raise the […]
