With the 2026 election cycle approaching, speculation is reaching a fever pitch on whether former Vice President Kamala Harris will run for the open California governorship. Analysts cite the Sacramento perch, governing the nation’s most populous state, as a political path for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee to make another White House bid in 2028. […]
President Donald Trump commented on Thursday about Rep. Al Green (D-TX), the Democrat politician who interrupted his joint sessions address to Congress on Tuesday night. The president’s heavily critical comments came on the same day the House of Representatives voted to censure Green for his antics. Of Green, Trump said that the Texas congressman “should […]
A good political thriller is more precious than jewels, the Good Book says. Or it should, anyway, given that bad ones, like the poor, will always be with us. Who today would sit willingly through 2006’s The Sentinel, in which a there-for-the-paycheck Michael Douglas conducts a steamless affair with first lady Kim Basinger? Or Charlie […]
President Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission nominee, Mark Meador, is moving swiftly through the Senate confirmation process. That doesn’t mean the consumer protection agency, with a soon-to-be Republican majority, will diverge significantly its policy agenda from former President Joe Biden’s four-year White House tenure. The FTC, often referred to as the nation’s “top consumer protection […]
In the era of peak Oscars, the movies commemorated were, at worst, honorably decent and, at best, the sort of sumptuously mounted, inoffensively impressive super-spectacles that the industry had good reason to be proud of: Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, Amadeus, The Last Emperor, The English Patient, and, inevitably but justifiably, Titanic. By the same token, […]
Any movie star worth his salt should have a distinctive manner of speaking. Jimmy Stewart charmed with his stammer, Orson Welles impressed with his baritone, and Gene Hackman elicited fear and respect with what can only be described as his bark. Hackman died last month at age 95. On Feb. 26, the bodies of Hackman […]
President Donald Trump‘s tariffs have frustrated many lawmakers, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who vowed to oppose them even as Trump pared them down on Thursday. Paul, a Kentucky senator since 2011, said he’s been told that the tariffs would hurt business in Kentucky and raise prices. “Almost every industry in Kentucky has come to […]
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Donald Trump’s insistence that the city needs to clean up homeless encampments was not an order. Trump told Bowser that she must clean up homeless encampments outside of the State Department and near the White House or they would be “forced to do it for her” in a […]
A judge on Thursday examined arguments over President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze billions of dollars in foreign aid after the Supreme Court ruled this week that the lower court had authority to force the administration to make some payments. Judge Amir Ali decided at the end of the hourslong hearing that the U.S. Agency […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to address what he called an “anti-democratic takeover” of federal courts through “forum shopping” by activist groups, issuing a directive to executive agencies to demand financial security from plaintiffs who seek out friendly judicial venues to file lawsuits against federal policies. A new memorandum from the White House instructs […]
