Former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made misleading claims in an op-ed on Wednesday defending their role at the beginning of the collusion investigation into President Donald Trump in 2016. Writing for the New York Times, Brennan and Clapper pushed back on evidence released over the past several […]
Mike Donilon, former senior adviser to Joe Biden, appeared for a closed-door interview Thursday morning for the House Oversight Committee’s sprawling investigation into the former president’s inner circle and use of the autopen. Donilon, who has worked with Biden since 1981, entered the Rayburn House Office room at 10:05 a.m. He did not respond to […]
Texas Republicans are banking on Latino voters staying Republican as central to an ambitious redistricting plan. On Wednesday, Republicans unveiled their proposed map for Texas, which would create 30 Republican congressional seats compared to eight Democratic districts — a major shift for the House, which has 25 Texas Republicans and 13 Democrats. This plan comes […]
A Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam was hit by serious turbulence, injuring passengers and forcing the flight to divert to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the airline said. The Airbus A330-900, which can seat over 250 people, landed around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday. The airport fire department and paramedics met the flight. […]
President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariffs will be at the heart of a legal drama on Thursday when a federal appeals court weighs his authority to levy them via executive action. The full panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will hear arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal of a May […]
Democrats in the Senate are picking up the baton from their colleagues in the House to keep the Jeffrey Epstein saga in the news cycle and stoke GOP divisions. A small group of Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), is invoking a nearly century-old law to try to obtain the Epstein files […]
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it was halting any government-initiated wind energy projects as part of its reshaping of the country’s approach to renewable energy. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum touted “four policy measures to advance President Donald J. Trump’s commonsense approach to affordable, reliable energy development in America,” including the pivot […]
Neither the Republican nor Democratic ballots for the 2026 Texas Senate race are set, with multiple candidates on both sides weighing bids that could set up competitive primaries. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is already facing one tough primary challenger this cycle in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. But Reps. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) and Wesley Hunt […]
More than seven months into President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has yet to see a single United States attorney nominee confirmed by the Senate. Of the 94 districts that require a top federal prosecutor, only a dozen nominees have cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee, and none have reached the floor for a vote. Faced with this confirmation […]
The tariffs that United States trading partners could permanently face are starting to become apparent as President Donald Trump lets his four-month “Liberation Day” pause expire on Friday. Tariffs are baked into a string of deals Trump has reached with countries including the United Kingdom, Japan, and the European Union. Meanwhile, Trump is setting new […]
