Taiwanese voters overwhelmingly rejected an unprecedented Saturday recall effort targeting the opposition Kuomintang Party, which favors better relations with China. Voters in every targeted constituency voted against recalling the KMT lawmakers, Central Election Commission data found, a striking rejection of the effort boosted by President Lai Ching-te’s Democratic Progressive Party. The attempt aimed to recall 24 […]
The growing border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia continued into its third day with new attacks, as fears of war loom. The conflict’s death toll rose substantially on Saturday, with Cambodian authorities reporting 12 new deaths and Thailand one, making the total confirmed death toll 13 Cambodians and 20 Thai. More people were evacuated from […]
An enlightening analysis by pollsters John and Jim McLaughlin suggests that how voters view President Donald Trump six months into the job is largely influenced by which media they rely on. If Fox and Newmax are the source, Trump is on a great run, scoring big wins. If it’s CNN and MSNBC, he is sinking […]
An author with insider knowledge of the Biden administration believes that there was no “dastardly cover-up” of former President Joe Biden‘s condition, with the saga better explained by dysfunctional group dynamics. Chris Whipple, author of the book Uncharted, about the 2024 election campaign, said in an interview with Fox News that Biden’s inner circle wasn’t […]
Chinese financiers and operators are behind a surge of illegal marijuana grow operations that have sprung up across Maine, according to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Collins has led the charge to stand up a joint federal, state, and local operation to take down the hundreds of confirmed grow houses in her backyard. Since 2022, her […]
Republicans are getting an earful back home over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files during the start of their monthlong district work period. House members returned to their districts this week after days of political gridlock in the House over the Trump administration’s refusal to release the Department of Justice files on the late […]
President Donald Trump is trying to shake off the Jeffrey Epstein drama as he seeks a reprieve in Scotland for a business and golf trip. Trump departed on Friday morning for his Trump Turnberry hotel on Scotland’s West Coast. He arrived in Turnberry on Friday night, with dinner with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday and a meeting with […]
President Donald Trump met with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell this week, striking a lighter tone between himself and the Fed following a tour of the central bank’s headquarters. But the Fed holding interest rates steady once again next week could be a blow to that truce. Trump has harangued Powell nonstop for weeks for […]
Newly declassified records from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA, and the Justice Department inspector general shed new light on how top Obama administration officials advanced the discredited Trump-Russia investigation during the 2016 election, while at the same time declining to take investigative steps against Hillary Clinton due to concerns about political optics. Now, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, a former […]
After Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) hinted she could redraw the state’s congressional lines several years ahead of the state’s decennial drawing, New York Republicans are outraged. Hochul suggested the ploy in response to Republicans’ efforts to redraw partisan lines in states like Texas. “New York’s State Constitution could not be more clear: mid-decade redistricting is […]
