Political fireworks erupted across the state after Virginia’s high-stakes Tuesday primaries, with top candidates wasting no time going on offense slamming their opponents, invoking President Donald Trump, and setting the tone for what’s expected to be a bruising general election. Democratic nominee for Attorney General Jay Jones lit the match Tuesday night, telling supporters that […]
After campaigning as a peacemaker, President Donald Trump is publicly teasing military action in Iran — and splitting his base in the process. “I’m not looking to fight,” Trump said Wednesday in the Oval Office. “But if it’s a choice between them fighting or having a nuclear weapon, you have to do what you have to […]
Morgan Ortagus has taken a new job in the Trump administration after several months serving as a deputy envoy to the Middle East. Starting this week, Ortagus began a senior political role at the United Nations, according to a source familiar with the matter. She previously oversaw Lebanon policy under Steve Witkoff, the lead Middle […]
A provision added to President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would require Washington, D.C., airports to renegotiate their leases, potentially increasing costs for airlines and passengers alike. The Senate Commerce Committee’s version of the budget reconciliation bill directs the federal government to renegotiate its operating leases with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) for Reagan […]
House Judiciary Democrats are making the case that President Donald Trump’s more than 1,600 pardons could prove to be a major cost. A memo Democrats released on Tuesday reports that the controversial, blanket pardons the president made at the beginning of his second term for Jan. 6 defendants, charged with taking part in the 2021 […]
The Department of Justice is suing Kentucky over a state regulation that allows illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. “Federal law prohibits aliens not lawfully present in the United States from getting in-state tuition benefits that are denied to out-of-state U.S. citizens,” the lawsuit stated. “There are no exceptions.” The […]
Police arrested and removed nearly a dozen union workers protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie during a San Francisco City Hall meeting on Tuesday, showing the new mayor’s rocky relationship with Big Labor. More than 100 workers in attendance were upset with Lurie’s plan to eliminate around 100 jobs and hundreds of vacant positions as part of his […]
Senate Republicans’ first public hearing into former President Joe Biden’s health on Wednesday laid the groundwork for a broader investigation into whether the White House concealed his condition and unlawfully authorized executive actions in his name. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, titled “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution,” […]
The Department of Justice charged a Texas man on Wednesday with purchasing and transporting explosives with the intent to attack police officers in Los Angeles during the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots last week. Grzegorz Vandenberg, 48, allegedly asked store employees in New Mexico to assist him in selecting fireworks that could be used as […]
E. Jean Carroll, the former Elle magazine columnist who won an $83.3 million defamation judgment against President Donald Trump, says she plans to use the money to infuriate him, specifically by donating it to causes he opposes, such as reproductive rights. In an appearance Tuesday on former MSNBC host Katie Phang’s YouTube show, Carroll outlined […]
