Hard-line conservative opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is weakening, clearing his path to keeping the lower chamber’s most powerful position. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) have signaled they may vote for Johnson to remain the speaker ahead of the lower chamber’s leadership elections next month. MEET THE NEW CONGRESS: […]
EXCLUSIVE — Six Republican senators sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health Thursday night demanding the agency provide Congress with information related to a controversial taxpayer-funded study on transgender children. The study, which was funded through a $5.7 million NIH grant disbursed in 2015, paid scientists to administer puberty blockers to two cohorts […]
Outgoing Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison pushed back on some critics who believe the Democratic Party should abandon “identity politics” after losses in the 2024 election. In a speech to Democratic donors in Arizona, Harrison defended his party’s commitment to fusing race and politics. He said that people of color need to see Democrats […]
Not so fast, pardon President Joe Biden is under pressure to start doling out pardons to Democratic, and some Republican, allies who don’t share his last name. In addition to reported concerns that the threat of prison time would push his son Hunter Biden back into the throes of addiction, the president’s blanket pardon covering […]
Gas prices continue to fall across the country. On Friday, the national average cost for regular gas fell to $3.026 per gallon, down from $3.063 a week ago. The price of gas has gradually decreased since the summer. Tuesday’s price is the lowest national average price for gas since May 2021, when the average cost […]
Democrats are skeptical about the idea of President Joe Biden preemptively pardoning critics of Donald Trump, even as the president-elect’s presumptive FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, threatens legal action against his own detractors. Biden is discussing using his pardon power to prevent possible future prosecutions with some of his top aides with the effort led […]
President-elect Donald Trump has mended his relationship with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) despite an extremely fraught 2024 primary race. Trump met with DeSantis in recent days and is reportedly considering him as a potential nominee to lead the Pentagon should Fox News host Pete Hegseth fail the confirmation process in the Senate. The two leaders […]
Few presidential clichés are wearier than “Day One.” Preparing for his 2009 inauguration, then-President-elect Barack Obama vowed to work for Middle East peace from “Day One” of his administration. In 2016, Donald Trump pledged for his own first day a whole suite of executive actions, ranging from regulatory changes to a declaration that China manipulates […]
JERUSALEM — President-elect Donald Trump‘s victory could make it much more difficult for U.S. college students and academics to harass Jewish students and boycott Israeli academics and institutions. “My first week back in the Oval Office, my administration will inform every college president that, if you do not end antisemitic propaganda, they will lose their […]
On Aug. 1, the eyes of the world were focused on a multicountry, 24-person prisoner exchange that saw three American citizens and one green-card holder released from Russian detention. While the United States rejoiced at the news of the swap, four innocent Americans remained behind. Today, they sit in Russian prisons with no information about […]
