Lithuania formally asked NATO to increase its air defense capabilities to protect European countries. The request comes after a Russian drone carrying explosives entered the country’s airspace last week. Kestutis Budrys, Lithuania’s acting foreign affairs minister, and Dovile Sakaliene, Lithuania’s defense minister, reportedly wrote to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to notify him of the […]
Democrat Mary Sheffield, Detroit’s City Council president, won the city’s mayoral primary in a landslide Tuesday night. She was the top vote-getter of nine candidates and will advance to the November general election against the second-place winner. Solomon Kinloch Jr. sat in second place, and Saunteel Jenkins in third as of 10:30 p.m. Eastern on […]
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is confident that the Trump administration will release the Epstein files after the committee subpoenaed the Department of Justice for them Tuesday. Comer says he doesn’t anticipate a conflict with the DOJ over the files, which the Trump administration has yet to release after President Donald Trump pledged […]
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) is asking the Texas Supreme Court to strip the alleged “ringleader” leading Texas Democrats of his elected office. Abbott filed an emergency petition Tuesday to remove Democratic Texas House Minority Leader Gene Wu from his post. Texas Democrats have been away from their home state to deny Texas Republicans the quorum […]
President Donald Trump declined to wave off Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from fully occupying Gaza, as tensions grow within the Israeli government over the proposed offensive. “I really can’t say,” Trump said, speaking to reporters on Tuesday afternoon. “It is going to be pretty much up to Israel.” Pressed on the occupation question, Trump […]
President Donald Trump said the FBI “may have to” get involved to potentially arrest the Texas Democrats who refuse to grant their state’s Republicans a quorum for a redistricting vote. Texas House Democrats have taken refuge in blue states such as Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts to stall a new map proposed by the Texas […]
A federal judge prevented the Trump administration from reallocating billions of dollars to a FEMA disaster prevention program on Tuesday. Judge Richard Stearns of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction blocking allocated funds from being steered away from FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program. The program awards grants to […]
A Texas state Democrat who fled the Lone Star State as Republicans look to implement new congressional maps defended the decision during a press conference in Massachusetts Tuesday afternoon. State Democratic Sen. Carol Alvarado said the redistricting effort in Texas was not just an issue in the Lone Star State, but a problem for the […]
The Trump administration has nixed Elon Musk’s “five things” process, in which workers gave the administration bullet points summarizing their actions over the past week. The move further reduces Musk’s impact on the administration several months after his contentious departure. Once a senior adviser to the president and the head of the Department of Government […]
(The Center Square) – Colorado Gov. Jared Polis wants President Donald Trump to abandon his “failed tariff-tax plan.” This comes as Trump’s administration is praising the tariffs for bringing in record revenue totaling more than $150 billion in the first six months of 2025, signaling what the White House is calling America’s “Golden Age.” The messaging from Democrats […]
