Top Trump officials have fanned out across the country to rally behind Republican candidates with just 64 days to go before the midterm elections, but one notable surrogate has been absent: Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio, widely viewed as a potential 2028 presidential contender, has largely steered clear of the campaign trail even as […]
The growth of the national debt beyond the $40 trillion mark and the increase in yields on long-term Treasuries have reignited talks of a bipartisan fiscal commission. Fiscal hawks are urging action. In addition to the towering $40 trillion debt and higher interest costs, the trust funds for Social Security and Medicare face exhaustion in […]
At a glance, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is exactly the sort of Democrat who should be at risk of succumbing to an anti-establishment wave that has taken down a dozen incumbents this cycle, many of them older. Markey is 80 years old and has been in Congress longer than his opponent, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), […]
On Sunday afternoon, the United States launched strikes against Iran on Laruck Island. On Sunday night, President Donald Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account with the caption “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens.” The video is AI-generated. It features the back of the head of a pilot of a United States aircraft […]
National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, a mainstay of right-wing French politics, could not be in a better position at the moment. Coming off the first presidential debate of the election season, she is polling in a distant first-place among French voters who see her as a populist outsider resilient enough to be battered by […]
The House returns from its monthlong August recess on Monday, with Republican leadership looking to usher through a spending bill to fund the government beyond the midterm elections. The lower chamber is also expected to vote on a resolution to condemn and denounce “socialism in all its forms,” specifically pointing to the surge the Democratic […]
Icelanders reasserted their desire to remain out of the European Union, voting against a referendum that would have initiated negotiations to join the supranational union. Iceland’s National Electoral Commission revealed on Sunday that the measure lost by a 52.8% to 47.2% vote, the Associated Press reported. If Icelanders had voted in the affirmative and supported […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — One person died and about 15 people are missing or unaccounted for after a major flash flood at the Grand Canyon forced evacuations, pushed large boulders into the Colorado River and knocked out the sole water pipeline that serves tourists and residents, the National Park Service said Sunday. The body of a 46-year-old man was […]
President Donald Trump said on Sunday he thinks Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed is “out of it” and he and other socialist candidates will harm more centrist members of the Democratic Party in November’s midterm elections. “I look at the people running like in Michigan, I watched his interview the other day with […]
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Venezuelan oil will replenish the United States’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves after announcing a historic deal with the country on Friday. “One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuela Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves,” Trump said, “which, because of Sleepy Joe Biden, […]