Democrat state Sen. Cindy Holscher beat Republican state Sen. Ty Masterson in the race for Kansas governor on Tuesday. Holscher led with 50.3% to Masterson’s 49.7% when the Associated Press called the race at 5:43 p.m. President Donald Trump won the state in 2024 by 16 points over former Vice President Kamala Harris. Incumbent Democratic […]
The Department of Justice on Thursday announced plans to clamp down on North Korean cryptocurrency theft following a scheme that siphoned over $6 billion from digital exchange platform Binance. The DOJ’s effort to stop North Korea from stealing crypto in order to fund its regime includes recovering billions of dollars stolen from Binance and dismantling […]
Venezuela’s turn into the U.S. fold after the capture of former dictator Nicolas Maduro has overturned the fight against the National Liberation Army, which long used the country as its haven. The ELN has emerged as Colombia’s and Latin America’s largest left-wing guerrilla group, helped along by the tolerance of Maduro and the vacuum left […]
A federal appeals court grappled with a legal battle on Thursday between an education organization and the Trump administration over the Department of Education’s decision to terminate a grant due to the group’s advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, the latest courtroom fight over the administration’s bid to end DEI through government programs and […]
Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday that the Justice Department has no active criminal investigations into Democratic lawmakers’ remarks about their plans to scrutinize the Trump administration, days after he said lawmakers attempting to open partisan investigations against the administration could be “a crime.” “There’s no ongoing investigations, criminal investigations into words that that incoming […]
The White House is growing “optimistic” it can resolve a dispute with Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) that is threatening the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees at the worst possible moment for Republicans: right before they lose control of the Senate. A senior White House official told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that talks with […]
President Donald Trump’s policy to stop enforcing a gun law has been a gift to conservative Second Amendment advocates — and, now, to three alleged leftist militants searched by Alabama police. Grand jurors indicted roommates Levi Belcher, Anthony Slota, and Tadashi Erekson on Oct. 5 after officials linked Belcher to online threats against immigration agents […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Thursday he was “interested” in President Donald Trump’s renewed push for a $350 billion military funding bill using only Republican votes but stopped short of committing to its passage before Democrats take control of Congress in January. The legislation would mark the third so-called reconciliation bill of Trump’s […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the United States’s top diplomat, but his recent engagement with the country’s two most prominent foreign policy priorities has appeared to be from the sidelines. Presidential envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were in the spotlight during the latest round of peace negotiations between the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia […]
As House Democrats retake the majority in January, they have the opportunity to play by a different set of rules in the lower chamber. The rules package for the next Congress will be introduced in the coming weeks, as Democrats are set to hold at least 255 seats in the House and will be able […]
