Senate Republicans used Todd Blanche’s attorney general confirmation hearing on Wednesday to amplify the fresh revelation that former special counsel Jack Smith’s team accessed text messages involving 44 members of Congress during its investigation into President Donald Trump. “Did Jack Smith read my emails?” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) asked Blanche, who is serving as acting […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday will attend the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit in Carlisle and deliver an address at 3:15 p.m. HEGSETH ANNOUNCES ‘HIGH-T’ MILITARY INITIATIVE FOR TESTOSTERONE TESTING AND TREATMENT The conference was organized by Sen. David McCormick (R-PA) and began Tuesday with ZeroEyes, an AI weapons detection platform, announcing a $10 million […]
Elon Musk has donated $5 million to a super PAC backing Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for Ohio governor, despite the pair’s publicized falling out last year after Ramaswamy was initially tapped to help Musk lead President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative. The recently disclosed contribution went to V-PAC, the super PAC supporting Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial […]
President Donald Trump took a shot at Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on Wednesday just after picking his own horse in Minnesota’s gubernatorial race. “Amy Klobuchar, the lightly respected Senator from Minnesota, is running for Governor to take the place of the current Corrupt and Incompetent Tim Walz,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday afternoon. “I […]
The View co-host Joy Behar called Darline Graham Nordone’s appointment in South Carolina the “definition of a DEI” hire for the state. Graham Nordone’s appointment comes after her brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), died on Saturday after a “brief and sudden illness.” Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) called for her appointment to the Senate, as did […]
France’s National Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to a bill allowing adults with incurable illnesses to receive lethal medication, the culmination of years of debate over end-of-life care. The lower house of parliament approved the measure in a 291-241 vote, after backing it in three previous readings, completing parliament’s work on the legislation announced by French President […]
Second lady Usha Vance is offering students a new incentive to pick up a book this summer, unveiling a prize website Wednesday for children who complete her 2026 summer reading challenge. This is the second year of Vance’s summer reading challenge, and now students have an “expanded prize selection” to choose from upon completing the […]
Democratic Socialists of America co-chairman Ashik Siddiqu defended the organization’s call to abolish the Senate, arguing the chamber is fundamentally undemocratic and that eliminating it would make the federal government more representative. “The Senate is a very undemocratic institution,” Siddiqu said on a C-SPAN appearance. “I talked a bit about democracy, a ‘small d’ democracy, […]
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) found himself under fire from the Left on Tuesday after refusing to endorse Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel during a contentious interview with Drop Site News, despite his increasingly sharp criticism of the Israeli government following a recent trip to the West Bank. The interview, conducted by Drop Site […]
Senators pressed President Donald Trump’s nominees to handle major public health programs, asking whether they supported the vaccine skepticism of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the upper chamber grows increasingly frustrated with the administration’s management of vaccine policies. Dr. Erica Schwartz, the nominee to be the director of the Centers […]
