Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected questions from reporters on Monday about whether he is planning a presidential run in 2028. “I don’t know why you’re wasting your time,” Rubio told a reporter who asked about the 2028 presidential race. “I’m not going to talk about 2028.” Rubio, who had an unsuccessful bid for the […]
President Donald Trump held an impromptu press briefing with reporters at the White House on Monday, where he conceded that his announcement of UFC president Dana White as the next White House press secretary over the weekend was just “a little fun.” Trump opened the press briefing by stating that the United States, likely, would […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) denied trying to steer Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) away from appointing Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) to her Senate seat as she prepares to become governor in January. “I haven’t had any conversations with her about that,” Thune told reporters on Tuesday, responding to Burchett’s repeated claims that he is […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) did not confirm whether he has the votes locked up to become the lower chamber’s next speaker, as a handful of new progressive members potentially try to extract concessions from Jeffries in exchange for support. “We have a vote next Wednesday,” Jeffries told reporters Monday afternoon. “I’m going to […]
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) is urging his Republican colleagues to delay anointing a new leader as the party comes to terms with losing the majority in the 2026 midterm elections. Smith said that an internal GOP caucus vote scheduled for Tuesday to replace Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) should be shelved until […]
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said he was still deciding his vote on impeaching War Secretary Pete Hegseth, noting that he has some areas of disagreement on the articles introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Monday. Bacon, who has been a sharp critic of Hegseth’s leadership of the Department of War, said the articles brought […]
Mississippi Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom is pointing fingers at election forecasters such as the Cook Political Report, saying they “made it much more difficult” for Southern Democrats to fundraise this election cycle. “At some point, we have to talk about @CookPolitical and other ‘prognosticators’ who had me and other southern candidates labeled as solid […]
A Utah judge ruled on Monday that Tyler Robinson will go to trial in 2028 on murder charges related to the September 2025 killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Judge Tony Graf set the trial date during a hearing in a Provo, Utah, courtroom, more than two months after he ruled that the prosecution had […]
President Donald Trump and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani met behind closed doors on Monday afternoon, but no deal to end the Iran war emerged. The Trump administration is facing renewed pressure to end the war after Democrats routed the Republican Party during the midterm elections to recapture the House and […]
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a key win on its emergency docket on Monday by lifting a lower court’s block on border wall construction in the Big Bend region of Texas. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, had blocked three waivers issued by the Department of […]
