The past few months have been difficult ones for the airline industry, with no signs that its situation will improve anytime soon. Increased aviation fuel costs from the Iran war have had cascading effects across the airline industry, leading to higher fares, service cuts, and operational changes. Travelers can expect to feel the effects of […]
A man accused of spraying Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) with apple cider vinegar during a January town hall meeting in Minneapolis formally pleaded guilty Thursday as part of a deal expected to reduce the prison time he could have faced if convicted at trial. Anthony Kazmierczak, 56, appeared in federal court to officially change his […]
President Donald Trump hosted Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the White House on Thursday, a highly anticipated bilateral meeting to which the press had no access. Trump has previously hosted foreign leaders without making them available to the press, often at the request of the visiting dignitaries. But the original schedule for Lula’s […]
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Democrat Graham Platner are showcasing their divergent paths in Maine’s battleground Senate race in the aftermath of Gov. Janet Mills’s (D-ME) abrupt departure. Collins and Platner are dishing out their first ads of the general election campaign, which could determine control of the Senate for the last two years of […]
The Tennessee state legislature passed the state’s new congressional map as part of a multistate Republican redistricting push unleashed after the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the Voting Rights Act. The Tennessee legislature first repealed a decades-old state law preventing lawmakers from redistricting between censuses as the first step in an effort to turn another seat […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio‘s success in charming the Washington press corps this week has moved prediction markets, with Kalshi now showing the Florida Republican as the most likely candidate to win the 2028 presidential election. On Tuesday, Rubio slid past Vice President JD Vance as the betting favorite for 2028 on Kalshi. Rubio leads […]
The city of Grand Prairie, Texas, canceled a private party for Muslims at a water park after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) threatened he would pull $530,000 in state grants to the city. The event, which would have celebrated a Muslim holy day on June 1, was scheduled to take place at Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark. […]
FBI Director Kash Patel and the Atlantic remain tangled in a bruising battle over the outlet’s allegations that he abused alcohol on the job, nearly three weeks after its report on the topic triggered a public debacle in Washington. The claims that Patel showed up to work inebriated, among other accusations, have sparked a dramatic […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris wants the Democratic National Committee to release its assessment of why and how she lost to President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. DNC Chairman Ken Martin announced in December 2025 that he would not release the committee’s autopsy of the Democrats’ 2024 election loss, making a widely unpopular move […]
New York’s budget agreement, announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) on Thursday, established the first ban on 3D printers that can print guns in the United States, as well as several other measures aimed at gun control and gun violence prevention. Hochul’s crackdown on gun manufacturing in the Empire State is similar to that of […]
