More than five months into his second-term presidency and with substantial policy wins under his belt, President Donald Trump faces an American electorate that mostly disapproves of his handling of major issues, according to polling. Trump signed into law his sprawling domestic policy bill over the weekend during a Fourth of July ceremony at the […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) will start his two-day tour of rural South Carolina on Tuesday, making stops in some of the state’s reddest counties that have been economically and environmentally devastated over the years. South Carolina Democratic Party Chairwoman Christale Spain said that Newsom’s visit to the Pee Dee, Midlands, and Upstate regions was rooted in […]
An illegal immigrant from Venezuela who was suspected of murder while living in his home country was arrested in Michigan. Franh Enrique Yonkaiker Machado-Rivas was apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents from the Gibraltar Border Patrol Station in Gibraltar, Michigan. He was stopped by local police officers during a traffic stop last Wednesday […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize following their latest White House meeting. “The president has already realized great opportunities,” Netanyahu said ahead of a dinner with Trump. “He forged the Abraham Accords; he’s forging peace as we speak in one country and one region after the other. […]
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who identifies as an independent, revealed he has held conversations with X owner Elon Musk over the tech mogul’s plans to form a new centrist “America Party.” Yang is a New York entrepreneur who challenged former President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination in 2020. After losing his bid […]
The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to climate research and plans to overhaul federal disaster relief are under scrutiny after catastrophic flooding in Texas over the weekend left at least 104 dead. While there’s no proof that staffing at the federal level was at fault for the rising death toll from the flood that the White […]
President Donald Trump signed executive orders Monday extending a federal hiring freeze and pushing back the deadline for his “Liberation Day” tariffs. The most discussed of the three was a deadline extension for rolling out his global tariff plan. “I have determined, based on additional information and recommendations from various senior officials, including information on […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called for “aggressive oversight” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during an appearance on ABC’s The View Monday. He criticized the agency’s recent conduct under the Trump administration and defended immigrant communities targeted by federal enforcement. Pressed by cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin on whether he supported progressive calls to defund […]
Washington Examiner columnist Salena Zito said Monday that President Donald Trump contacted her a day after the first attempt on his life, during which he explained why he chanted, “fight, fight, fight,” to his supporters. Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt at a rally on July 13, 2024, with Zito in attendance. After Trump was […]
Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) will resign from the House at the end of this month, kickstarting House Republicans’ search for a new chairman on the powerful Homeland Security Committee. Green announced Friday, after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed the House, that he would retire from Congress and alerted GOP leaders that it would […]
