President Donald Trump called on the board of the Federal Reserve to take control from Chairman Jerome Powell if interest rates are not lowered. After a brief display of public friendliness, Trump resumed his rhetorical offensive against Powell on Wednesday after he announced that the Fed would not lower interest rates. On Friday morning, Trump […]
Former President Joe Biden warned that he thinks the Trump administration is attacking the rule of law during remarks to the National Bar Association in Chicago on Thursday night. Biden said he believes “these are dark days,” as President Donald Trump nears the 200th day of his presidency. However, the former president did not mention […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced Thursday plans to order a special election in November for voters to decide whether to approve new congressional maps to redistrict California House seats in favor of Democrats. The strategy comes as a retaliatory rebuke to Republican-led Texas’s recent proposal to redraw the political maps in an effort to flip […]
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country’s Legislative Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years. Lawmaker Ana Figueroa from the New Ideas party had proposed the changes to five articles of the constitution. The proposal […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday introduced legislation seeking to modernize weather radio systems after deadly Texas flashfloods recently raised alarms that emergency communications had failed to prevent the loss of life. The floods along the Guadalupe River in central Texas occurred over the July 4 holiday weekend, leading to the deaths of over 130 […]
Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper led Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley by 6 percentage points in the first major poll of the 2026 North Carolina Senate race. The Emerson College poll, obtained by Politico, showed Cooper with 47% compared to Whatley’s 41%, with 12% unsure. Cooper has a massive lead among independents, with […]
More than 50,000 discrepancies have been discovered in the state of New York’s voter registration rolls, including deceased registrants, placeholder or fictitious birthdates, and duplicate entries, according to an election security watchdog’s findings shared with the Washington Examiner. Among the alarming revelations, Public Interest Legal Foundation, PILF, a law firm focused on voting integrity, found […]
EXCLUSIVE — Federal immigration authorities have arrested nearly 150,000 illegal immigrants across the United States since the beginning of January, shortly before President Donald Trump took office and launched a mass deportation operation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the Washington Examiner. As of late July, ICE had taken into custody 149,084 people, including nearly 50,000 […]
A case before the Supreme Court this fall could determine whether federal candidates and political groups have the right to challenge state voting laws in court, potentially opening the door to new legal challenges against policies that allow ballots to be counted after Election Day. At issue is an Illinois law that permits mail-in ballots to be […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris still hopes to be president. That’s the most obvious conclusion to draw from Harris announcing over the course of 24 hours that she is not running for governor of California but is releasing a new book about her failed 2024 presidential campaign. Harris’s book won’t be about failure, of course, […]
