President Donald Trump became the first former commander in chief to be convicted of a crime a year ago, and that guilty verdict has shaped policy in his second administration and anchors a GOP campaign against “lawfare” to prevent future prosecutions. A New York jury’s guilty verdict on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business […]
Former New York Police Department commissioner Bernard Kerik died on Thursday. He was 69 years old. Kerik was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1955. His family later moved to Paterson, New Jersey, and he grew up in the city. He attended Eastside High School, which gained recognition from the 1989 film Lean on Me. […]
President Donald Trump faces a lot of headwinds as he makes a visit to U.S. Steel Friday to argue that his approach to the economy is working. Not only are Democrats and free trade-oriented Republicans criticizing him, but Trump also faces legal battles as he seeks to fundamentally rework U.S. trade policy during his second […]
“A hostile and political act.” Those were the words White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt used in a late April briefing to discuss something Amazon was reportedly considering. A new line item at the website’s checkout might show customers how much the price of any given item was being increased by Leavitt’s boss, President Donald […]
After standing by as House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” the Senate is taking center stage in the debate over the GOP’s priorities that could stretch well into July. GOP senators are pledging to rewrite the legislation, which currently includes tax and spending cuts, raises the debt ceiling, and boosts funding for […]
The cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s age-related decline is as much a media scandal as a political one. An appropriately skeptical press would have asked consistently penetrating questions about the oldest president in history and continued to press the issue when it was clear the White House was hiding something (often, the president himself). […]
The National Fraternal Order of Police released a statement expressing its support for President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, applauded the proposed legislation, specifically highlighting the commitment to eliminate taxes on earned income while working overtime. “The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is […]
Defying the laws of political gravity, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrangled a razor-thin Republican majority to pass the president’s “one big, beautiful bill” by a single-vote margin. The 215-214 score included most House Republicans, ranging from the SALT RINOs, or Republicans in name only, representing blue state districts to Freedom Caucus fiscal hawks. The […]
A little-known three-judge panel’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s tariffs could have presented an easy off-ramp for him to call it quits on an economic policy unpopular with the public and worrisome for GOP lawmakers. Instead, the White House is barreling forward with its legal battle against the ruling from the U.S. Court of International Trade and heading for a Supreme Court […]
No one will ever confuse Chicago with a well-run city. Perhaps things would be better if voters stopped voting for racists to be mayor. Mayor Brandon Johnson added yet another bizarre racial comment to his racial history. He said black people should be in charge because “we are the most generous people on the planet.” […]
